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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 14 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 8 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays 6 0 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers 4 0 Browse Search
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Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters 2 0 Browse Search
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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 5: Texas.—1845. (search)
selves, they do relish strong talk. So Charles Sumner, writing to Judge Story: Feb. 5, 1845. The debates in the Convention were most interesting. I Life of Sumner, 2.331. never heard Garrison before. He spoke with natural eloquence. Hillard spoke exquisitely. His words descended in a golden G. S. Hillard. shower; but Garrison's fell in fiery rain. It seemed doubtful, at one time, if the abolitionists would not succeed in carrying the Convention. Their proposals were voted down;G. S. Hillard. shower; but Garrison's fell in fiery rain. It seemed doubtful, at one time, if the abolitionists would not succeed in carrying the Convention. Their proposals were voted down; though a very respectable number of the Convention were in favor of a dissolution of the Union in the event of the annexation of Texas. Mr. Garrison's share in the proceedings was effective in two particulars. He secured for the Convention a chance to criticise the address before it was issued, and he had the Committee of Correspondence enlarged so as to include members of the Democratic Party. His speech, delivered in the evening, was to second a motion made in the Lib. 15.18. afternoo