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Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 4: (search)
. M. Milnes. another letter from Judge Story. Visit to Paris. Gen. Lewis Cass. art Studies in Italy. glowing Description of the country. Thomas Crawford. anecdote concerning Thomas Aquinas. Acquaintances made in Germany. letter from William Prescott. Mr. Sumner's regard for Boston. his home on his return from Europe. Lyceum lectures. course of lectures to the Cambridge Law School. he Edits Vesey's Reports. remarks from the Law Reporter. He (Charles Sumner) presents in his owsured up a golden store of intellectual wealth, and. on his return to Boston early in 1840 possessed an affluence of learning and a felicity of diction which commanded the admiration of our most accomplished scholars. You have indeed, wrote Mr. Prescott the historian to him, read a page of social life such as few anywhere have access to; for your hours have been passed with the great,--not merely with those born to greatness, but those who have earned it for themselves. With what delight M
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 5: (search)
Robert C. Winthrop at the head, with fame and fortune in the distance. On the other hand, there are a few radical anti-slavery agitators, who are held by men in power as contemptible disturbers of the public peace, and who may incur the fate of Elijah Parish Lovejoy, murdered by the mob at Alton. Which line of action will this accomplished young civilian take? We shall soon see. In the summer of 1844 Mr. Sumner had a severe sickness, from which it was feared he would not recover. William Prescott, the historian, thus refers to it in his journal, under the date of Nahant, July 21: Been to town twice last week,--most uncommon for me,--once to see my friend Calderon, returned as minister from Spain; and once to see my poor friend Sumner, who has had a sentence of death passed on him by the physicians. His sister sat by his side, struck with the same disease. It was an affecting sight to see brother and sister thus, hand in hand, preparing to walk through the dark valley. I shall