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{"value"=>"<p>Letter from Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner, abolitionist and co-sponsor of the Civil Rights Act of 1875 to John Jay, New York abolitionist. Sumner was attacked severely by Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina with the metal knob of his walking stick. Brooks was a nephew of Senator Andrew Butler, also of South Carolina, who argued with Sumner during the debate of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1856. The letter was written during Sumner's convalescence and discusses the physician's treatment using fire and strychnine, and that Sumner prefers this to slavery and the actions of Congress.</p>"}
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