The daily and hourly reports concerning the condition of Sumner are all very strange and funny. They lead us to believe the Abolition wretch, with his Abolition physicians as accomplices, is playing possum. We never believed Sumner was hurt enough to take to his bed at all.
Original passage & context
"The daily and hourly reports from Washington concerning the condition of Sumner, are all very strange and funny, and lead us to believe that the Abolition wretch, with his Abolition physicians as accomplices in the trick, is playing possum. [...] Now, for our part, we never have believed that Sumner was sufficiently hurt to make it necessary for him to take to his bed at all."
The injury-denial genre: Sumner as malingering fraud, his doctors as accomplices. (Sumner did not return to the Senate for three years.) The Whig's famous 'A glorious deed!' line could not be located in any fetchable primary this pass and is not used. Fragments joined with [...].
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