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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 3 3 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 40: outrages in Kansas.—speech on Kansas.—the Brooks assault.—1855-1856. (search)
ch, 1857, he went home, but not to return. He died May 25. Keitt lived to die in battle in Virginia in June, 1864. The pain and suffering which Sumner was called to endure did not, either at the time of the injury or during the whole period of his disability, produce in him any feeling of personal bitterness, either against the assailant or the Southern people. The absence of the spirit of personal revenge in Sumner was remarked by R. H. Dana, Jr., in his address in Faneuil Hall, March 14, 1874, and by G. F. Hoar in his eulogy in Congress April 27, 1874. He attributed the deed to the spirit of slavery, instead of laying the responsibility on individuals. Four years later, when he entered again into the debate between the contending principles, he said at the outset: I have no personal griefs to utter; only a vulgar egotism could intrude such into this chamber. I have no personal wrongs to avenge only a brutish nature could attempt to wield that vengeance which belongs to the
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, chapter 14 (search)
ient at each visit. He gave a memorandum at the time:— I have applied six moxas to Senator Sumner's neck and back, and he has borne these exceedingly painful applications with the greatest courage and patience. A moxa is a burning of the skin with inflamed agaric (amadou), cotton wood, or some other very combustible substance. I have never seen a Man bearing with such fortitude as Mr. Sumner has shown the extremely violent pain of this kind of burning. In a lecture in Boston, March 14, 1874, the doctor stated that he never saw a patient who submitted to such treatment in that way, and that Sumner's terrible suffering was the greatest he had ever inflicted on any being,—man or animal. New York Tribune, March 18, 1874. In a note to Sumner, July 1, the doctor said:— I write a line to give you a kind of moral compensation to your excessive physical suffering. I am perfectly sure that the greater is the pain you have suffered, and the pain you have yet to suffer, the<