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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge 18 2 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 12 2 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays 6 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 5 1 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 5 1 Browse Search
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. 5 1 Browse Search
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) 3 1 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 1 1 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)
ny seems in a hopeless condition, with less cheerful signs even than Italy; but the day for both will come. Of this I have an undoubting faith. Have I told you that among the crowds in Europe are Mr. and Mrs. Putnam,—the latter the sister of James Russell Lowell, and the author of the learned and admirable articles which overthrew Bowen? Mrs. Mary Lowell Putnam contested Prof. Francis Bowen's view of the Hungarian question. She is a beautiful lady as well as a most accomplished scholar. ny seems in a hopeless condition, with less cheerful signs even than Italy; but the day for both will come. Of this I have an undoubting faith. Have I told you that among the crowds in Europe are Mr. and Mrs. Putnam,—the latter the sister of James Russell Lowell, and the author of the learned and admirable articles which overthrew Bowen? Mrs. Mary Lowell Putnam contested Prof. Francis Bowen's view of the Hungarian question. She is a beautiful lady as well as a most accomplished schol
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 35: Massachusetts and the compromise.—Sumner chosen senator.—1850-1851. (search)
Fugitive Slave law. Rev. Orville Dewey, at Pittsfield, defended the Compromise; but his position was exceptional among the Unitarians. Moses Stuart, the Andover theologian, defended slavery from the Bible in learned exegesis. Culture was often dissociated from humanity. The professors at Cambridge were indeed divided; Dr. Convers Francis and Longfellow were anti-Compromise. Longfellow's Life, vol. II. p. 192. but the activity there was on Webster's side. Felton was his partisan. Bowen, in the North American Review, espoused his cause, and supported the Compromise. Theophilus Parsons and Joel Parker, the professors at the Law School, read lectures in defence of the Fugitive Slave law. The writer was a student of the school at the time, and sat restlessly during these lectures. Choate disregarded the proprieties of its anniversary meeting by an oration which was a plea for the Compromise and the surrender of fugitive slaves. The undergraduates, catching the spirit of t