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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, chapter 1 (search)
or Morpeth at Abbott Lawrence's, Judge Story talked high conservatism. Adams's Biography of Dana, vol. i. p. 30. Thackeray, whose visit was a few years later, found a vast amount of toryism and donnishness everywhere. A Collection of Letters, 1847-1855, p. 165. Sumner, who was familiar with the talk at dinners and in drawing-rooms, wrote, in 1852, to his brother George, then in Europe: There are beautiful and generous spirits in Boston, but the prevailing tone of its society is provincial one who had approved an attack on his family. Ante, vol. II. pp. 254, 255. The intervention of Prescott was necessary to restore good relations, broken in consequence of an offhand and overheard remark. The prison-discipline controversy of 1845-1847, treated later in these pages, will show how family sympathies gave a personal direction to public controversies. Bancroft, the historian, escaped from a community where a Democrat was regarded as little better than a Jacobin, and years after
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)
opportunity to commend it. In the summer of 1847 Sumner delivered an oration at Amherst College,ion of the Germania and Agricola of Tacitus, in 1847, was the beginning of their correspondence. Inriends,—of Prescott, who early in the summer of 1847 published his Peru, and soon after began his Phand Hillard, to the lectures of both of whom in 1847 before the Lowell Institute he was a listener,one and opinions; and it became evident in 1846-1847 that the two friends, pursuing divergent paths, open breach; and as Hillard left for Europe in 1847, he confided to his old friend his will and pap he had not cared to recover; and later in 1846-1847, when shut out from homes where he had been weld passed. One from Mr. Daveis, of Portland, in 1847, broke a long interval, urging Sumner to attendrthy of note that Alexander H. Everett, 1792-1847. as appears by a letter to Sumner just before lC. Carey, 1793-1879. of Philadelphia, and in 1847 read the proofs of the latter's book, entitled [5 more...]
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 31: the prison—discipline debates in Tremont Temple.—1846-1847. (search)
Chapter 31: the prison—discipline debates in Tremont Temple.—1846-1847. During the period 1825-1850 there was an earnest contention in tittee; but this was prevented by Dwight's absence. In the spring of 1847 He prepared a report, Printed in the Semi-Weekly Courier, May 27,ould not have provoked controversy. The annual public meeting for 1847 was held in Tremont Temple, May 25, at eleven in the morning. The puprison discipline, that one marvels at the strange interest which in 1847 drew together multitudes on successive warm evenings in May and Juneomplained, without good cause, that Sumner had read in the debate of 1847 the doctor's letter of support written in 1845, although it was freeof June 29 and July 8 may, or may not, be his. Late in the year 1847 Mr. Gray's pamphlet on Prison Discipline in America was published. ess in speaking in a foreign tongue. The discussions of 1846 and 1847, which had discredited the character of the managers for efficiency,
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)
847, was in the same line. In the spring of 1847 Sumner prepared for a legislative committee an elaborate report House Doe., No. 187, 1847, 35 pages. Sumner's authorship of the report does notsumed. Political movements in the autumn of 1847 were of particular interest on account of theirsence at the Whig State conventions in 1846 and 1847 is not mentioned by his biographer, G. T. Curti of articles 1 Jan. 16, Dec. 15, 16, 18, 21, 1847: Jan. 5, 28, Feb. 1, 4, 5, 16, 18, 21, 1848. Sme view as Adams and Sumner. Dec. 29, 30, 31, 1847; Jan. 6, 8, 13, 1848. in his journal, the Whig, that time any discussion of the subject. In 1847 Sumner was in correspondence, as already seen, rvice lasted for twenty years; but from 1843 to 1847, after Gates of New York and Slade of Vermont h. Adams, to Massachusetts. During the whole of 1847 and until the nomination of General Taylor, therite so freely as to him. Giddings was early in 1847 more hopeful than Sumner that the Whigs would a[2 more...]
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 33: the national election of 1848.—the Free Soil Party.— 1848-1849. (search)
John Davis of Massachusetts, who was still talking when the session expired. Von Holst, vol. III. pp. 287-289. Davis's long speech was certainly a ridiculous folly as well as a grave mistake. The struggle was renewed at the next session, 1846-1847, on appropriation bills providing the means for negotiating a treaty; but though the Proviso at different times passed the House, in which the Northern members were largely in a majority, it was as often rejected in the Senate, which was more equa idea of keeping the republic within its ancient limits, and was ready—as his welcome to Alaska and Canada late in life shows—for any extension on the continent which came naturally and justly. Adams, in the Boston Whig, July 29, Aug. 4 and 21, 1847, combated the no territory position as untenable. Contemporaneously with the debates concerning the exclusion of slavery from Mexican territory to be acquired, there was a similar contest as to a territorial government for Oregon. After a dis
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 34: the compromise of 1850.—Mr. Webster. (search)
luding the Fugitive Slave law, was a final and permanent settlement. April 5, 1852. The speech of Daniel Webster in the Senate, March 7, 1850, in favor of the Compromise measures, was a surprise to the people of Massachusetts. It was in conflict with the principles they had uniformly maintained, as well as with his general course as the representative of the State. See Sumner's letter to John Bigelow, May 22, 1850, post, p. 215. Still, Webster's efforts in Massachusetts in 1846 and 1847 to prevent slavery becoming the main political issue, and his lukewarm censures of the Mexican War, as well as his Creole letter of an earlier period, had already weakened Sumner's confidence in him. Longfellow was hardly surprised at the speech of March 7. He wrote in his journal, March 9, 1850: Yet what has there been in Webster's life to lead us to think that he would take any high moral ground on this slavery question? He was not, like Clay, the natural supporter of compromise. he wro
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)
prominence as a supporter of General Scott. dodged the vote. In the column of forty-seven compromisers and disunionists who answered in support of the Fugitive Slave law on that day were Hamilton Fish, and four senators from New England,—John H. Clarke, Hamlin, Truman Smith, and Upham. It is difficult at this distance of time to comprehend the degradation of American politics in the years 1850-1854. In the popular interest it excited, the speech ranks with Corwin's on the Mexican War, in 1847, and with Webster's on the Compromise, in 1850. Among the various editions was one from the office of the National Era, Washington, D. C., and one from that of the New York Evening Post, which was included among Democratic campaign documents. There was an Edinburgh edition, with a preface by P. Edward Dove; a London edition, with a preface by Sir George Stephen; and a Newcastle edition. No speech on the slavery question is even now so readable. It was strong in its enunciation of the loc