2. What was it?
• Charles Sumner, Senator or Massachusetts,
denounced the crime against Kansas in a
public speech, a man named Preston
Brooks, beat him senselessly with a cane on
the Congress floor.
3. Results
• Sumner nearly died after the incident, he
was hospitalized and it took him 3 years to
recover from his wounds. The rest of his life
he had terrible headaches constantly.
4. Results
• Preston Brooks resigned from the house
after what had happened, but immediately
returned to office in the South, and most
down there saw him as a hero.
