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Sumner was silent for a few minutes, but presently said, ‘Miss——,in the country where lions live there is no ice.’
During the illness of which I have spoken, he was at times delirious, and his mother one day, going into his room, found that he was endeavoring to put on a change of linen.
She begged him to desist, knowing him to be very weak.
He said in reply, ‘Mother, I am not doing it for myself, but for some one else.’
Some debates on prison discipline, held in Boston in the year 1845, attracted a good deal of attention.
Dr. Howe had become much dissatisfied with the management of prisons in Massachusetts, and desired to see the adoption of the Pennsylvania system of solitary confinement.
Mr. Sumner entered warmly into his views.
The matter was brought before the Boston public, and the arguments for and against the proposed change were very fully stated and discussed.
Mr. Sumner spoke several times in favor of the solitary system, and on each occasion carried off the honors of the meeting.
The secretary of the prison discipline association at that time, a noted conservative, opposed very strenuously the introduction of the Pennsylvania system.
In the course of the debates, Mr. Sumner turned upon him in a sudden and unexpected manner, with these words: ‘In what I am about to say, I ’
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