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"We were not mistaken in asserting, on Saturday last, that the Hon. Preston S. Brooks had not only the approval, but the hearty congratulations of the people of South Carolina for his summary chastisement of the abolitionist Sumner. [...] The meeting voted him a handsome gold-headed cane, which we saw yesterday, on its way to Washington, entrusted to the care of Hon. B. Simpson. [...] We heard one of Carolina's truest and most honored matrons from Mr. Brooks' district send a message to him by Maj. Simpson, saying 'that the ladies of the South would send him hickory sticks, with which to chastise Abolitionists and Red Republicans whenever he wanted them.'"

The replacement-cane wave, reported firsthand — plus a matron's pledge that 'the ladies of the South would send him hickory sticks, with which to chastise Abolitionists.' The same report records a Governor-headed subscription for a silver pitcher and approval meetings in four towns. Fragments joined with [...].

Read it in the original — Furman Secession Era Editorials transcription ↗

"For our own part, we feel that our Representative did exactly right; and we are sure his people will commend him highly for it. [...] The beauty and propriety of the proceeding consists, to no small extent, in the fact that it was accomplished while yet the galleries had not emptied themselves, and while many of Sumner's constituents were probably there to look upon the deed. [...] We have often heard of a word in good season, but this is an act in good season."

Brooks's own home-district paper — 'our Representative' is Brooks himself — celebrating not just the caning but its theatricality before Sumner's constituents. Fragments joined with [...].

Read it in the original — Furman Secession Era Editorials transcription ↗