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| HIM these questions "Wcrc You accitlcn-
tally called to attend Mr. Sumner" "'Elat
are your political annitics?" Did the gen
tlcmm from New Jersey mean to declare
by propoundin: these questions, that the
witness was unworthy of crcdit' because,
if he did not mean directly TO discre.!it
the testimony, he meant TO produce IN i'm
preston upon the public mind, that, in CON
sequence of political bias, he WAS incapable
Of giving u correct statement Of the facts
Mr.. bennington. Read the answer Of
the witness.
Mr.. Orr. 1supposc that the answer TO the
question satisfied the Gcntleman--i ought
to have satisfied him that Dr. Boye's politics
! did not per Sc discrr,lt linn, having been an
nld-linc Wlig-thc Ioic politics of the gem
tlcman from New Jersey. The answer was,
81 am IN oll-nc Whi@, if have any poll
tics" The Wing party is dcfunct, and he
has started off in one direction, and Dr.
Boyle, prlhapsr, in another. At least, the
gentleman ought TO have spared this puon-
dam political friend of lis the askin. such
aIuestion as that.
Again, he asks DR.. Boyle, "Wcrc YOU
bail for Mr.. Erooks?" Dr. Il. answered in
the negative. Now, the conclusion come
to, in reference 10 that question, is this
and IT IT Is the correct one the gentleman
| from New Jersey can SO state when he
comes to reply to mc--I have no doubt
the gentleman from New Jersey had heard
the statement that DR.. Boyle was the bail
Of Mr.. Brooks. lie had heard so =; and, if
that he the solution of the matter, it con
firms the view presented 4 few minutes
! tltrt il,,.r,. 1ur., l,on I
one false runners put aIloat upon thcs sub
J"ct, with view to miSlcad and pcrycrt
the public mind.
The question as TO Or. Is politics at
tractcd the attention OF my friend from
Georgia, Mr.. Cobb, Of the committee,
and he inquired OF DIR. Boyle: 'Do YOU
| threat your patients with reference 10 their
political opinions, or do you in! &c more
hy the pulSc?" Now, if it was not for the
purpose of discrcliting DR.. Boyle, why dill
the gentleman from New Jersey proround
| questions, the only effect Of which could be
| to produce that result?
Mr.. Pennington. Will the gentleman
from Soutl, Carolina yield the floor?
Mr. Nichols. lotjcct to all interruptions.
Mr. Orr. The gentleman will have IN
opportunity.
Mr.. bennington. Eshall take the oppor-
tuntv.
The Speaker Objection is made, and
the gentleman from South Carolina will
proceed.
Mr.. Stephens. ,lo not wish for one, to
l'c considered as acqicsciny in the .lccis-
ion Of the Chair, that any one objection
can prevent IN interruption of the person
speaking.
The Speaker. The Cliir thinks that it
is not the right, under the rules, of a gen
tleman holding the floor TO assign it to any
other person.
Mr.. Orr. will proceed, rs do not
want question Of order raised in the mid
die OF my speech. When DIR. Pcrrv-a
friend Of Mr.. Sumner, and the friend who
WAS TO attend him after 1Dr. Boyle was dis
missed was examined before the commit
tee he said, in answer to the question, whcth-
or he regarded the treatment Of DR.. Boyle
proper:
81 have not seen anything that was not
perfectly proper. have seen nothing my
self which | do not regard as perfectly pro
cssional."
The day after DR.. Boyle testified before
the committee, lie was recalled, and added
to his testimony as follows:
81 was called this morning, at about half
past nine O'Clock, to meet DR.. Perry in con-
su'tation. This is the first time have met
any medical gentleman there. When ]
visited Mr. Sumner found him excited and
fcvcrish, his pulse about hundred; and at
one time it was hundred and three, and
at another nincty-cight so that it would av-
crage about a hundred. It was caused, in
my opinion, by the closing of the wound
by the application of liquid cnticlc, "a solu
ton of gun.cotton and chIoroform,) which
Iapp'ied to the wound yesterday. 1t closed
mp The wound, and prevented the flowing
of the pus, which, Of course, caused him to
be excited and restless. I opened the
wound this morning, and he was immcdi-
atcly relieved !; and he has felt good deal
better ever since. am pouTticing it now.
We have given him no medicine up to to-
day, with the exception of Congress water.
We have to-day ordered five grains Of Do
vcr's powders every three hours, just to
allay the excitement"
/ think have shown concusivcly that
the Representations Of the gentleman from
Ohio, Mr.. Bingliam,l as 10 the causes of
the assault and tbe nature Of. tlle weapon,
are Unsupported by testimony. have fur
tfcr shown that the testimony Of the attend
ing physician, who, of ,all others, is the
most competent. to pronounce, entirely fails
to sustain the representations Of tho report
as to fhe scrio;ts cIaracfef Of The wounds