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[328] but I am under medical treatment, with the doctor at my house twice a day, the last time to inject under the skin morphine and strychnine. This vacation I give to the doctor reluctantly but necessarily. I long to be strong, that I may vindicate my resolution, which can be done against all assault. Twice before have I offered it with the applause of Gen. Scott and Gen. Robert Anderson.

Faithfully yours,


The following letter to Mr. T. A. Smith also exhibits his feelings on the battle-flag resolution:--

Washington, 27th Dec., 1872.
My dear sir,--I thank you sincerely for the kind, good letter you have written me. Never did I deserve better of Massachusetts than now; for never did I represent so completely that high civilization which is the pride of our beloved Commonwealth. Thrice before, once in 1862, I offered the same proposition. I received the applause of Gen. Scott and Gen. Robert Anderson. Accept my best wishes, and believe me, my dear sir,

Sincerely yours,


To his old college friend the Hon. G. W. Warren, who visited him in January, 1873, he said, “Since the assault upon me in 1856, I have never been entirely well; and just now I am feeling the painful effects more than usual.” At that time Chief-Justice Chase, then quite ill, came in, and afterwards Mr. Agassiz. The conversation turning

B. B. Russell, 1874.

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