b*****d
发帖数: 61690 | 1 美帝双方群众抗议活动都有上百年的历史了，向来是相安无事。到了伯克利就发展成武
斗了。
厉害。伯克利这个言论自由的先驱真是领先潮流。 | D***n
发帖数: 6804 | 2 南北战争就被华丽丽地忽视了？
【在 b*****d 的大作中提到】
: 美帝双方群众抗议活动都有上百年的历史了，向来是相安无事。到了伯克利就发展成武
: 斗了。
: 厉害。伯克利这个言论自由的先驱真是领先潮流。
| G*******h
发帖数: 4091 | 3 南北战争是百年之前的吧
：南北战争就被华丽丽地忽视了？
【在 D***n 的大作中提到】
: 南北战争就被华丽丽地忽视了？
| b*****d
发帖数: 61690 | 4 当年美帝很猛的，议员们拔剑对决。后来，才改称要文斗不要武斗。
Throughout the Senate's history, members, like baseball players, have taken
satisfaction from setting records. One exception was California Senator
David Broderick. In September 1859, Broderick established a record that
remains unbroken. He became the only sitting senator to die in a duel.
Broderick was born in Washington, D.C., in 1820, the son of a stonemason who
worked on the Capitol. His family later moved to New York City, where
Broderick worked as a stonemason and a saloon keeper. He read constantly and
became a shrewd student of human nature as he observed the superheated
political culture of New York City's ward politics. An antislavery Democrat
in search of a political future, he joined the 1849 gold rush to California.
He settled in San Francisco, where he quickly made a fortune in real estate.
Elected to the California state senate, Broderick rapidly became a power
broker within the Democratic Party's antislavery wing and set his eyes on a
seat in the U.S. Senate. He used his power in the legislature to stall, for
nearly two years, a vote on the reelection of Senator William Gwin, a member
of his party's proslavery faction. Finally, in 1857, California's other
Senate seat opened and Broderick negotiated a deal with Gwin under which
Broderick would take that seat's full six-year term, leaving Gwin the four-
year balance of the blocked seat. Broderick's price for supporting Gwinn was
full control of California's federal patronage appointments.
California's 1859 state election contest deepened the antagonism between
Gwin's proslavery and Broderick's antislavery factions. During the campaign,
California Chief Justice David Terry, an ally of Senator Gwin, denounced
Broderick as no longer a true Democrat. In Terry's opinion, Broderick was
following the "wrong Douglas." He had abandoned Democratic Party leader
Stephen Douglas in favor of "black Republican" leader Frederick Douglass.
Broderick angrily responded that Terry was a dishonest judge and a "
miserable wretch." For these words, Terry challenged Broderick to a duel.
The men met early on the morning of September 13 at Lake Merced, south of
San Francisco. After Broderick's pistol discharged prematurely, Terry coolly
aimed and fired into Broderick's chest. The senator's death endowed a rough
-and-tumble political operator with a martyr's crown and accelerated the
downward spiral to civil war. Terry was acquitted of the crime and went on
to serve the Confederacy. Years later, in 1889, he too was gunned down after
threatening the life of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Field.
【在 G*******h 的大作中提到】
: 南北战争是百年之前的吧
:
: ：南北战争就被华丽丽地忽视了？
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