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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 30: addresses before colleges and lyceums.—active interest in reforms.—friendships.—personal life.—1845-1850. (search)
ter A. Arthur, afterwards President of the United States, was one of the graduating class. Sumner delivered this oration as a lecture the next winter in various places. It was the subject of controversy in the Daily News, a local paper at Newport, R. I., after its delivery in that town. March 1, 1849; and the articles were republished as a pamphlet. Rev. Charles T. Brooks replied in the News to Sumner's conservative critic. The phrase chiefly objected to by the critic does not appear in tlate Joseph Bonaparte, He described the place in the Boston Whig, 7 Oct. 12, 1846. where he went over its treasures of art, and took rides on horseback through the spacious grounds. Each summer he passed some time with his brother Albert, at Newport. He was often with Longfellow at Nahant as well as at the Craigie House in Cambridge. He enjoyed visits to New York city, where William Kent, B. D. Silliman, John Jay, and George Bancroft To Mrs. Bancroft, for whom he had a great liking, he
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 35: Massachusetts and the compromise.—Sumner chosen senator.—1850-1851. (search)
You are not the first who has suffered in this cause; though your case happens to be now most prominent, as your character and position are most prominent. To William Jay, September 5:— I take advantage of the leisure of this retreat [Newport, R. I.] to acknowledge the kindness of your note of sympathy. On Horace Sumner's death. Ante, vol. i. p. 33. 34. I should have done it earlier. Be assured that it was most acceptable as a present consolation and as a token of your friendship.'s Biography, vol. i. p. 169. Sept. 8, 1849. and, withal, he had a practical turn of mind, notwithstanding the contrary impression given by his early addresses. He was absent from the State, and expressed himself by a letter to Wilson, from Newport, R. I., Sept. 9, which sanctioned, with proper cautions, the latter's plan:— I regret that it will not be in my power to attend the meeting of our friends at the Adams House. I am unwilling to intrude my opinion with regard to the points in q
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 36: first session in Congress.—welcome to Kossuth.—public lands in the West.—the Fugitive Slave Law.—1851-1852. (search)
e law, July 31, 1854, but was voted down by ten yeas to thirty-five nays. He made another effort for the repeal, Feb. 23. 1855, which was voted down,—yeas nine, nays thirty. He wrote to John Bigelow, August 30:— The kind interest you express in my speech tempts me to the confidence of friendship. I shall be attacked, and the speech will be disparaged. But you shall know something of what was said on the floor of the Senate. A letter of Sumner to Rev. Dr. R. P. Stebbins, from Newport, Oct. 12, 1852, printed in Nason's Life of Sumner, p. 162, gives other comments on the speech. You will see what Hale and Chase said openly in debate. Others are reported in conversation. I know that some Hunkers have felt its force. Clarke of Rhode Island said it would be a text-book when they were dead and gone; Shields said it was the ablest speech ever made in the Senate on slavery; and Bright used even stronger language. Cass has complimented me warmly. Soule has expressed himsel
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 37: the national election of 1852.—the Massachusetts constitutional convention.—final defeat of the coalition.— 1852-1853. (search)
9-207. was a vindication of the reason and utility of third parties against the dogmatic assertion that there can be but two in a country, with several illustrations from English and French history. Seward wrote: I have read your argument to prove the possibility of third parties in this country, which is unanswerable except by experience,—the test of hypothesis always. Soon after Sumner made an excursion to Canada, where he met again Lord Elgin, and thence went to his brother Albert's at Newport, prolonging his absence from the State till after the middle of October. His own convictions were in full accord with his party, both in national and State policy; but though urged by its leaders and by popular calls, he refrained from any further participation in the campaign. The State election at that time followed the national by a week. The union between the two parties opposed to the Whigs was now in State affairs less practicable than before, as a national election was pending,
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 39: the debate on Toucey's bill.—vindication of the antislavery enterprise.—first visit to the West.—defence of foreign-born citizens.—1854-1855. (search)
Conger, M. C., of Michigan, was a fellow-passenger, and in his eulogy in the House, April 27, 1874, stated the circumstances under which this letter was written. On his rapid return home he made brief pauses at Saratoga, Lake George, the White Mountains (where he ascended Mount Washington), and Portland, and was in Boston September 6,—having in his absence, as he wrote, traversed eleven free States and three slave States. The journey was followed by his usual visit to his brother Albert at Newport. In a speech made a few weeks after his return, he spoke of certain incidents witnessed by him in the slave States, At Lexington, Ky. which were not calculated to shake his original convictions. Works, vol. IV. p. 64. The Boston Post accused Sumner of expressing in Kentucky opinions on slavery different from those he expressed in Massachusetts,—a charge to which he replied by letter to that journal, Nov. 16, 1855. He wrote to William Jay, October 7:— My longing is for conc<
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)
present to my mind every hour in the day, and all my thoughts of you are baptized with blessings. May God and good angels guard you, and restore your precious health! Among the many who during the summer and autumn proffered Sumner hospitality to assist in his recovery were Francis P. Blair, Sr., from Silver Springs, Md., the brothers (W. H. and J. T.) Furness from Philadelphia, the Barclays from Baltimore, Mrs. Wadsworth from Geneseo, John Jay from Bedford, Mr. Fish from New York and Newport, John Bigelow from New York, Parke Godwin from Roslyn, Mr. Pell from the highlands of the Hudson, Mr. Adams from Quincy, Amos A. Lawrence from Brookline, F. W. Bird from Walpole, R. B. Forbes from Milton, Ellis Gray Loring from Beverly, John E. Lodge from Nahant, and Joseph Lyman from Jamaica Plain. Everywhere in the free States doors would have swung open to receive the honored guest. Yale College, in August, conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Laws. Dr. Woolsey, the president, in