“Mr. Sumner is the Senator who was struck down in the Senate
Chamber by a colleague from the South, for which the assailant
received a cane of honor, awarded by his admirers at the South.
The welcome which Mr. Sumner in turn received in England and
France, where he came to reëstablish his health, must have
proved to him how much on the Old Continent are still esteemed
courage and talent put forth in the service of humanity.”[140]