Because Brooks was an idiot and John Brown wasnb't. He was just crazy.
Brooks whipped Sumner's ass (and head) with a caning because his bigassed mouth publicly overloaded his arse.
Brooks was a jackass who took a cane and assaulted Sumner, Pearl-Harbor style, because he disagreed with something Sumner said. Sumner had a big mouth and probably deserved to get his ass kicked by Andrew Butler. But Brooks didn't have the balls to fight him like a man, but had to blind side him instead. That makes Brooks an idiot.
John Brown cold bloodedly murdered innocents yet you give him no moral pejorative nod? What the hell are you talking about? I called him "crazy" and a "psychopath" (see, post 963.) I do think his cause was just, but he was crazy.
John Brown was a psychopathic idiot but the PC side of this argument you've aligned with treats him as a prophet.
I'm glad Brooks caned Sumner. Wish he coulda caned all the RRs of the day.
I'm Southern and make no excuses to any of ya'll whose water we have to carry to keep this nation from falling into the abyss.
Respectfully.