Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-08-22

MR.. SUMNERS COND1T1ON.-Ihe following
statement of Mr.. Summers case is furnished us,
says the Boston Transcript, by an esteemed cler-
gyman, and well known author of PHILADELPHIA
who has been with Senator Sumner during the
last five or six weeks, and who of course knows
something of his health and condition. This re-
port will be perused with much interest by Mr.
Summers friends, especially as the notices of his
health which have been published have been, in
some respects, erroneous and conflicting -
81 left Mr.. Sumner day or two since, at
Cresson, on the Allegheny Mountains, where
he was deriving much benefit from the cool
mountain air. When early in July he came
to Philadelphia from Washington, he was
very feeble. In his usual health he is rapid
walker, and is not soon fatigued. But at that
time he could walk short distance only, with
slow, uncertain steps, and with great exhaus-
ton. His physical strength was run down,
his pulse was weak and slow. His health was
greatly reduced, not only by the injuries from
which he was suffering, but from the fact that
those injuries were inflicted at time when,
by long and earnest intellectual labor, his
nervous system had been severely tried. At
Ter the delivery of his great speech, and the
excitement which preceded and accompanied
it, he should have instantly taken some re-
never
thought Of practising.
Although occasionally during his five years
service in the Senate, threats and entreaties
had been urged to induce him to withdraw for
a while, and he had been notified that the
drinking shops and gambling houses in WASH
lngton were slmmering with curses and con-
spiracies against him, he has nevertheless
made it a matter of conscience never to be alb
sent day from his post. Accordingly, after
pouring out heart and soul in exposing the
crime against Kauzas he continued, without
pause, his senatorial labors and in that atti-
tude was brutally struck down, beaten 10 in
senslbility. Southern men doubt whether his
injuries were serious. Their suspicious are
natural. 1t is a familiar sight to the best of
them-wounds and blood and the flesh OF
the poor imbruted creatures, whom they are
used to seeing lacerated, heals, suppose, like
horse-hesh. 1t is I to be looked for that
shareholders should appreciate even so much
as the physical organization of such a man as
Charles Sumner, let alone his moral and intel
lectuaI nature. BE this as it may, Mr.. Sum-
ner has been, for some weeks past, in the con-
dition Of man recovering, and recovering
slowly, with occasional relapses, from severe
illness. The physician he consulted in Phil.
adelphia, gentleman too much engaged in
his profession to be- swayed in his medical
Judgments by any political prepossessions, pro-
nounced Mr.. Summers case very serious. Not
that he feared any 'soltening of the BRAIN,
but what he apprehended was Il tedious inya-
lid condition, loss Of recuperatiye power,
under which MIR. Sumner would be wholly
untitled for any intellectual exertion for an
indefinite time TO come. While his physician
did not forbid a trial Of Cape May, he laid
great stress ON the efficacy Of mountain air.
Happily now, through the healing breath
of the Alleghanies, our friend is slowly but
decidedly conyalescent; and in week or two
more among the mountains, IL is confidently
hoped he will be restored to his former excel
lent health. II was his earnest hope that he
should have been able 20 resume his place in
the Senate week or two before the adjourn
ment of Congress. II has been no slight trial
TO him to relinquish this hope. Not that he
had anything to say Of his personal wrongs,
or Of his miserable assailant whom apparent.
ly he does not even honor with his contempt.