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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)
n The position and duties of the merchant, illustrated by the life of Granville Sharp. He was received with enthusiasm by the audience which filled Tremont Temple. The Liberator, November 17; Boston Telegraph, November 14. The lecture, though given in a literary course, had, as usual with him, a moral and political aim,—to stimulate peaceable and lawful resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act in imitation of the British philanthropist, whose antislavery labors, notably in the liberation of Somerset, in connection with the opposition he encountered from merchants and lawyers, suggested parallels in the recent slave cases. It is an interesting monograph on Sharp's life and work and the memorable judicial transaction in which he bore the most conspicuous part. Mrs. Seward wrote, November 24, of the lecture, addressing him, as always, Dear Charles Sumner:— The elevated tone of its moral teaching cannot fail to do good, though this result may not be immediately manifest. You wil