[DiogenesLamp]

Sumner deserved his beating. Had he said such things about Andrew Jackson's relatives, Jackson would have killed him.

Loud mouth Massachusetts Puritan trouble maker needed his gob smacked hard enough to shut up his nasty bitch mouth.

Don't want to get your @$$ deservedly beat down? Don't talk sh*t about other people.

Sh*t talking gets @$$ beatings.

[MuttTheHoople]

Yeah, he was making fun of Senator Andrew Butler's speaking (he had just had a stroke) and was accusing slaveowners of wanting to keep a harem of slave girls for sex.

I understand, but he was sneaked up on in a surprise attack. Then, Preston Brooks slunk away like a little sissy when Anson Burlingame baited him into a duel. Burlingame was a crack shot, and Brooks couldn't sneak up behind him the way he did Sumner.

[BroJoeK]

Brooks attacks Sumner, May 22, 1856:

Brooks died eight months later from a sudden attack of "croup", aged 37.
Sumner tried to return to the Senate in 1857, but could not endure, so toured Europe until 1859, then returned feeling better.

"When fellow Republicans advised taking a less strident tone than he had years earlier, he answered:
'When crime and criminals are thrust before us, they are to be met by all the energies that God has given us by argument, scorn, sarcasm and denunciation.'
He delivered his first speech following his return on June 4, 1860, during the 1860 presidential election.
In "The Barbarism of Slavery", he attacked attempts to depict slavery as a benevolent institution, said it had stifled economic development in the South and that it left slaveholders reliant on 'the bludgeon, the revolver, and the bowie-knife'."

Sumner was a radical Republican who ended up opposing moderates like President Grant.
Sumner died of a heart attack in 1874, aged 63.

No wonder DiogenesLamp hates Sumner!