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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)
is so far restored that a stranger would not know that I am still an invalid. The spinal cord continues morbidly sensitive, involving the whole back and shoulders, and finally the brain, from which it all proceeds. Nothing but time and repose will complete my restoration. I had hoped to be in my seat before now; but physicians and friends conspire to hold me back. But just so soon as this session expires I leave for Europe. Sumner's re-election was assured even without the event of May, 1856. The Know Nothing party was dissolving, and its voters in Massachusetts, among whom the antislavery sentiment had always predominated over the American, were ranging themselves with the Republicans in the national election. The popular inspiration in favor of supporting the Republican leaders was universal. The slavery question and the contest in Kansas had become the vital issue in the public mind. The repeal of the Missouri prohibition had changed altogether the position of antislave