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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 1 1 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: June 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 16 (search)
t upon the old gentleman's constitution, which, with an imprudence not uncommon with invalids, he sometimes entrusted to mere pretenders to the healing art, to quacks, in fact, who exhibited the most various and opposite remedies; yet each one claimed for his prescription the merit of being a specific. One treated him for weakness of the joints, another for congestion of the brain, and yet another for collapse. One stuffed, another depleted him, until the old man's constitution, like Sir John Suckling's ever-darned silk hose, was so tinkered and patched up that but little of its original stamen remained. Uncle Sam passed through many grand climacterics, none of which seemed to benefit him. The most important of these periodic changes was that of 1860, when he elected one Abraham Lincoln, a creature of his Northern children, to be overseer of his whole domain. This was a great insult and a great injury, for the said Abraham Lincoln was a great enemy of the Southern branch of the fa