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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 311 5 Browse Search
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Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct. 94 8 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition. 68 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 54 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 44 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition. 44 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 41 3 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 38 6 Browse Search
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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)
n officer and statesman; The Croker Papers, vol. II. p 233. Oct. 1, 1834. and yet Nelson had fought at Santa Cruz and Aboukir, and was to die at Trafalgar. John Adams's vanity was proverbial. To him praise was always sweet incense; and yet so sterling was his patriotism that no flattery in a foreign court or at home could swerve him a hair's-breadth from devotion to his country. The historian, Bancroft, in a conversation with the writer, made a comment on John Adams, which in substance corresponds with the text. When power exists in a man, he will rarely fail to know it. Merit and modesty, it has been wittily said, have nothing in common but the i any apparent concert or knowledge of each other, form an era in political science. To George Sumner, August 5:— I have just finished the diary of old John Adams, which is to me deeply interesting. He shows little faith in Franklin or in Vergennes. Bancroft works hard upon his History, and will put two volumes to press
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)
orted any compromise with slavery which was agreed upon as essential to party success. It has been the custom of statesmen in different periods to enrich and diversify public life with studies in science, the ancient classics, or modern literature; but not to force a comparison with any eminent names in English or French history, it is doing no injustice to the senators of the thirty-second Congress to say that there was nothing in their speeches to suggest that they followed as exemplars John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, Edward Livingston and John Quincy Adams. R. H. Dana, Jr.'s, diary in manuscript gives an account of a conversation with Palfrey and Sumner in September, 1852, in which the inexactness of Southern members in their extracts from Latin authors was one of the topics. Public men in Washington were then under less restraint than now in their habits. They could not forego tobacco even during the sessions, and whiskey and brandy were sold in the restaurants of the Capito
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)
ate, due to excessive readiness and facility. Adams's Biography of R. H. Dana, vol. i. p. 233. whorder. Some of the ideas were borrowed from John Adams's letter to R. H. Lee, of Virginia, and othehanged. Two eminent Free Soilers, Palfrey and Adams, A letter to the New York Evening Post, Nov, reviewed the political record of Palfrey and Adams. and undertook to explain the personal reasonthe editor striking out Wilson's criticisms on Adams and Palfrey); by a full account in the New Yorexisting party conditions. It put Palfrey and Adams for a time out of relations with the Free Soilers; In 1858. when Adams was first nominated for Congress by the Republicans, he expected to loin order of time, the defection of Palfrey and Adams, which stimulated the Whigs and neutralized marpened by the consciousness that Palfrey's and Adams's demonstrations had been in part inspired by a great consolation to your friends. Even Adams, who had led in wrecking the new constitution,[3 more...]
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)
h Warren, inspired by the sentiment that death with all its tortures is preferable to slavery. And here also thundered John Adams, fervid with the conviction that consenting to slavery is a sacrilegious breach of trust. Not far from this venerable The senator says that Boston is filled with traitors. That charge is not new. Boston of old was the home of Hancock and Adams. Her traitors now are those who are truly animated by the spirit of the American Revolution. In condemning them, in cond at that period, like the cabin of a pirate, where the only test of fitness for office was fidelity to the slave-power. Adams's Biography of Dana, vol. i. pp. 288, 289. Clay's proposition to send him to Coventry was thought more practicable. It at once moved that the petition, being disrespectful, he upon the table; but upon Sumner's calling for the yeas and nays, Adams withdrew his motion, in order, as he said, to get rid of the subject, and the petition was referred without further objec
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, chapter 14 (search)
There was water enough, but no libraries or books, and I at once left for London. . . . At Paris I found Palfrey's book, History of New England. which I read at once with great interest; it is admirable in all respects. Dana's book To Cuba and Back. I hear of in the hands of his London friends. I fund Lady Cranworth much pleased with it. Lord Stanhope finds his old friend W. Irving's Life of Washington very poor,— entirely unworthy of the subject and of the author. The Life of John Adams he recognizes as a very different work, and of positive merit. I hear of Seward's visit, but have not yet seen him. Since I have been in London he has been in the Provinces, where he went partly to escape the 4th of July dinner. Is he to be our candidate? To Theodore Parker, August 4:— Meanwhile, what sudden changes in the attitude of European States! The peace of Villafranca is as treacherous and clever as its author, for I feel disposed at least to concede to him cleverness.