Your conclusions are in error, sir. Congressman Brooks didn’t challenge Sumner to a duel because he was no gentleman, and the proper response was a thorough walloping one would give to a sniping cur or common drunkard. Sumner violated Senate decorum first with his vicious slander of Sen. Butler.
Sen. Douglas neither did “suggest his death”, he was mere witness to Sumner’s vicious slander, and had the common sense to conclude Sumner was a damn fool and writing a check his butt couldn’t cash (which had nothing to do with slavery, and everything to do with Sumner wanting to grab headlines and act the sainted martyr, just like any demogogue liberal today — personal opportunism).
In any event, there is next to no comparison between that event and Ed Schultz’s psychotic ravings. If anything, Schultz is closer to Sumner in viciousness, and Lieberman ought to wallop him with a gutta-percha cane.
So you are in support of attacking a Senator if he is speaking against slavery?
Nothing you said is even close to the facts.