July 4, 1856<\/p>\n
Here is a letter to Brooks, conveying from its admiring signers, the gift of a golden cane, “in consequence of your recent chastisement of the Senator from Massachusetts”.\u00a0 A grateful response from Brooks, says in part, “The act which you are pleased to commend was the result of a sense of duty – a duty which either of my colleagues would have performed, had they been in my precise situation.\u00a0 I accept the Palmetto cane as an evidence of the generosity of my friends in Charleston, and not of any merit of my own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
July 4, 1856 Here is a letter to Brooks, conveying from its admiring signers, the gift of a golden cane, “in consequence of your recent chastisement of the Senator from…<\/p>\n