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Legislature, and though the censure was revoked he never regained his influence.
His health and spirits soon gave way. He was deposed in the Senate in 1872.
The same year Grant was re-elected by a triumphant majority.
Sumner lingered a year or two in physical and mental suffering and in 1874 he died.
The physicians called the disease angina pectoris; it was rightly named, the anguish of a disappointed heart.
S. S. Scranton and Co., Hartford, 1887.
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