New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-09-23

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mothers love- wells up from that same CRU. n' ann
Humanity, artculaed in words that men cannot soon
forget. .,,; ooro mako n
Again. stupidity and sin, rabid and INSANE
desen, unop him with harpy claws, carrying NV, i
49,: uP ~, anius and enthusiasm, freedom ana
,ro q, h; feet the flowers Of talth ana Love
from that aromatic and eternal Sprue' M. IT, ,b
freshness blooms only in the huian nea ~ 0
cr1ucai oo'I and statements concerning him.
III, nf tb old now obsolete cobweb line, once sup
"sed and hoped by the faithful TO DC Chiiese wall
ar dam Of resistance TO the agSIes7oh =" EossaGh
Dowcr there is twaddle that Postum Is me order
P1on 'da,, Gov "poitcal purposes, ION tall coast
."hnbbing for whales" fishing for world-symyathy by
m eneel 10 the excrucated cisibiities OF Chrs'en.
dom over outrage when 'ic hsahes, devh
,hint of nerueratng in hell while ~ the
North sud and earnest solcitude IL felt, lest
s,sr NAV be missed from Heaven, lest the earth
NAV osc king lest the brain and tongue which have
bsid listening Senates mute may themselves be mute
foycyer One moment it is heraded to the world that
an "intelligent physician has in.lmatod that soften
ing of the brain has occurred, revealed by "paral-
yss of nerves" with "sufcriDgs for years perhaps"
permanent Reorganization being likely to super
vene Again, his enemies mockingly assert that " he
looks WE'LL "has good appetite rides on horse
back ard walks altogether seems we'll" why is he
not in his seat in the Senate Insults brutal and in
sane nucndoes equally empty and absurd, come. 1t
seems bitter then, ilustriOus Senator, TO be sadly
misunderstood to be so wickedy msrepresented, thy
head battered, thy spinal cord deranged, thy muscles
in.irm thy gait totering, thou art the recipient of
blessings and curses, prefers and maedcuons hopes
and despars, oratorial hOurshes and august
dcnuncatlons All this upon head recently orna-
montcd with bloody gashes for Free Soil and Free
speech, nov happily crowned with LIZ ID. soi learned
institutions, with bcncdictons of the good and true IN
all lands radiant with the glory of captured world
ard the aurcls of everlasting fame. Nemesis is no
fable; she does not sleep but walks the earth perpe
ualy sooner or later OyeiakiDg reckless sinners. AL
10, .ln
gcance of heaven flashes from the North. That
precious bloOd-the FrH 10 St0'n me ,foor ~ an
Imeric0R Senato-frOm the heart of all inn0cen; and
now immortal martyr of FreedOn-crlcs aloud In
those sacred drops brutalv shed from head of grace
and genius whose only crime was that loved much
loved man. and dared TO speak ms rights ana wrongs
q ruthless Cadmus has sown crop OF dragon-teeth,
and the harvest shall be reaped in whlrwnd OF des-
olatOn. ~
Some four weeks since, the Hon. Charles Sumner
arrived at the Allegheny Mountains III Pennsylvania,
under advice of DR.. Caspar Wisar OF Philadelphia,
| who suggested mountain air. quiet ana repose, WIN
nprc water and the great sanitary force of change of
climate The first impression ON his arrival NJ Cresson,
WINS that of pale and suffering face, with certain
sunken, gone look as that OF man VINO haa 1een
reduced by some great general arrangement, of
essential fever" severe local disease, threatened
organic alteration of some important tissue or organ,
and was s struggling ruth me destroying pO1rerS.
special examination resulted in the following estimate
Of the case:
Subject. aged - in the full zenith Of manhood.
Geneial normal condition Plus, III vital powers even
exuberant. Temperament nervous bilious, with some
tjpge of Iymphatc. Weight with penumn of physical
forces 200 pounds avordupos. Hight, six feet two
inches Normal pulse 16 To 80, with great muscular
power walking miles without fatigue, and enduring
all physical exerOn "a play. Habits, temperate and
regular not TO say abstemious and ascelc. AT the
time of the Vanda invasion, this state rendered
bebly morbid bv over-work, study intense
iemittng effort of the brain, the mind bent upon one
single purpose the tragca creation OF All earth
nt,r that GhnDlH throtn from
| pole to pole.
In this process loss of sleep for nights in succession
| including delivery of speech, which occupied two
DAYS of erculcan struggles work OF the 1Eans whose
record is POW scored into the planet.
Inevitable result, brain run-d0rn c!ock exhausted
innovation, gone in electrical force and discharged
nervous power having flashed forth life, fire and light
enough TO galvanZe world and startle the SIX eeton
forms Of dead barbarisms into CHASTITY stampede the
result of whose evaporation was the preparation of Il
feat whose gnobility will nauseate the world for a
thousand years. -
and debiltaed bead becomes the recipient of sundry
and divers felonous blows Of cunnngly devised club,
made Of an indesuuctable material called gutta-perca.
Immediate result number OF severe cuts, iacerated
and confused gaslcs of the scalp ana crlOstcum
| the whole arch of the craniuln crushing stunning
bruises of bones of the Skull the walls OF the brain
battered almost to fracture or concussioD cases OF
which the books record i'll numbers, from slightest
causes leaving direct blows of clubs &c: Result
of attack instant prostration with unconsciousness,
savage shock ofwhole cerebrospna axis loss of blood
from numerous wounds, a condition regarded by Il
representative of the Faculty i'll the Capital to
be of no account, 90 skin cuts" healing
readily in healthy Was general estimate
of all the features of the case made at the time under
the light of science and critical analysis OF an ngen,
nous and dsnterested physician, who felt the high and
solemn duties of his profession paramount to all other
earthly considerations? Was the general condition of
the subject nothing at tie time! In certain states OF
the body, the prick of pin or sting OF Il wasp has
carsed death Confused and laccrated wounds on the
scalp are always regarded by physicians with soctude
under any circumstances all elements of the case being
favorable and not treated generally by the en-
chened by eutures il also being law OF surgery that
sassins daggers surgeons needles, are dangerous
And vet il appears the case was dispatched and dis
posed Of of no gravity OF feature no serious
bess of Character small cuts OF the hcad soon 10 De
healed Without surgical acunen, or supernatural
SHARPNESS what would common sense say OF the case
1t sees skull battered with club to total suspen-
sion of the consciousness Of the man. ts contents In
state of extreme nervous erethr, weakened by over;
work. a condition of absolute exhaustion from morbid
vigilance through nights of seepess tossing and agony
in short brain on fire. and thus being predisposed to
diseased action, and wholly incapable of resistance to
any agency of destruction and DEATH leaving out clubs
of assassins The result to be eXpected-ndeed inev-
table from the efficiency of causes at work-arrvcd
in due process of the laws of Nature.
Erysipeatous Inflammation OF scalp, painful elabo-
ration of pus with constitutional symptoms OF an ex-
aggerated type assisted happily by the scientific sew
ing and coliodion applications conhning SAID pus, IN
cuts which were expected to heal by first intention,
and TO be of no cOncemment. In the mean time, the
surrounding portion Of ineguments became involved
in infamaory action, extending down upon the neck,
recurring removal of sutures, and evacuation OF pus,
even necessitang the puncturng of separate sacks.
Beneath this boiling and roasting surface separated by
thin plate of CONFUSED RDSE, existed weary eA-
hausted human brain, Of highly delicate, excitable,
and refined organization the whole mass OF which had
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