if they' not really abolitionist, they want to defend e war man and charles sumner and blame preston brooksfor what happened. outrageous, brutal assault and that kind of thing as they're reporting the caning. so it's a classic polarizing incident with these narratives coming from both sides. yeah, that's right. it's followed a few years late by brown's and everything i said about caning is doubly so for. brown's right. you know, the kinds of reactions get, but also the technology that's being used. and these headlines, i think, give you a sense of how newspapers are reporngind of quicfire, quick bursts information. this is the latest. this what's going on and brown's raid attracted field reporters from, many of the bigger newspapers ithe north, harpers ferry, they were able to get that because, of course, it it nt on longer than 60 seconds, which is long. the caning went on for brown's raid lasted a stretch over a colef days and then the tria of course, lasts longer than that so. field reporters are going to harpers fey. they're sending their updes back to these northern newspape fst. and i

slavery had given this speech very critical of slavery, critical of slave holders, including of preston brooks his cousins, hence the caning and. of course, this was big news. how it not be. it spread rapidly by telegraph. you know, the newspapers at the time, they often wanted to emphasize, hey, this is breaking just like on cnn today in this case received by a magnetic telegraph just showing off the fact that, you know, you need to get the news here because this is the very latest and, of course, accounts of the caning you know, as you would expect, were very different in the north versus the south. in the south, you see a lot of examples of sumner. sumner deserving it, basically with speech full of abuse, full of the vilest and most appeals against the domestic institutions of, the south. it's kind of a code word for slavery back then. so most southerners, there are always exceptions, course, but most southerners are defend brooks blad sumner, whereas most northern, even they're not really abolitionist, they want to defend theiran and want to defend in some way charles sumner and blame pres