FTP, name this Massachusetts senator, who in 1856 was beaten on the Senate floor by South Carolina representative Preston Brooks.
This politician requested either two billion dollars or the cession of Canada in the Alabama Claims, and he introduced a resolution that the names of battles between U.S. citizens should not be placed on the regimental colors of the Army, as a move of Civil War reconciliation. During the war, he helped defuse the Trent affair as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was later kicked off the committee after stopping plots to annex Santo Domingo. His first famous speech in the Senate was an attack on the Compromise of 1850, and he famously characterized fellow senators Andrew Butler and Stephen Douglas as "myrmidons" of slavery. FTP, name this Massachusetts senator, who in 1856 was beaten on the Senate floor by South Carolina representative Preston Brooks.
This politician requested either two billion dollars or the cession of Canada in the Alabama Claims, and he introduced a resolution that the names of battles between U.S. citizens should not be placed on the regimental colors of the Army, as a move of Civil War reconciliation.
Charles Sumner