“I am sorely disturbed by the intellectual decay I see around me,” he told The Times when he retired in 1974. Many years ago, he already was saying that the intellectual life was in trouble. Miller calls himself an old-fashioned academic, brought up by his mother-”She was a Lithuanian peasant who spoke 12 languages”-and his teachers in the the rigors of precise, disciplined thinking. “Why do they send someone who has never seen me?” “Demonstrations of physics, that’s been my business for 50 years,” he said. The reporter, who is 48, passed the age test, but Miller was angry when the reporter confessed he had never seen him in the classroom or on television. He asked the reporter how old he was before he would see him, saying he does not talk to young people because they don’t know who he is. Miller told a reporter that he never has been “a kindly old man,” and he did his best to prove it. He said the trip was cut short when he became “violently ill.” He said his leukemia was diagnosed early last month after he returned from what was supposed to be a three-month trip to Australia, where he has become a celebrity over a 25-year period of lecturing, appearing on television, publishing books and even doing splashy advertisements for a candy company. “But I can still stir to the bird on the wing-to the gurgle of a brook-to the rain in my face. “The outlook is disquieting and the uncertainty a burden-a halt to my pace and a finality athwart my way of life. Last December, after another attack, he wrote a letter to friends, reporting that he was feeling “the usual ravages of the flesh.” Some interpreted it as a goodby. Miller, who was a professor at El Camino College for 22 years, nearly died after a heart attack in 1964. If men of reason could not manage themselves in a civilized manner in our nations capitol, what tragedy lay ahead for the Untied States.He made 40 appearances on the Mickey Mouse Club and did a series of Walt Disney children’s records on great scientists. Sumner recovered slowly and returned to the Senate, where he remained for another 18 years. Overnight, both men became heroes in their respective regions.įacing a Congressional censure resolution, Brooks resigned, was immediately reelected, and soon thereafter died at the age of 37. Bleeding profusely, Senator Sumner was carried away.Ĭongressman Brooks walked calmly out of the chamber without being detained by the stunned onlookers. As Brooks struck again and again, Sumner rose and lurched blindly about the chamber, futilely attempting to protect himself.Īfter a very long minute, the violence ended. Moving quickly, Brooks slammed his metal-topped cane onto the unsuspecting Sumner’s head. Shortly after the Senate had adjourned for the day, Brooks entered the old chamber, where he found Sumner busy stamping copies of his “Crime against Kansas” speech. Instead, he chose a light cane used to discipline unruly dogs. If he had believed Sumner to be a gentlemen, he might have challenged him to a duel. Mocking Senator Andrew Butler as a man of chivalry, the Massachusetts senator charged him with taking a “mistress…who, though ugly to others, is always lovely to him though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight – I mean,” added Sumner, “the harlot, Slavery.”Ĭongressman Preston Brooks was Butler’s South Carolina relative. To his face, Sumner called Douglas a “noise-some, squat, and nameless animal…not a proper model for an American senator.” Senator Stephen Douglas Senator Charles Sumner In his “Crime against Kansas” speech, Sumner negatively called out two Democratic senators, Stephen Douglas of Illinois and Andrew Butler of South Carolina. This incident began three days earlier when Senator Charles Sumner, a Massachusetts antislavery Republican, addressed the Senate on the explosive issue of whether Kansas should be admitted to the Union as a slave or free state. In one of the most dramatic moments in the Senate’s entire history, a member of the House of Representatives entered the Senate Chamber and savagely beat a senator into unconsciousness. The Caning of SenatorCharles Sumner Presentation created by Robert Martinez Primary Content Source: Story of US

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