“We learn that some of the gentlemen of Charleston have
provided a suitable present, in the shape of a cane, to be
given to Mr. Brooks, to show their appreciation of his late
act of ‘hiding’ the Abolition Senator Sumner. It is to bear
the inscription, ‘_Hit him again_.’ Meetings of approval and
sanction will be held not only in Mr. Brooks’s district,
but throughout the State at large, and a general and hearty
response of approval will reëcho the words ‘_Well done_,’ from
Washington to the Rio Grande.”
_The Richmond Enquirer_, of May 30, reports a response from the
University of Virginia.
“ANOTHER CANE FOR MR. BROOKS.--We understand that a very
large meeting of the students of the University of Virginia
was held on Tuesday evening, to take into consideration the
recent attack of the Hon. Preston S. Brooks on Charles Sumner,
in the United States Senate Chamber. Several very eloquent
speeches were delivered, all of which fully approved the course
of Mr. Brooks, and the resolution was passed to purchase for
Mr. Brooks a splendid cane. The cane is to have a heavy gold
head, which will be suitably inscribed, and also bear upon
it a device of the human head, badly cracked and broken. The
chivalry of the South, it seems, has been thoroughly aroused.”