What was the result of preston brooks's caning of massachusetts senator charles sumner in 1856?

Further inflamed sectional passions over the institution of slavery and its future in the Republic.

Brooks, a Democrat, was an intense supporter of servitude and states' rights. He is essentially associated with his May 22, 1856, ambush upon abolitionist and Republican Senator Charles Sumner; Brooks beat Sumner with a stick on the floor of the United States Senate in striking back for an abolitionist subjugation discourse in which Sumner verbally assaulted Brooks' second cousin.