Just as We Expected! — published June 4, 1856

The Washington Star says that Sumner’s friends have been circulating false accounts about his condition. There has been no consultation of physicians—no critical condition—all humbug, put forth to excite the tears of the tender-hearted women and chicken-hearted men of Boston. The Star says:

“It is understood that the physician first called in to dress his wounds has said that Mr. Sumner could have gone out of his room the next day if he had chosen.”

This is as we supposed. We never believed that I hollow gutta-percha cane, which broke into pieces, could have wrought all the damage that was talked of. We suspect that Sumner fell as much from fear as from blows—and rather more from than the former than the latter.

SOURCE: Richmond Daily Whig, Richmond Virginia, Wednesday Morning, June 4, 1856, p. 2