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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 44: Secession.—schemes of compromise.—Civil War.—Chairman of foreign relations Committee.—Dr. Lieber.—November, 1860– April, 1861. (search)
was happy to do good offices for the doctor in securing appointments in the army for two of his sons. They were as friendly and confidential as in the early days, and both rejoiced in their restored relations. A letter from Lieber in 1862 began with My old and restored friend. The suspension of their correspondence in 1853 would not be referred to in this Memoir but for an explanation given in a letter of Dr. Lieber printed in his Life and Letters, pp. 296, 297. The doctor living in Columbia, S. C., twenty-two years (from 1835 to 1857), came to take a milder view of slavery than he carried there from the North, and dissented altogether from Sumner's radical treatment of the subject. Moreover, his exile, as he thought it was, was not favorable to geniality of temper. His early friendship for Sumner was indeed genuine; but it was one thing to enjoy the society of an aspiring youth and make use of him, and quite another to see him rise to a distinction far beyond his own. He object