<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" id="mwtA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="United States House of Representatives">Congressman</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston_Brooks" id="mwtQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Preston Brooks">Preston Brooks</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Carolina" id="mwtg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="South Carolina">South Carolina</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_of_Charles_Sumner" id="mwtw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Caning of Charles Sumner">severely beats</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" id="mwuA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="United States Senate">Senator</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sumner" id="mwuQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Charles Sumner">Charles Sumner</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts" id="mwug" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a> with a cane in the hall of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" id="mwuw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="United States Senate">United States Senate</a> for a speech Sumner had made regarding  <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_United_States" id="mwvA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Southern United States">Southerners</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States" id="mwvQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Slavery in the United States">slavery</a>.