Brooks was defended and eulogized, and presented with canes and pitchers as testimonials to his valor.

When the resolution of censure had been passed, he at once resigned his seat in the House, and going home to his constituents, was immediately reelected.

Within three weeks he reappeared at the bar of the House, with a new commission from his Governor, and was sworn in and continued his service as before.

The arrogant address which preceded his resignation contained the remarkable intimation that much more serious results might have grown out of the incident.

"No act of mine," he said, "on my personal account, shall inaugurate revolution; but when you, Mr.Speaker, return to your own home, and hear the people of the great North--and they are a great people--speak of me as a bad man, you will do me the justice to say that a blow struck by me at this time would be followed by a revolution; and this I know." Under the state of public sentiment then prevailing at the South, it would have been strange if the extraordinary event and the succeeding debate had not provoked other similar affairs.