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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)
umner intended to speak again on the bill, but was dissuaded by Seward, whose influence with him was then considerable as to questions of time and occasion. Twice, however, during the last night of the debate he was on his feet,—once to deny the charge made by Norris of New Hampshire that he had counselled forcible resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act in his Faneuil Hall speech in 1850, This point of controversy was the subject of a letter from Sumner printed in the Washington Union, March 15, 1854. Seward (Life, vol. II. p. 225) advised him not to notice that journal's attack. and again to repel the insinuation of Douglas that he had come to the Senate by participation in a dishonorable combination. Sumner wrote to Dr. Howe, Dec. 8, 1853:— I am glad you are to influence the Commnonwealth. It will be a source of pleasure and confidence to me here to know that you are connected with it. Of all the papers which visit me at breakfast, I open that Boston sheet first; then c
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)
53. He then walked alone to the printing-office, and thence to Seward's. As nothing occurred that day, the apprehensions of his friends were allayed. Preston S. Brooks was then a member of the House from South Carolina, born at Edgefield Court House, living in Ninety-six, a township of some interest in Revolutionary history, and representing a cotton-planting district in the northwestern part of the State. He first came to Congress late in the session of 1852-1853. He made a speech (March 15, 1854) in favor of the Nebraska bill, and during the same session advocated at length (June 14) a southern route for the Pacific Railroad. These speeches show him to have been a person of only respectable ability, and his friends hardly claimed more for him. During his service hitherto, hardly three years in length, he had been a modest and orderly member, indulging in no acrimonious speech and keeping aloof from scenes of disorder; and his pacific manner and temperament had been observed. O