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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 1 1 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 2: Parentage and Family.—the father. (search)
l, as it is said, I cannot tell; but I should be ashamed of myself if I did not wish that every person claimed as a slave might be proved to be a freeman, which is the purport of the words attributed to me. The sheriff, in consequence of the adverse expressions of opinion on his action, tendered his resignation to Governor Everett, who declined to accept it. To George T. Davis, of Greenfield, then editor of the Franklin Mercury, he wrote a note of thanks for an article in that paper, Aug. 9, 1836, which had served as a breakwater to turn aside the strong tide of reproach, which, for a few days, had been setting against him; in which he said,— It seems to me as if there were some persons in Boston who would have been gratified to see those women (after being liberated from one unlawful detention) seized in the court-house, in the presence of the judge, and confined till proof could be sent for to Baltimore, and from thence be sent to Boston, to make them slaves. I hope the wal