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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 32: the annexation of Texas.—the Mexican War.—Winthrop and Sumner.—1845-1847. (search)
ven against the measure in both Houses: two in the Senate,—John Davis of Massachusetts, and Thomas Clayton of Delaware,—and fourteen in the House, with the name of John Quincy Adams standing at their head. Mr. Calhoun pleaded for deliberation; denied the truth of the statement in the bill as to the origin of the war; distinguished between hostilities which had begun and war which could alone he authorized and declared by Congress; and refused to vote on the bill. (See his speeches, Jan. 4, March 16, 17, 1848.) Berrien of Georgia, and Evans of Maine, senators, also refused to vote on it. Giddings's History of the Rebellion, pp. 253, 265. Thee Massachusetts members present, except two, voted with the minority. the mass of Whig members, except only the sixteen, thus voted for a bill supplying the means for a war which they believed to have been unjustly and unconstitutionally begun, and containing a declaration as to its origin which they pronounced historically false. They voted
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 35: Massachusetts and the compromise.—Sumner chosen senator.—1850-1851. (search)
es conferring for two days, that the Democrats should have the governor, lieutenant-governor, five of the nine councillors, the treasurer, and the senator for the unexpired term then held by Mr. Winthrop, being the few weeks remaining till the 4th of March, and that the Free Soilers should have the senator for the full term of six years from the 4th of March, and also the other State officers; and this arrangement was approved unanimously by the two parties. The candidates presented by either p4th of March, and also the other State officers; and this arrangement was approved unanimously by the two parties. The candidates presented by either party were to be approved by the other; and this approval was unhesitatingly given, except in the case of the senator for the full term. The Free Soilers in caucus, January 7, nominated Sumner by a ballot in which he received eighty-four out of eighty-five votes. E. L. Keyes, giving figures slightly different, said, in a letter to him communicating the result We have just taken the vote by ballot for senator, and you are the man. For Charles Sumner, 82; others, 0. We have sworn to stand by you
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 38: repeal of the Missouri Compromise.—reply to Butler and Mason.—the Republican Party.—address on Granville Sharp.—friendly correspondence.—1853-1854. (search)
his favorite epithet, the abolition confederates. Springfield Republican, March 8. Just before five on the morning of March 4, after a continuous session of seventeen hours, the bill passed the Senate by a vote of thirty-seven yeas to fourteen naell considered paper advising as to methods of resistance. Commonwealth, February 20, March 7; New York Evening Post, March 4. The Legislature, then in session, by a vote unanimous in the Senate and with only few dissents in the House, recorded ton Traveller, March 20. The Evening Post, March 8. was severe in its criticisms upon Everett. See also dates of March 3, 4, 17; April 10, 11, 15; May 20, 23. The Springfield Republican, March 20 and May 20, noted the general dissatisfaction withgly antislavery. The danger now is that the Administration will make use of the present rump Congress, which lasts till March 4, to consummate its mischief. The present predicament of England and France, already occupied by the war with Russia, is
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 40: outrages in Kansas.—speech on Kansas.—the Brooks assault.—1855-1856. (search)
dispute, it would be impossible to maintain the validity of that legislature without self-stultification. The slavemongers are very angry with Wilson,—all which is to his credit. It shows that he has done his work. To Theodore Parker, February 25:— Wilson has earned his senatorship. He has struck a hard blow, and made them all very angry. It was the great event of his life. Circumstances cast upon him the office of answering Toucey, and he did it with effect. To John Jay, March 4:— I have watched closely the questions between us and England, Concerning Central America and an alleged violation of our neutrality laws. and never at any moment have they seemed to me to have any vitality. I have thought it a mistake on the part of Seward to take part in them, and thus help magnify them, or at least draw to them public attention, which is precisely what the Administration desires. There is no honesty in the way in which these questions have been pressed. The o<
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 41: search for health.—journey to Europe.—continued disability.—1857-1858. (search)
were accessible in Washington; private collections in Philadelphia, New York, Boston, and Cambridge were opened to him; he passed days in the Astor Library ; Sumner wrote to Longfellow, March 3: Each day I go to the Astor Library, which is as fascinating as Boccaccio's garden, and wandering in the beautiful, well-arranged alcoves, every book tells its tale, and every hour is more than a Decameron. It is a most charming retreat. He missed here an old friend of whom he wrote to Dr. Howe, March 4: Poor Cogswell I he has been obliged to leave for the present. The hand of death seems to be upon him. It is he who is really the fundator perficiens of this beautiful library. Dr. Cogswell, though resigning his place as superintendent of the Astor Library, lived till 1871. Ante, vol. II. pp. 130, 131, 141, 143, 145, 147, 172, 185. but the richest treasures of the kind he found in the library of Harvard College, where under the guidance of Dr. Louis Thies he went through the remarkable G
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, chapter 14 (search)
ept up at Montpellier, under the immediate care of Dr. Crouzet, the treatment prescribed by Dr. Brown-Sequard,— poisons for medicines and cupping along the spine (ventouses seches),—painful, but, as he wrote, preferable to fire. The tranquillity and separation from political excitement were salutary, and he really made progress; but the end was still uncertain. Never were books more a refuge and a solace,—perfugium ac solatium; and they ministered to recovery. He wrote to E. L. Pierce, March 4:— During my winter solitude here, not a word from you. I hope, notwithstanding, that you have not ceased to think of me with your early kindness. my life here has been of the greatest tranquillity; never did patient surrender himself more completely to the most assured means for the recovery of his health. I have spared nothing of effort, and have shrunk from no trial or pain. Some fifteen hours out of the daily twenty-four I have passed on my back, and have always begun the day w