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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 1 1 Browse Search
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order 1 1 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 44: Secession.—schemes of compromise.—Civil War.—Chairman of foreign relations Committee.—Dr. Lieber.—November, 1860– April, 1861. (search)
en friendship, and maintained a strict reserve concerning it. Lieber's second letter to Sumner, after the correspondence was renewed, requests the senator's intervention in favor of his son, a soldier in the Union army. Lieber's Life and Letters, p. 318. It somewhat corroborates Sumner's view of Lieber's conformity to Southern opinions that one of his sons entered the Confederate army. How Sumner was always trying to serve Lieber will be seen from a letter to him written from Boston, July 17, 1849:— I do not understand you; you are an enigma. Have I offended you in any way? Since your return from Europe I have heard of your writing to Longfellow, often to Howe, sometimes to Hillard, but never a line to me; and now comes a stray sheet, without date, without signature, without beginning, without end, without one word of friendship or one symptom of regard. I have sent you such poor publications as I had to offer, valuable only as containing cherished opinions and feelings;