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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing)	5	1	Browse	Search
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches	2	0	Browse	Search
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2	2	0	Browse	Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies	2	0	Browse	Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2	1	1	Browse	Search
James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen	1	1	Browse	Search
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Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, Sumner. (search)

Boston, early in 1860, all his friends went to Dr. S. G. Howe to know if he was really cured, and Howe said: He is a well man, but he will never be able to make another two hours speech. Yet Sumner trained himself and tested his strength so carefully that in the following spring he delivered his oration on the barbarism of slavery, more than an hour in length, before the Senate; and in 1863 he made a speech three hours in length, a herculean effort that has never been equalled, except by Hamilton's address before the Constitutional Convention of 1787. I remember Sumner in the summer of 1860 walking under my father's grape trellis, when the vines were in blossom, with his arms above his head, and saying: This is like the south of France. To think of Europe, its art, history, and scenery, was his relaxation from the cares and excitement of politics; but there were many who did not understand this, and looked upon it as an affectation. Sumner in his least serious moments was often

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