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Once more in his native city, surrounded with every comfort, and watched over with the greatest vigilance by Dr. Marshall S. Perry, his attending physician, with the consultation of the venerable Dr. James Jackson, and all the suggestions the most learned medical men of Boston could give, he remained several months, as quietly as possible, in his own house, most of the time lying on the sofa or bed.Meantime, in this state of prostration, with no immediate prospect of recovery, he had been reflected for the second term to the Senate of the United States by unanimity almost without a parallel. The vote of the Senate was given to him without a dissenting voice; and in the Assembly, constituted of several hundred members, there were only a few scattering votes.
At last he felt so much restored that, against the persuasion of many friends, he started for Washington, reaching the Capital just before the close of the session, but in time to determine by his vote the fate of the Tariff of 1857. After being sworn in for his second term, on the 4th of March, he yielded to the persuasion of his friends, who were unanimous in the opinion that nothing but rest and recreation could restore him; and on the 7th of March he sailed for Havre.
