Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-04-13
Mr.. sumner Recovering.
Steamship Fulton, English Channel, !
March 10 1877

Steamship Fulton, English Channel, !
- March 10, 1857.
You know that Charles Sumner took pas
sage with rs, seeking health in European
voyage. He has already begun to find it.
There is fair promise that the hopes of his
physicians, and the ardent wishes of all
Americans who honor the eloquent defender
of truth and right will be fulfilled. The cure
that had gone on so slowly up to the eth of
March, is now progressing more rapidly.
For a long time one of the most painful
symptoms of Mr.. Summers case, was an OPP
pressiye sense of weight or structure on the
brain, which was increased by any Intellectual
action, even bv conversation. This was ac-
companed with a general debility, and
SPECIAL sensibility of the spinal cord, and Of
the entire nervous system. He could not
walk without difficulty; to rise from his chair
was painful effort This state of things,
though gradually modified for the better, con.
tinued down to the time of his coming on
shipboard. 1t was aggravated however, by
his resumption of duty at Washington few
days before, which nothing but a strong de-
termination of will-pluck, to use a good
brawny word-enabled him to perform
His physicians have for months been ad-
VisiDg him TO go abroad, looking for beneficial
results from the voyage, and from the com.
plete separation from the cares and RESPONSE
bilities that must beset him at home They
did not deprecate sea-sickness, but thought it
might be of benefit in his case. Thus far their
anticipations seem to be favorably answered
by facts The sea- air, and the sea. sickness,
of which last Mr.. Sumner has had more than
his fair share, coupled with the complete rest,
have begun their good work For seven days
he was confined 10 his state-room, feeble, and
without appetite. Since then he has been
constantly growing stronger. The abnormal
sensation in the brain, spoken of above, seems
to have entirely disappeared; and the general
nervous system is recovering its natural vigor.
He rises from a seat without difficulty, and
walks the deck for hours-sometimes still put
ting his hand to his back-hut that, he says,
is partly from the habit acquired during the
long time when the sensibility of the spinal
cord was painful. This morning l was glad
to see him appear on deck without lis staff.
Mr.. Sumner has been from the beginning
less anxious about himself than his friends
have been. The morale has throughout up
held the physique; and TO this strength of his
moral constitution, as believe, he and we,
under God, owe his life today, and the good
work which, we trust, he is yet to do.
The great fear has been, of congestion of the
brain, which would be brought on if he APP
piled himself to affairs before the injured err
gan was perfectly restored.
MIR. Sumner tells me that he snow considers
his complete restoration at hand" He looks
forward to much enjoyment in renewing his
early impressions of European scenes. He
will first go to Paris, when his course will be
determined by the state of his health, but he
confidently trusts that he may be so well that
this consideration will be banished from his
thoughts