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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 6 0 Browse Search
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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 8: to England and the Continent.—1867. (search)
boulaye, who strongly reminded me, in his sweet, Edouard Laboulaye. gentle manners, and in the shape of his head, of the lamented Professor Follen. Even he is not allowed to address a class or Charles Follen. assemblage of persons in more than two places in the whole city of Paris! Everything here is under governmental espionage and dictation, and therefore in a volcanic condition, although the volcano is capped for the present. Mr. Garrison met still another eminent Frenchman: Augustin Cochin. Two or three days ago, I wrote a letter to M. Cochin, Ms. June 14, 1867, to W. L. G., Jr. expressive of my admiration of his character and works in relation to Slavery and the Results of Emancipation, and my desire to have an interview with him, if agreeable, before leaving Paris for London. He immediately wrote a very cordial note in reply, and then drove in his carriage a long distance to our hotel, and sent up his card, with the letter. As I happened to be all alone, . . . I
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 50: last months of the Civil War.—Chase and Taney, chief-justices.—the first colored attorney in the supreme court —reciprocity with Canada.—the New Jersey monopoly.— retaliation in war.—reconstruction.—debate on Louisiana.—Lincoln and Sumner.—visit to Richmond.—the president's death by assassination.—Sumner's eulogy upon him. —President Johnson; his method of reconstruction.—Sumner's protests against race distinctions.—death of friends. —French visitors and correspondents.—1864-1865. (search)
voted down by the workingmen. I know you are greatly and justly angered at the conduct of our upper classes; but do not forget the attitude of the workers. Sumner's French correspondents during the war–Circourt, Henri Martin, Laboulaye, Augustin Cochin, Laugel, Montalembert, the Count of Paris, and his old friends at Montpellier, the family Martins-Gordon—were all friendly to our country as well as opponents of the second empire. Circourt, Martin, and Cochin were friends of George SumneCochin were friends of George Sumner, whose death drew from them sympathetic letters to his brother. M. Chevalier wrote July 2, 1865, but his letters were infrequent. There was hardly any public opinion in France, and the action of the government was the expression of the emperor's will. Montalembert, whom Sumner had met on his later visits to Paris, rejoiced in our successes, and expressed in his letters his admiration of Sumner's career. The Count of Paris, The count, who wrote English as perfectly as French, wrote to Su
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 52: Tenure-of-office act.—equal suffrage in the District of Columbia, in new states, in territories, and in reconstructed states.—schools and homesteads for the Freedmen.—purchase of Alaska and of St. Thomas.—death of Sir Frederick Bruce.—Sumner on Fessenden and Edmunds.—the prophetic voices.—lecture tour in the West.—are we a nation?—1866-1867. (search)
ich noted Sumner's constant interest in the emancipation of the serfs, as well as his leadership in the kindred movement in the United States. From associates in public life, from scientific men, and from intelligent persons in different parts of the country he received many letters of approval, often with an expression of wonder at his capacity for labor and his ability to command the time for such toil, pressed as he was in other directions. Agassiz sent him full comments on the speech. Cochin, in one of his books, mentioned it as erudite, eloquent, and poetic. Allibone thought it an admirable topographical monograph in every point of view, and urged its author to put his speeches into a handsome and permanent edition, with full index, and to compose some great work which posterity will not let die. This vast country, then a terra incognita to our people, is now annually visited by throngs of tourists; it is a frequent theme for descriptions in books, magazines, and newspapers;