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Paris (France) (search for this): chapter 13
age at New York, by the steamship Vanderbilt for Havre. In a letter, dated on board The Vanderbilt, May 22, 1858, to the people of Massachusetts, who deeply sympathized with him in his continued sufferings, he made this touching allusion: I was often assured and encouraged to feel that to every sincere lover of civilization my vacant chair was a perpetual speech. It was a perpetual speech, which moved, as no words could have done, the national heart to sympathize with those in bondage. In Paris he came under the treatment of the eminent physician Dr. Brown-Sequard, who, when his patient asked what was to be the remedy, replied, Fire. When can you apply it? said Mr. Sumner. To-morrow, if you please, answered the doctor. Why not this afternoon? continued the other; and that afternoon it was done by the moxa, A substance used as a counter-irritant by gradual combustion on the skin. and afterwards repeated, without the use of chloroform. The diagnosis and the treatment of thi
Illinois (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 13
er my walk, I find myself obliged again to take to my bed for two hours before dinner. But this whole treatment is in pleasant contrast with the protracted suffering from fire which made the summer a torment; and yet I fear that I must return to that treatment. It is with a pang unspeakable, that I find myself thus arrested in the labors of life and in the duties of my position. This is harder to bear than the fire. I do not hear of friends engaged in active service,--like Trumbull in Illinois,--without a feeling of envy. From Savoy he went through Switzerland via Milan to Venice, but was too great an invalid to derive much pleasure from visiting the Ducal Palace or the far-famed Rialto. He returned to Paris in November by the way of Vienna, Berlin, and Munich. By the advice of Dr. Brown-Sequard, he now abandoned his cherished purpose of returning home, and repaired to the ancient city of Montpellier, near the Mediterranean Sea, distinguished alike for the brilliancy of its
Milan, Sullivan County, Missouri (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 13
r. But this whole treatment is in pleasant contrast with the protracted suffering from fire which made the summer a torment; and yet I fear that I must return to that treatment. It is with a pang unspeakable, that I find myself thus arrested in the labors of life and in the duties of my position. This is harder to bear than the fire. I do not hear of friends engaged in active service,--like Trumbull in Illinois,--without a feeling of envy. From Savoy he went through Switzerland via Milan to Venice, but was too great an invalid to derive much pleasure from visiting the Ducal Palace or the far-famed Rialto. He returned to Paris in November by the way of Vienna, Berlin, and Munich. By the advice of Dr. Brown-Sequard, he now abandoned his cherished purpose of returning home, and repaired to the ancient city of Montpellier, near the Mediterranean Sea, distinguished alike for the brilliancy of its atmosphere, and the richness of its scenery. Here he passed the winter months in
New England (United States) (search for this): chapter 13
suffering Kansas. On the 17th of November, for instance, he wrote a letter to M. F. Conway, to the effect that State legislatures should contribute to sustain the cause of liberty in Kansas, which, with a letter from Mr. Wilson to the governor of Vermont, was in a great measure instrumental in securing an appropriation of twenty thousand dollars from that State. On the 24th of the same month, to a committee in Worcester, and in reference to the recent Republican victories, he said, All New England, with New York, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Iowa, constitute an irresistible phalanx for freedom, while our seeming reverse in our Presidential election is only another Bunker Hill. In a letter, dated Hancock Street, Jan. 10, 1857, to his friend James Redpath, Esq., who was heroically laboring on behalf of freedom in Kansas, he said, I cannot believe that Massachusetts will hesitate. Her people have already opened their hearts to Kansas; and the public treasury should be opened as wi
Worcester (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 13
eral letters, referring mostly to the interests of the Republican party and of suffering Kansas. On the 17th of November, for instance, he wrote a letter to M. F. Conway, to the effect that State legislatures should contribute to sustain the cause of liberty in Kansas, which, with a letter from Mr. Wilson to the governor of Vermont, was in a great measure instrumental in securing an appropriation of twenty thousand dollars from that State. On the 24th of the same month, to a committee in Worcester, and in reference to the recent Republican victories, he said, All New England, with New York, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Iowa, constitute an irresistible phalanx for freedom, while our seeming reverse in our Presidential election is only another Bunker Hill. In a letter, dated Hancock Street, Jan. 10, 1857, to his friend James Redpath, Esq., who was heroically laboring on behalf of freedom in Kansas, he said, I cannot believe that Massachusetts will hesitate. Her people have already
