and in that sense, it is, as doris said, part of the story of how we get the leadership of abraham lincoln and ultimately the path to the emancipation proclamation and end to slavery. that act of violence, that horrific act of violence, in congress, in the capitol, galvanizes the country and starts turning history towards what ultimately ends slavery, because it's so horrifying. and, but, also, on earth too, also here in america, the pro slavery guy gets treated as such a hero, they literally bought him new canes and sent them to him to replace the one that he shattered on the skull of that senator. the pieces of the broken cane that he used to beat senator sumner was treated like a religious relic. people wore pieces of it as talismans, news papers in the