Note 2 — PUBLIC RECEPTION OF MR. SUMNER, ON HIS RETURN TO BOSTON:
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On the balcony of his house in Beacon Street, as the procession passed, was William H. Prescott, the historian, with his family, waving their handkerchiefs. The next day Mr. Prescott called on Mr. Sumner, and said, that, had he known there would have been decorations and inscriptions on houses, he should have placed on his these words:—
“May 22, 1856. “Then I, and you, and all of us fell down, Whilst bloody Treason flourished over us.”