...ivision of the various excuses that were made for the Kansas outrages into the apology tyrannical, the apology imbecile, the apology absurd, and the apology infamous, was original and pertinent. Preston S. Brooks only lived about six months after his assault on Sumner, and some of the abolitionists thought he died of a guilty conscience. Both in feature and expression he bore a decided likeness to J. Wilkes...