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of people, who rent the air with enthusiastic acclamations.
With his widowed mother he appeared at the parlor window, and was again received with cheers of parting, when the multitude retired, and he himself sought that repose which his feeble system, after the demonstrations of the day, demanded.
His injuries from the assault of Mr. Brooks were much more serious than he at first anticipated.
For several months he remained at home, under the treatment of Dr. Marshall S. Perry, and the unremitting care of his affectionate mother.
He found, however, strength to dictate several 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
B. B. Russell, 1874.
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