Browsing named entities in C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874.. You can also browse the collection for America (Netherlands) or search for America (Netherlands) in all documents.

Your search returned 52 results in 11 document sections:

1 2
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Fourth: orations and political speeches. (search)
e founded on oppression, and that if I was in America, I should resist to the last such manifest ex always said that the war carrying on against America is unjust. In the Commons, March 11th, 17ns to raise taxes to carry on the war against America. Mr. Fox then said: To the resolutionsued, and meant to be adhered to in respect to America. In the Commons, on the same night, Mr. Fre in the dilemma of conquering or abandoning America; if we are reduced to that, I am for abandoning America. In the Commons, Nov. 6th, 1776, Mr. Burke said: You simply tell the Colonistsnly sure means of either gaining or retaining America. In the Commons, May 14th, 1777, another jected, Why should we submit or concede? Has America done anything, on her part, to induce us to ath, 1778, Mr. Hartley, the constant friend of America, brought forward a motion: That it is u motion for the withdrawal of the forces from America. In the Commons, Nov. 27th, 1780, on a mot[8 more...]
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Viii. (search)
g against our brethren and fellow-subjects in America. In the House of Commons, on the same Addid: I call the war with our brethren in America, an unjust felonious war. * * * I assert thaty or navy, who has been sent by Government to America, and fallen a victim in this unnatural and une, oppression, and injustice. I contend that America has been indisputably aggrieved. * * * I muste founded on oppression, and that if I was in America, I should resist to the last such manifest exnly sure means of either gaining or retaining America. In the Commons, May 14th, 1777, another jected, Why should we submit or concede? Has America done anything, on her part, to induce us to ath, 1778, Mr. Hartley, the constant friend of America, brought forward a motion: That it is u motion for the withdrawal of the forces from America. In the Commons, Nov. 27th, 1780, on a moton and others, for their military services in America, Mr. Wilkes said: I think it my duty to[7 more...]
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Xv. (search)
President! I have already likened this Bill to the Stamp Act, and I trust that the parallel may be continued yet further by a burst of popular feeling against all action under it, similar to that which glowed in the breasts of our fathers. Listen to the words of John Adams, as written in his Diary for the time:— The year 1765 has been the most remarkable year of my life. That enormous engine, fabricated by the British Parliament, for battering down all the rights and liberties of America,—I mean the Stamp Act, —has raised and spread through the whole continent a spirit that will be recorded to our honor with all future generations. In every colony, from Georgia to New Hampshire inclusively, the stamp distributors and inspectors have been compelled by the unconquerable rage of the people to renounce their offices. Such and so universal has been the resentment of the people, that every man who has dared to speak in favor of the stamps, or to soften the detestation in which <
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Sixth: the interval of illness and repose. (search)
sessed, he spent most of the time during the painful treatment he was subjected to, in the careful study of engravings; and thus with the assistance of the finest artists in Paris, he matured his connoisseurship in that exquisitely beautiful department of Art. Viii. After journeying leisurely through Switzerland, Germany, and the northern part of Italy, taking Berlin, Vienna, Munich, Venice, and Trieste en route, he reached Paris, where he made preparations for his immediate return to America. But in a medical conference held by Dr. Brown-Sequard, Dr. George Hayward, and the illustrious French practitioner, Dr. Trousseau, he was informed that death would be the inevitable result of so rash an undertaking. Escaping, therefore, from all the excitements of Paris, which meant the excitements of Europe, he fled to Montpelier, in the south of France, where he led a life of absolute retirement. Every day he was cupped on the spine, and three-quarters of his time was spent on his bed
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Viii. (search)
Viii. After journeying leisurely through Switzerland, Germany, and the northern part of Italy, taking Berlin, Vienna, Munich, Venice, and Trieste en route, he reached Paris, where he made preparations for his immediate return to America. But in a medical conference held by Dr. Brown-Sequard, Dr. George Hayward, and the illustrious French practitioner, Dr. Trousseau, he was informed that death would be the inevitable result of so rash an undertaking. Escaping, therefore, from all the excitements of Paris, which meant the excitements of Europe, he fled to Montpelier, in the south of France, where he led a life of absolute retirement. Every day he was cupped on the spine, and three-quarters of his time was spent on his bed or sofa, sleeping whenever he could, but finding his chief recreation in reading; although he would frequently attend the public lectures at the College, on History and Literature.
