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Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 13: (search)
banners, and appropriate mottoes, such as, Welcome, freedom's defender; Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God; Massachusetts loves, honors, will sustain and defend, her noble Sumner. At one point in the route, a large company of elegantly-dressed young ladies with bouquets and waving handkerchiefs bade him welcome. A vast concourse of people awaited him in front of the Capitol, where he was received on a platform erected for the purpose, and presented in an eloquent speech by Prof. F. D. Huntington to Gov. Henry J. Gardner and his staff. To words of generous welcome extended to him by the governor, he made a touching and appropriate reply, in the course of which he said, My soul overflows, especially to the young men of Boston, out of whose hearts, as from an exuberant fountain, this broad hospitality took its rise. In referring to his colleague, Mr. Wilson, he said, It is my special happiness to recognize his unfailing sympathies for myself, and his manly assumption of all
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, chapter 1 (search)
onservative. Dr. James Walker, then professor at Cambridge, was easily the first preacher. King's Chapel, with Rev. Ephraim Peabody in the pulpit and worshippers of the best society in the pews, represented the churches. Channing, that finest product of New England, was no longer living, to temper with his moral enthusiasm social and commercial opinion, and to set forth in weekly ministrations his lofty ideal of humanity. In two Unitarian pulpits, those of James Freeman Clarke and F. D. Huntington, the spirit of Channing survived; but in those of most of the Unitarian churches, as also in the Congregational (Trinitarian) and Episcopalian, there was little sympathy for moral reforms. Edward Everett and Rufus Choate were the first orators. Choate, C. G. Loring, and B. R. Curtis were the leaders of the bar. Lemuel Shaw, just, wise, and serene, with never a sinister thought to affect the balance between suitors, personified justice in the Supreme Court of the State,—a tribunal whic
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)
rson than on this day. He wore, as was his custom at this period, a blue dress-coat with gilt buttons, buff waistcoat, white trousers and gaiters. Right Rev. F. D. Huntington said, in 1886, that Sumner looked then Apollo-like, with the most distinguished presence of any one of his age in Massachusetts. He was described in 1850 at Dartmouth College in 1849; and at Bowdoin College and Middletown College in 1850; an address before the American Unitarian Association, 1847, pressed by Rev. F. D. Huntington; an address before the New York Prison Association in 1848; and an article on slavery for the Christian Examiner, edited by Rev. E. S. Gannett. Sumner ng the Danes. and who found there not only ethical inspiration, but also, in the society of both sexes, wit, culture, and the love of art and music. Rt. Rev. F. D. Huntington, now Bishop of Central New York. wrote, in 1886:— Everything that calls up the image or reviews the life of Charles Sumner to me is a satisfaction,—
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)
e Wayland, Storrs (father and son), Beecher, Huntington, Dexter, Farley, Clarke, Parker, Francis, Los, and heartfelt. A committee, of whom Professor Huntington of Harvard College, since Bishop of Cenignified, and elevated in character. Professor Huntington's letter, October 10, to Sumner. Sumner in an open barouche with Dr. Perry and Professor Huntington, proceeded to Roxbury, and thence to t H. Rice the mayor, and Josiah Quincy. Professor Huntington presented Sumner as one who had come, aish expediency, of right with wrong. Professor Huntington first invited Mr. Everett to welcome Suss secure than the past. Sumner and Professor Huntington then passed into the carriage drawn by he time observed it. On the other hand, Professor Huntington, in a letter to E. L. Pierce, Feb. 20, the mayor, concurs in recollection with Professor Huntington. It may be mentioned that Prescott a he came in sight. He was presented by Professor Huntington to Governor Gardner as one whose friend