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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 30: addresses before colleges and lyceums.—active interest in reforms.—friendships.—personal life.—1845-1850. (search)
mmended his works in news paper notices, and intervened with public men in Washington He wrote Mr Winthrop, M. C., March 15, 1846. at length in favor of including Crawford's name in a resolution of Congress ordering an equestrian statue of Washington. and with his old acquaintance Conrad Robinson, to advance his claims in the competition for the statue of Washington, to be erected by the State of Virginia in Richmond. Crawford came to the country in the winter of 1849-1850, and passed someWashington, to be erected by the State of Virginia in Richmond. Crawford came to the country in the winter of 1849-1850, and passed some time at Richmond and Washington for the purpose of securing the commission. He was fortunate in his errand; and to none was he so grateful as to Sumner, whom he thanked for his unceasing attention to everything concerning his success. Sumner wrote to Crawford, Feb. 9, 1850— I give you joy in your great success. This engagement will advertise you to the whole country. It will occupy your time honorably, and draw business to you. Fortune has at last perched on your head. From this ti
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 33: the national election of 1848.—the Free Soil Party.— 1848-1849. (search)
lected if he were nominated; and that Clay, if nominated, could not be elected, and that Taylor was the only candidate whom the Whigs could elect. He stated that Mr. Lawrence's preference for Taylor dated as far back as his own, and had been expressed for months; and that he had signified to the New York Taylor committee that he would accept a place on the ticket with General Taylor. Mr. Lawrence, Feb. 17, 1848, wrote a letter to a Taylor meeting in Philadelphia connecting the names of Washington and Taylor (printed in the Atlas, February 25), saying that Taylor, if nominated by the Whigs, would be elected. Henry Wilson, in a letter to the New York Tribune, April 1, 1848, stated that a few manufacturers of considerable influence were almost the only supporters of Taylor, and were associating with his candidacy the name of Mr. Lawrence, though not coming forward in conventions. But without imputing duplicity to either of these gentlemen, there is no doubt that the Whig leaders, at
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 35: Massachusetts and the compromise.—Sumner chosen senator.—1850-1851. (search)
at this period, 1846– 1851, regarded him with great respect, and deeply regretted that he did not take his place with the antislavery party. There was no time when Wilson and Sumner would not have welcomed him as a coadjutor. Winthrop has lived more than forty years since his retirement from Congress,—a wellknown figure in Boston, its most conspicuous citizen for a long period; administering charities municipal and national; an orator of foremost rank, called to speak for his city and country on great commemorative days; faithful to church, to family, and to friends; gracious to old adversaries; and opening his door on February 22, year after year, for his fellow-citizens to join with him in a filial tribute to Washington. Those who contended against him in the years 1846 to 1851, and have known him in his old age, regret only that he did not take his place with Adams, Sumner, and Wilson, and prolong a public career which promised to be of great service to his country and manki
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 36: first session in Congress.—welcome to Kossuth.—public lands in the West.—the Fugitive Slave Law.—1851-1852. (search)
been acquired by the government when it was organized in 1789, and the territories were then all under the Ordinance of 1787, he declared: At this moment, when Washington took his first oath to support the Constitution of the United States, the national ensign, nowhere within the national territory, covered a single slave. Then,ute book. In the charnel-house of history, with unclean things of the past, it now rots. Thither the Slave Act must follow. He produced an original letter of Washington, never published before, and lent to him by Rev. Charles Lowell, showing how the Father of his Country refused to have one of his slaves recovered if it would eretation, freedom and not slavery is national, while slavery and not freedom is sectional; that in this spirit the national government was first organized under Washington, himself an abolitionist, surrounded by abolitionists, while the whole country, by its church, its colleges, its literature, and all its best voices, was united
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 38: repeal of the Missouri Compromise.—reply to Butler and Mason.—the Republican Party.—address on Granville Sharp.—friendly correspondence.—1853-1854. (search)
the election of a successor His distaste for a contest on the slavery question was thought at the time to enter largely into his decision to surrender a post which he had recently taken with high expectations. Choate noted Everett's desponding views at this time, and the turning of his personal hopes away from politics. Brown's Life of Choate, p. 297. He was not broken in health, for his subsequent life was full of activity, comprehending long journeys in the delivery of his oration on Washington, and the production of addresses and papers which fill a large share of his published works. Everett did not include in his Orations and Speeches, published in four volumes, his speeches on the Nebraska bill and the Clerical Protest, although including his tribute to Vice-President King, which could be of little interest to readers at that or any subsequent period. His failure to meet public expectations in contests which attracted universal interest materially strengthened Sumner's pos
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 40: outrages in Kansas.—speech on Kansas.—the Brooks assault.—1855-1856. (search)
oes not represent that early Virginia, so dear to our hearts, which gave to us the pen of Jefferson, by which the equality of men was declared, and the sword of Washington, by which independence was secured. He represents that other Virginia, from which Washington and Jefferson avert their faces, where human beings are bred as caWashington and Jefferson avert their faces, where human beings are bred as cattle for the shambles, and a dungeon rewards the pious matron who teaches little children to relieve their bondage by reading the Book of Life. It is proper that such a senator, representing such a State, should rail against free Kansas. Such as these are natural enemies of Kansas, and I introduce them with reluctance, simply , on motion of O. S. Ferry, afterwards United States senator, to reconsider the resolution inviting Mr. Everett to deliver before the Legislature his oration on Washington; but later, after what he had said at Taunton, Mass., the resolution was taken up again and passed. On May 30, in that city, in a preface to his oration he tre
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 41: search for health.—journey to Europe.—continued disability.—1857-1858. (search)
not numerous. April 22. Kept in the house again nearly all day. Having accepted the invitation of Comte de Kergorlay some days ago, went out to dinner reluctantly; met a large company, many of them in the present government. From the dinner got home as soon as I could, without going elsewhere. April 23. Again kept in the house until it was time to keep an engagement made a week ago to dine with Comate de Montalembert. I found his wife agreeable, a great admirer of the character of Washington, of whom she had a portrait in a bed-room at her country house; also a great hater of slavery. She would rather dig with her fingers than live on money wrung from slaves. Montalembert again expressed his mortification that England, amidst all her professions of liberal principles, should lend herself to Louis Napoleon. After dinner several persons cane in; I stole away. Did not go to Jules Simon's, 1814–. where I had been invited, but got home as soon as possible, and went to bed.
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, chapter 14 (search)
baths and medicines. For this purpose I went to Dieppe, but soon became dissatisfied. There was water enough, but no libraries or books, and I at once left for London. . . . At Paris I found Palfrey's book, History of New England. which I read at once with great interest; it is admirable in all respects. Dana's book To Cuba and Back. I hear of in the hands of his London friends. I fund Lady Cranworth much pleased with it. Lord Stanhope finds his old friend W. Irving's Life of Washington very poor,— entirely unworthy of the subject and of the author. The Life of John Adams he recognizes as a very different work, and of positive merit. I hear of Seward's visit, but have not yet seen him. Since I have been in London he has been in the Provinces, where he went partly to escape the 4th of July dinner. Is he to be our candidate? To Theodore Parker, August 4:— Meanwhile, what sudden changes in the attitude of European States! The peace of Villafranca is as treacher