...Carolina Senator Andrew Butler to Don Quixote. The senator from South Carolina has read many books on chivalry, and believes himself a chivalrous knight, with sentiments of honor and courage. Of course, be has chosen a mistress to whom he has made his vows, and who, though ug1y to others, is a1ways love1y...

...Andrew F. Butler of South Carolina, He called Butler the Don Quixote of slavery; he also said Butler "has chosen a mistress to whom he has made his vows,...though ugly to others, is always lovely to him; though polhtted in the sight of the world. is chaste in his sight. 1 mean the harlot Slavery." Two days later...

...Andrew F. Butler of South Carolina. He called Butler the Don Quixote of slavery; he also said Butler "has chosen a mistress to whom he has made his vows, and who, though ugly to odiers, is always lovely to him; though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight....

...(1890). 25Cong Globe, 25th Cong, 2d Sess 200. 26Id. 27Id at 206. 285 Stat 318-19, § 2 (Feb 20, 1839). believes himself a chivalrous knight, with sentiments...who, though ugly to others, is always lovely to him; ... I mean the harlot, Slavery.29 Consistent with his own conception of chivalry, South Carolina Representative...

...animosity" that he had to be shown up for who he really was. And so Sumner exposed him as an old man "who has chosen a mistress to whom he has made his vows, and who . . . though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight— I mean the harlot Slavery." The next...

...Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner made disparaging remarks about his South Carolina colleague Andrew Butler: The Senator from South Carolina has read many books of chivalry, and 24 The last relevant entry in the Globe was on July 4, when the subject was tabled. The House adjourned...

...committed the unpardonable sin, in Sumner's eyes, of defending the pro-slavery government in Kansas. "The Senator from South Carolina has read many books...chivalrous knight, with sentiments of honor and courage," Sumner intoned. "Of course he has chosen a mistress to whom he has made his vows and who, although...

...rushed "forward in the very ecstasy of madness," having "chosen a mistress," that "harlot, slavery, ... to whom he has made his vows, and who, though ugly to others, is always lovely to him." This humiliating language aroused universal southern rage. Whether Southerners wished to perpetuate...

...knight-errant Don Quixote. Like the deluded protagonist of the Cervantes novel, he observed, Butler had "read many books of chivalry, and believes himself...chivalrous knight, with sentiments of honor and courage." However, Butler had chosen an even more morally revolting mistress than Don Quixote: "The harlot Slavery...

...for insult and ridicule was Andrew P. Butler (D-SC). Sumner described Butler as "Don Quixote who had chosen a mistress to whom he has made his vows, and who . . . though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight - I mean the harlot slavery." Congressman...