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)
hers: it is doubtful if she can do it now even to herself. England lives in America to-day, and is dying at home. England is clinging to her sepulchres,—and shoked at the time very much as later events have shown it,—a thorough hatred of America by the ruling classes of England. At one time Lord Brougham presided; againer some of the stanzas. It is an address from England's Poets to the Poets of America. Your Garrison has faun'd the flame, Child, Chapman, Pierpont, caught the fiing secessionists of the rebel States, who are trying to break down freedom in America, and extend the area of that accursed institution, and sanctify the revival of through a domestic trouble,—a great trouble, which filled every true heart in America or elsewhere with a sadness which dragged us down to the depths of the earth. he subject of African slavery, the voice of no nation could be so potential as America's. When slavery was declared abolished here, it meant that it had received its<
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Xli. (search)
een the course she has taken. She will hardly be able hereafter to explain it to others: it is doubtful if she can do it now even to herself. England lives in America to-day, and is dying at home. England is clinging to her sepulchres,—and she may well do it; for the places where her great ones repose are the greenest spots oly religion were also invoked in the same cause. But to my unpractised eye it looked at the time very much as later events have shown it,—a thorough hatred of America by the ruling classes of England. At one time Lord Brougham presided; again, O'Connell; and again, the venerable Thomas Clarkson: they even got his Royal Highnthor of Scotland Illustrated, etc. I do not know if it has been published. I remember some of the stanzas. It is an address from England's Poets to the Poets of America. Your Garrison has faun'd the flame, Child, Chapman, Pierpont, caught the fire, And, roused at Freedom's hallow'd name, Hark! Bryant, Whittier, strike the ly
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Xlii. (search)
every run-away American negro who managed to reach England, and imploring Britons no longer to use slavegrown cotton and sugar, you now take sides with the nigger-driving secessionists of the rebel States, who are trying to break down freedom in America, and extend the area of that accursed institution, and sanctify the revival of the African slavetrade. You are threatening war against the United States unless we will surrender two intercepted traitors on their way to your abolition arms and sility and inhumanity at any other period of our history since the Peace of 1815. No other thoughts can suggest themselves to impartial men that, while we were going through a domestic trouble,—a great trouble, which filled every true heart in America or elsewhere with a sadness which dragged us down to the depths of the earth. Little did England then dream, that within eight short years—and chiefly through the influence of Charles Sumner—she would be forced to yield to arbitration, and b<
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., LXV. (search)
he verdict had been rendered, sanctioning the act, the approval was the solemn voice of the nation; and the ratification of the deed sounded the death-knell of African Slavery. It was the sudden beginning of a swift end. Students of History! Let memory go gleaning over all the fields of the past:—where will she find an instance that Freedom had once proclaimed Slavery dead, where it ever lived again? Some systems of wrong, once sent to their graves, have no resurrection. But these results were only the first steps in the march of the earthquake which had startled the world. Some events are understood just about as well before, as after, they happen. On the subject of African slavery, the voice of no nation could be so potential as America's. When slavery was declared abolished here, it meant that it had received its death-wound in every land. If negro slavery fell dead before our altars where liberty was born, it would carry all like systems with it to a common sepulchr
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Eleventh: his death, and public honors to his memory. (search)
his latest visit to Europe, a year or two back, he found no pleasure so great as that of ransacking the old bookshops and bookstalls of Paris for quaint and curious editions to add to his collection. He was a great talker upon art and literature, as well as upon politics; and talked, as he did everything, with tremendous energy and with an individual self-confidence which his enemies, and some even of his friends, set down as egotism. Many slyly satirical or humorous stories were told in America àropos of Mr. Sumner's faith in his own eloquence—stories which would have affected Mr. Sumner little even if he had heard them, for he was one of the very few Americans who have no perception of the meaning of a jest. He was a strong, serious man, often in the wrong, often unfair in his judgment, but never consciously yielding to prejudice; always inflexibly faithful to his principles as he saw them, and gifted with power of thought and speech and work enough to make him a distinct and a
1 2