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C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Eighth: the war of the Rebellion. (search)
speech against rendition of fugitives the battle-flag Resolution Sumner endorsed by Gen. Scott answer to how will all this end? an American Slave Empire Gov. Stanley closes Colored Schools Sumner calls for information Sumner's confidence in Lincoln Mr. Lincoln's character drawn Mr. Lincoln's written opinion Sumner on o Xxxvii. Instead of a matter of surprise that the good Abraham Lincoln sometimes lost his patience, I always wondered that he kept it at all. As soon as Mr. Edward Stanley reached his post as Provisional Governor of North Carolina, he made a striking display of his power by ordering the Colored Schools recently established by Your criticism of the President is hasty. I am confident, if you knew him as I do, you would not make it. I am happy to let you know that he has no sympathy with Stanley in his absurd wickedness, in closing the schools; nor, again, in his other act of turning our camps into hunting-ground for slaves. He repudiates both, positivel
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Xxxvii. (search)
Xxxvii. Instead of a matter of surprise that the good Abraham Lincoln sometimes lost his patience, I always wondered that he kept it at all. As soon as Mr. Edward Stanley reached his post as Provisional Governor of North Carolina, he made a striking display of his power by ordering the Colored Schools recently established by Vincent Colyer and others to be shut—they were forbidden by the Laws of the State! Mr. Colyer hurried on to Washington and called on Mr. Sumner, who at once drove witanction of the United States. In writing to a friend three days later, he said, Your criticism of the President is hasty. I am confident, if you knew him as I do, you would not make it. I am happy to let you know that he has no sympathy with Stanley in his absurd wickedness, in closing the schools; nor, again, in his other act of turning our camps into hunting-ground for slaves. He repudiates both, positively. In the same letter he also said: Could you, as has been my privilege often, h