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Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 4: (search)
his discovery of character. It is a just homage to your own merits. Your Old-Bailey speech was capital, and hit by stating sound truths in the right way. During his residence in London, Mr. Sumner formed the acquaintance of Thomas B. Macaulay, whose wonderful conversation, said he, left on the mind an ineffaceable impression of eloquence and fulness, perhaps without a parallel. Of the manner of his introduction to Richard Monckton Milnes, he gave the following account to his friend James Redpath:-- I was at Sydney Smith's breakfast-table one morning, with perhaps a dozen others, when he suddenly asked me how English literary reputations stood in America. We sometimes presume, said Mr. Sumner, to rejudge your judgments; to refuse a reputation where you give one, and to bestow a name where you withhold it. An example! An example! exclaimed Mr. Smith in his caressing style. Here I was, a young Yankee Doodle, to use a phrase of Mr. Carlyle, at the table of the greates
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 9. (search)
nly through the agency of Henry Wilson in the legislature, 1851, Mr. Sumner was elected, over Robert C. Winthrop, the Whig candidate, to the Senate of the United States. The contest, commencing on the 16th day of January, was long and acrimonious. Mr. Winthrop had much experience in public affairs, and was an intimate friend of Daniel Webster. Mr. Sumner would make no pledges: he had never held, nor did he desire to hold, any political office. Mr. Sumner said in a conversation with James Redpath, written at the time, that committee after committee waited on him during the election, to get even verbal promises relative to tariff, and to ease off on the slave question; but he uniformly declined to satisfy them, saying that the office must seek him, and that he would not walk across the room to secure the election. He was deemed an idealist, and, as such, unsuited to the practical duties of a senatorial career. It was, at any rate, too long a step from his private student-life to
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 12: (search)
which subscriptions to the amount of one thousand dollars had been made, and said in closing, I express a desire that the contributions intended for the testimonial to me may be applied at once, and without abatement of any kind, to the recovery and security of freedom in Kansas. The testimonial was to have been an elaborate and beautiful silver vase two feet in height, ornamented with the figure of Charles Sumner and appropriate devices. In a subsequent conversation with his friend James Redpath, written down at the time, Mr. Sumner spoke long and strongly against the habit of public men receiving gifts. He related an anecdote of the Russian prince who paid into his master's treasury the value of the present he had received; and remarked that he himself had adopted the same rule. Webster, said he, was injured in consequence of receiving gifts from his constituents. On the 21st of June, he found strength sufficient to write an encouraging letter to the Republican committee
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 13: (search)
r Presidential election is only another Bunker Hill. In a letter, dated Hancock Street, Jan. 10, 1857, to his friend James Redpath, Esq., who was heroically laboring on behalf of freedom in Kansas, he said, I cannot believe that Massachusetts will t fair territory where the friends and the foes of the freedom of the colored race were in conflict. In a letter to Mr. Redpath, dated on board The Fulton, March 7, 1857, he said, Do any sigh for a Thermopylae? They have it in Kansas; for there to death, and executed. He acted conscientiously, and evinced the heroism of an old martyr. His life was written by James Redpath, 1860. John Brown, as well as Mr. Sumner, was remarkable for his height; and, on being asked by the latter if he evepect to the ends he had in view, but did not agree with him as to the means employed for securing them. I once, says James Redpath, visited Senator Sumner in the company of John Brown. We spoke of the assault of P. S. Brooks, under which Mr. Sumne
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 18: (search)
fair may be seen in this letter:-- Washington, 9th July, 1871. My dear Redpath,--Your letter must have crossed mine. I send you this French translation of t-advised censure of the State he represented. In this letter to his friend James Redpath, he declares his anxiety for strength to sustain his resolution:-- Washington, 25th Dec., 1872. My dear Redpath,--I wish you a merry Christmas! I regret much that I cannot take advantage of your invitation; but I am under medical tter to the Boston Lyceum Bureau:-- Washington, 13th May, 1873. My dear Redpath,--Nobody is authorized to act as my agent; nor do I remember any communicationo cancel his lyceum engagements. Coolidge House, 3d Oct., 1873. Dear Mr. Redpath,--In announcing me as a lecturer for the present season, and making engagemeanks, and believe me, my dear sir, Faithfully yours, Charles Sumner. James Redpath, Esq. In November Mr. Sumner addressed a letter to a meeting held in New Y