Pyrenees (search for this): chapter 13
and crossed several of its mountains, mule-back. My strength has not allowed me to venture upon any of those foot expeditions, the charm of Swiss travel, by which you reach places out of the way; but I have seen much, and have gained health constantly. I have crossed the Alps by the St. Gothard, and then recrossed by the grand St. Bernard, passing a night with the monks and dogs. I have spent a day at the foot of Mont Blanc, and another on the wonderful Lake Leman. I have been in the Pyrenees, in the Alps, in the Channel Isles. You will next hear of me in the Highlands of Scotland. While in Edinburgh he made the acquaintance of George Combe, Esq., the distinguished phrenologist, who endeavored to dissuade him from an early return to public duties. Yet his anxiety to lend his aid to that heroic band of patriots who were struggling to resist the encroachments of the slave propagandists, induced him to return to his seat in Congress, which he resumed at the opening of the ses
Wisconsin (Wisconsin, United States) (search for this): chapter 13
, for instance, he wrote a letter to M. F. Conway, to the effect that State legislatures should contribute to sustain the cause of liberty in Kansas, which, with a letter from Mr. Wilson to the governor of Vermont, was in a great measure instrumental in securing an appropriation of twenty thousand dollars from that State. On the 24th of the same month, to a committee in Worcester, and in reference to the recent Republican victories, he said, All New England, with New York, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Iowa, constitute an irresistible phalanx for freedom, while our seeming reverse in our Presidential election is only another Bunker Hill. In a letter, dated Hancock Street, Jan. 10, 1857, to his friend James Redpath, Esq., who was heroically laboring on behalf of freedom in Kansas, he said, I cannot believe that Massachusetts will hesitate. Her people have already opened their hearts to Kansas; and the public treasury should be opened as wide as their hearts. On the thirteenth da
Kansas (Kansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 13
s health Precarious. his Letters evincing his interest in Kansas. re-election to the United-States Senate. his remarks th to the interests of the Republican party and of suffering Kansas. On the 17th of November, for instance, he wrote a lettertures should contribute to sustain the cause of liberty in Kansas, which, with a letter from Mr. Wilson to the governor of V Esq., who was heroically laboring on behalf of freedom in Kansas, he said, I cannot believe that Massachusetts will hesitate. Her people have already opened their hearts to Kansas; and the public treasury should be opened as wide as their hearts., he said, Do any sigh for a Thermopylae? They have it in Kansas; for there is to be fought the great battle between freedohealth long deferred, I give my best thoughts to suffering Kansas, with devout prayers that the usurpation which now treads n being asked by the latter if he ever intended to live in Kansas, he replied, No, unless I happened to find my last home th
Roxbury, Mass. (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 13
at this distance cannot defend him from assassins, we confide the defence of a life so precious to all honorable men and true patriots, to the Almighty Maker of men.--Ralph Waldo Emerson. Boston deeply felt the blow received by Mr. Sumner; and his reception by the city, on the third day of November, was a triumph. A cavalcade numbering about eight hundred horsemen, together with a long line of carriages and an immense throng of people, with enlivening strains of music, attended him from Roxbury to the Capitol. Many of the buildings along the line of the procession were decorated with festoons, banners, and appropriate mottoes, such as, Welcome, freedom's defender; Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God; Massachusetts loves, honors, will sustain and defend, her noble Sumner. At one point in the route, a large company of elegantly-dressed young ladies with bouquets and waving handkerchiefs bade him welcome. A vast concourse of people awaited him in front of the Capitol, wh
Department de Ville de Paris (France) (search for this): chapter 13
eon. visits Europe. he declines a public dinner in Paris. letter from Heidelberg. anxiety to return to his from Aix in Savoy. life at Montpellier. return to Paris. Visit to La Grange. return to the United States. of freedom and repose. Soon after his arrival at Paris, a public dinner was tendered him (April 28) by the ed there the effects of a sprain. When I saw him in Paris he had recovered altogether from the first effects own upon him. He was considered as amusing himself in Paris, as pretending to be ill. In fact, he wanted to get ontinuing the study of engravings in the cabinets of Paris. In the latter part of August he visited Aix in Savucal Palace or the far-famed Rialto. He returned to Paris in November by the way of Vienna, Berlin, and Munichn to visit Italy in the spring. Returning thence to Paris, he still found the state of his health improving. r the benefit of sea-bathing, Mr. Sumner returned to Paris in the autumn almost entirely well; and with exquisi
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