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| − | The Battle of Little Bighorn was fought on June 25, 1876 in Montana. The Serial Set includes an English translation of a narrative account of the battle by Red Horse, a Sioux Chief who participated in the event, with accompanying drawings. In his own words, here is Red Horse:
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| − | Five springs ago, I with many Sioux Indians, took down and packed up our tipis and moved from the Cheyenne River to the Rosebud River where we camped a few days; then took down and packed up our lodges and moved to the Little Bighorn River and pitched our lodges with the large camp of Sioux…
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| − | I was a Sioux chief in the council lodge. My lodge was pitched in the center of the camp. The day of the attack I and four women were a short distance from the camp digging wild turnips. Suddenly one of the women attracted my attention to a cloud of dust rising a short distance from camp. I soon saw that the soldiers were charging the camp...
| + | On September 9, 2009 Representative Joe Wilson (R-SC) interrupted a speech by President Barack Obama by shouting “You lie!” when President Obama stated that his plans for health insurance reform would not provide benefits to illegal immigrants. Everyone was shocked at the lack of civility, but has behavior in Congress always been civil in the past? |
| − | The soldiers came on the trail made by the Sioux camp in moving, and crossed the Little Bighorn River above where the Sioux crossed, and attacked the lodges of the Uncpapas, farthest up the river. The women and children ran down the Little Bighorn River a short distance into a ravine. The soldiers set fire to the lodges. All the Sioux men charged the soldiers and drive them in confusion across the Little Bighorn River, which was very rapid , and several soldiers were drowned in it. On a hill the soldiers stopped and the Sioux surrounded them. A Sioux man came and said that a different party of soldiers had all the women and children prisoners. Like a whirlwind the word went around, and the Sioux all heard it and left the soldiers on the hill and went quickly to save the women and children...
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| + | Possibly the most egregious example of uncivil behavior in the Capitol occurred on May 22, 1856, when Representative Preston Brooks (D-SC) approached Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts and, according to a House report, “assaulted him with considerable violence, striking him numerous blows on or about the head with a walking stick, which cut his head and disabled him for the time being from attending to his duties in the Senate.” Brooks acted in response to a speech Sumner had made a few days before criticizing slavery and specifically deriding the pro-slavery views of Senator Butler of South Carolina, a relation of Representative Brooks. Senator Sumner was sitting at his desk writing when the attack began. “Stunned and blinded by the first blow, Mr. Sumner made several ineffectual efforts to rise, and finally succeeded by wrenching his desk from its fastenings. The blows were repeated by Mr. Brooks with great rapidity and extreme violence, while Mr. Sumner, almost unconscious, made further efforts of self defense, until he fell to the floor under attack, bleeding and powerless.” |
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| | + | According to the committee print Thirty Minutes of Senate History, the House failed to censure Brooks who subsequently resigned, was reelected and died shortly thereafter at age thirty seven. The nation, “suffering from the breakdown of reasoned discourse that this event symbolized, plunged towards the catastrophe of civil war.” |
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| | + | On June 16, 1992, Senator Robert Byrd said, “Anyone really wanting a quick insight into the decline of cultured, reasoned discourse in our country today, or wanting to witness the state of culture itself, need only to flip from one channel to the next on the television remote control.” |
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| − | Annual report of Bureau of Ethnology, 1888-89, Serial Set Digital Collection, 3134 H.misdoc.116, October 1, 1889
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“Reasoned Discourse”
On September 9, 2009 Representative Joe Wilson (R-SC) interrupted a speech by President Barack Obama by shouting “You lie!” when President Obama stated that his plans for health insurance reform would not provide benefits to illegal immigrants. Everyone was shocked at the lack of civility, but has behavior in Congress always been civil in the past?
Possibly the most egregious example of uncivil behavior in the Capitol occurred on May 22, 1856, when Representative Preston Brooks (D-SC) approached Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts and, according to a House report, “assaulted him with considerable violence, striking him numerous blows on or about the head with a walking stick, which cut his head and disabled him for the time being from attending to his duties in the Senate.” Brooks acted in response to a speech Sumner had made a few days before criticizing slavery and specifically deriding the pro-slavery views of Senator Butler of South Carolina, a relation of Representative Brooks. Senator Sumner was sitting at his desk writing when the attack began. “Stunned and blinded by the first blow, Mr. Sumner made several ineffectual efforts to rise, and finally succeeded by wrenching his desk from its fastenings. The blows were repeated by Mr. Brooks with great rapidity and extreme violence, while Mr. Sumner, almost unconscious, made further efforts of self defense, until he fell to the floor under attack, bleeding and powerless.”
According to the committee print Thirty Minutes of Senate History, the House failed to censure Brooks who subsequently resigned, was reelected and died shortly thereafter at age thirty seven. The nation, “suffering from the breakdown of reasoned discourse that this event symbolized, plunged towards the catastrophe of civil war.”
On June 16, 1992, Senator Robert Byrd said, “Anyone really wanting a quick insight into the decline of cultured, reasoned discourse in our country today, or wanting to witness the state of culture itself, need only to flip from one channel to the next on the television remote control.”
LexisNexis Congressional is an excellent starting place for anyone wanting to understand both sides of every issue and form their own opinions based on reason and fact.
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