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Brooks was accompanied by [fellow South Carolina Congressman Laurence] Keitt ...

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Several other senators attempted to help Sumner, but were blocked by Keitt who was holding a pistol and shouting "Let them be!"

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(Keitt would be censured for his actions and later died of wounds in 1864 during the US Civil War.)

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Keitt further declared "Universal equality was not bestowed by the Almighty and cannot be created by human law."

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Keitt argued in the mid-19th century, as Abolitionist ideas began to gain purchase in the deep south "and the universe becomes a dead sea."

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The only questionpertaining to the fourth, Benjamin “Bluff Ben” Wade of Ohio, was whether, in his intercourse with Fire Eaters and border statesquires, he could be persuaded to conduct himself with a civility becoming his office, or whether he would insist, like PrestonBrooks and Laurence Keitt, on leaving blood on the Senate floor.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

Preston Brooks of South Carolina, aided by fellow Southerners Laurence Keitt and Henry Edmondson,fell upon Sumner on the Senate floor, and Brooks beat him senseless with a cane.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

Her friend Laurence Keitt went off with his regiment,the 20th South Carolina, closely followed by another friend, John Hugh Means.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

Preston Brooks of South Carolina, aided by fellow Southerners Laurence Keitt and Henry Edmondson,fell upon Sumner on the Senate floor, and Brooks beat him senseless with a cane.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

Her friend Laurence Keitt went off with his regiment,the 20th South Carolina, closely followed by another friend, John Hugh Means.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007