Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Mr. Sumner” in chapter 14 of Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career.:

...or, that, if they could not have a private interview, they would cut his throat before another night. Messrs. Burlingame and Sherman remained as a guard until the next morning. The friends of Mr. Sumner were much alarmed; and among others G. B. Weston thus wrote to him from Duxbury, Mass., I am ready to shoulder my musket, and march to the Capitol, and there sacrifice my life in defence of free spee...
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