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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)
s has fallen to no poem of our country before. Sumner welcomed the French Revolution of 1848. He did not overlook the perils which beset it, but he had faith that its results would be beneficent. His hopes were shared by few about him. Mr. Adams, however, treated the revolution hopefully in the Boston Whig, April 3, 1848. In letters to his brother George, then in Europe, he quoted the adverse opinions which prevailed in Boston along merchants and in society. His friend William Kent wat slavery. Joseph T. Buckingham admitted some of them to his journal, the Boston Courier, disclaiming, however, any responsibility for them; but oppressed by the hostile sentiments of his patrols, the declined others on grounds of expediency. Mr. Adams was always pleased to admit what Sumner wrote into the Boston Whig. The following, being those not referred to elsewhere, are identified as Sumner's: J. M. Clayton on the Mexican War, a criticism of that senator, who while condemning the war
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)
about the emancipation of the slaves. Both Adams and Giddings, who took the same course, soughtlared in favor of peace. Calhoun has won what Adams has lost; and I have been not a little pained e disturbance within the united Whig party. Mr. Adams said, thirty years later: The tone of their s held in May, 1846, and consisted of himself, Adams, Sumner, S. C. Phillips, and Wilson. The resuDaily Whig under new auspices was issued, with Adams as editor. Reunion of the Free-Soilers of 184y, attended, July 23, a meeting where Palfrey, Adams. S. C. Phillips, Wilson, and W. B. Spooner toning the journal. Another meeting was held at Adams's office, September 5. The offensive condu, Stephen C. Phillips A meeting was held at Adams's office, September 19, at which Adams, PalfreAdams, Palfrey, Phillips, and Sumner considered the subject of resolutions to be offered on their side. then offour noble position. I regret very much that Mr. Adams and Mr. King did not stand with you. Sum
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)
d the passion for territorial expansion too strong, to admit of this feeble expedient for resisting the course of events. Sumner from the beginning believed the acquisition to be inevitable, and treated the no more territory makeshift as altogether impracticable. Indeed, he never accepted the Whig 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 discussion prolonged from the previous session, a provision interdicting slavery in that territory passed the House, Aug. 2, 1848, mostly by a sectional vote, and was rejected by the Senate; but the lat