Further inflamed sectional passions over the
institution of slavery and its future in the Republic.
Brooks, a <span>Democrat<span>, was an intense supporter of servitude and states' rights.
He is essentially associated with his May 22, 1856, ambush upon abolitionist
and Republican Senator Charles Sumner; Brooks beat Sumner with a stick on the
floor of the United States Senate in striking back for an abolitionist
subjugation discourse in which Sumner verbally assaulted Brooks' second cousin.</span></span>
The Fourteen Points constituted the proposal exposed by US President Woodrow Wilson, in an speech delivered in 1918, while the peace terms after WWI were negotiated.
In this proposal, Wilson included several domestic progressive principle,s, which he translated into foreign policy (for example: free trade, open agreements, democracy or self-determination). His viewpoints were considered too optimistic and inapplicable in Europe, where the atmosphere was not peaceful at all yet.
<span>In the state of nature</span>
Franklin stove, Mail order, and the lighting rod