-These Political Cartoons Depicting Attacks on Senator Thomas Hart Benton

-These political cartoons depicting attacks on Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri (top) and Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts (bottom) by Southern politicians indicate that events in Congress in the 1850s provide evidence of the .

A) fervent passions about slavery that made it difficult to find compromise
B) Southern tendency toward brutality
C) proclivity toward violence that made the Civil War inevitable
D) weakness of antislavery Northerners