ext_13249 ([identity profile] apostle-of-eris.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] pecunium 2010-01-28 11:24 am (UTC)

"friendly" . . . like the famous incident in which Representative Preston Brooks (S.C.) beat Senator Charles Sumner (MA) unconscious with "a light cane of the type used to discipline unruly dogs (http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/The_Caning_of_Senator_Charles_Sumner.htm)".
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