The Senate

The SenateFor 180 Years, the American people have struggled forward with their Congress. They struggled through the corrupt days of Daniel Webster--when the great orator was so drunk that he had to hold onto his desk to speak. They struggled through those bitter days when Representative Preston S. Brooks of South Carolina strode over to the Senate floor and so severely beat up Senator Charles. Sumner of Massachusetts, the abolitionist, that it took him three years to recover; the time when Senat...