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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)
and a very elaborate criticism in the Revue des Deux Mondes place him with Montaigne. To Richard Cobden, February 12:— Though personally unknown to you (for you have doubtless forgotten the cle on slavery for the Christian Examiner, edited by Rev. E. S. Gannett. Sumner wrote to Richard Cobden, May 2, 1849:— I cannot allow the steamer to sail without offering you my thanks for you as in Louisiana and Pennsylvania, by the potent though quiet action of our political system. Cobden in his reply, Nov. 7, 1849, agreed with Sumner as to the future union of Canada with the United for all your efforts for His glory and the benefit of your fellow-men! Two letters from Richard Cobden, dated March 9, 1848, and Nov. 7, 1849, both relating chiefly to the reduction of armaments ston. My volumes about which you inquire are still dragging their slow length along. To Richard Cobden, July 9:— . . . The peace question, though appealing less palpably to the immediate in<
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)
t election that he should not regard it as any peculiar part of his duty to agitate the subject of slavery; Winthrop's Addresses and Speeches, vol. i. p. 634. and his subsequent action was in harmony with this declaration. The Whigs had before them, as an example for an opposition to an unjust war, the conduct of the English Whigs,—Chatham, Camden, Burke, Fox, and Barre,—in their denunciation of the American war and their refusal to vote supplies. In this connection, the action of Cobden at the time of the Crimean war, and Bright's withdrawal from the Cabinet after the bombardment of Alexandria, may be recalled. The spirit of those exemplars was shown in the epithets which the younger Pitt heaped upon it in Parliament while it was in progress, calling it the most accursed, wicked, barbarous, cruel, unnatural, unjust, and diabolical war. There were, indeed, among the Whig members some—as Hudson of Massachusetts, Corwin of Ohio, Severance of Maine, and Garrett Davis of Kentuc<
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 35: Massachusetts and the compromise.—Sumner chosen senator.—1850-1851. (search)
ion against Cuba The second attempt of Lopez. has dishonored us before the world. . . . my own impression is that it [Clay's Compromise] will pass through the Senate; and this is founded on two things: first, Clay is earnest and determined that it shall pass; he is using all his talents as leader; and, secondly, the ultra-Southern opposition, I think, will at last give way and support it,—at least enough to pass the measure. If Webster had willed it, he might have defeated it. To Richard Cobden, July 9:— The slaveholders are bent on securing the new territories for slavery, and they see in prospective an immense slave nation embracing the Gulf of Mexico and all its islands, and stretching from Maryland to Panama. For this they are now struggling, determined while in the Union to govern and direct its energies; or if obliged to quit, to build up a new nation slaveholding throughout. They are fighting with desperation, and have been aided by traitors at the North. Webste
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 40: outrages in Kansas.—speech on Kansas.—the Brooks assault.—1855-1856. (search)
l war. Henry Reeve also heard him say that it was the first blow of a civil war. Macaulay wrote to the Duchess of Argyll: In any country but America, I should think civil war must be impending. The Duchess of Argyll to Sumner, Sept. 8, 1863. Many letters of sympathy came to him from foreign friends. Macready wrote with affection, describing the universal sympathy in his country, and the indignation which had been called forth by the outrage inflicted by a cowardly and brutal ruffian. Cobden, testifying to the same opinions felt by all on that side of the Atlantic, expressed his dismay at the approval which the dastardly and brutal attack received from the Southern press, of which he said there was nothing so bad in Austria or Italy. Henry Richard, while confessing similar emotions, saw in the sequel of the speech the most expressive tribute to the power of high intellect consecrated by Christian principle. The Earl of Carlisle addressed him from Dublin as My dear hero, martyr
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 41: search for health.—journey to Europe.—continued disability.—1857-1858. (search)
metropolis, going first to Midhurst, where he was two nights with Mr. Cobden, who urged a week's visit, and then by way of Weymouth and Jersey questions of peace, prison discipline, and slavery. He wrote to Mr. Cobden, November 7:— To-day I sail, against the advice of physiciathe outside of the stage-coach for twenty-four miles on my way to Mr. Cobden's at Midhurst, passing the great estates of Petworth, now in the hands of Colonel Wyndham. Mr. Cobden was waiting for me at half-past 6 o'clock, and drove me to his pleasant home. August 6. Rode on horseback with Mr. Cobden to the Downs; several of the neighbor squires to dinner. August 7. Mr. Cobden drove me in an open wagon to Chichester (Mr. Cobden drove me in an open wagon to Chichester (twelve miles), where I was to take the train for Weymouth; visited the cathedral there, where are works of Flaxman and the tomb of Chillingworost, May 22, 1858. Just before leaving home he wrote letters to Cobden and Tocqueville on European and American affairs. To the latter he
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, chapter 14 (search)
ndance, and perhaps it helps poor Sumner to carry his cross. What a fine study would he not be for a Juarez or a Murillo! Heaven bless the skilful art of his physician, and restore this splendid human structure to vital completeness! Sumner was greatly concerned at this time by an apparent disposition of the British government to relax its efforts for the suppression of the slave-trade, and wrote many letters to English friends,—to Brougham, the Earl of Carlisle, the Duchess of Argyll, Cobden, Parkes, Senior, Reeve, and others,—urging a maintenance of the existing policy, and a fresh statement of the beneficial effects of emancipation in the West Indies. He wrote to the Duchess of Sutherland, July 11:— I cannot think of the sorrow of your family from recent bereavement without breaking silence to assure you of my true sympathy. I have grieved with you, whose sensitive nature is so easily touched, and I have thought much of the distressed parents, who, I trust, may be en<