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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 27: services for education.—prison discipline.—Correspondence.— January to July, 1845.—age, 34. (search)
on he took an active interest. He seconded Horace Mann's labors in this cause, Ante, Vol. II. pp. 196, 316. See letter of Mr. Mann to Sumner relative to a bequest for a charity. Mann's Life, p. 2Mann's Life, p. 246. and supported him in his controversy with the Boston schoolmasters upon points of school discipl in the Advertiser, March 12 and 21, 1844. Mr. Mann's report on European systems of education, wastitutional Convention. Several friends of Mr. Mann met, in the winter of 1844-45, with the view signed by twenty-four gentlemen, was sent to Mr. Mann. The latter was greatly cheered by this tribr own fireside! A personal testimonial to Mr. Mann was at first contemplated; but as this was fopal, Mr. Tillinghast, the following note from Mr. Mann: Mann's Life, pp. 249, 250. WrenthMann's Life, pp. 249, 250. Wrentham, Aug. 6, 1846. My dear Sumner,—The new Normal Schoolhouse at Bridgewater is to be dedicated onHorace Mann. Boston, June 23, 1845. my dear Mann,—I have this moment received yours of the 21st.[6 more...]<
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 28: the city Oration,—the true grandeur of nations.—an argument against war.—July 4, 1845.—Age 34. (search)
re Peleg W. Chandler in 1844, Charles Francis Adams in 1843, and Horace Mann in 1842. They each spoke with earnestness and power; the first title to a territory, Some of Sumner's friends, particularly Horace Mann and P. W. Chandler, took issue with this definition. he illustraopies. Would it be possible to print a cheap edition like that of Mr. Mann's noble oration? I beg you to excuse me for writing you this lett But no expression of opposite views troubled Sumner so much as Horace Mann's. He had counted on the sympathy of one so deeply interested in the welfare of mankind. Mr. Mann questioned Sumner's definition of war, maintaining that it had been sometimes waged, as by Holland against itrament of war. Ever sincerely yours, Charles Sumner. To Horace Mann. Court Street, Saturday [August], 1845. my dear Mann,—I was Mann,—I was pleased and troubled by your letter about my oration,—gratified that you thought so much about it, and pained that you did not think with it. <
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)
April 30, 1846, and with whom he continued to exchange notes and courtesies; Horace Mann's labors in behalf of popular education; the literary success of his friendsding his recklessness in keeping late hours, Sumner's health was excellent. Horace Mann wrote of him to Howe in 1852, what was true of him always: He yields obedienng revision, he was always discovering a construction or a word to improve. Horace Mann wrote to a young man in whom he had been interested as a boy,—George E. Bakeon against his severe canons of criticism. He cut to pieces a lecture which Horace Mann sent him for revision, and an impartial and competent journalist who happenee it covered with his pencil marks says that every change was an improvement. Mr. Mann wrote with power and eloquence, but there was a want of chasteness and finish am and John Jay on measures against war and slavery; with Giddings, Palfrey, and Mann on issues in Congress and the antislavery movement; He was also in familiar r
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 31: the prison—discipline debates in Tremont Temple.—1846-1847. (search)
had pushed into the lists like the unrecognized Richard on the field of arms at Ashby. Four members of the committee—Sumner, Howe, Eliot, and Dwight—inspected the Philadelphia prison on two successive days in October, Two other members, Horace Mann and Dr. Walter Channing, made their visits some weeks later. and on the third day, which was Sunday, attended the religious exercises, which were conducted in one division by Miss D. L. Dix, and in another by Mr. Dwight. Naturally enough, the was renewed at the anniversary meeting of the Society in May, 1846. Eliot, Dwight, Dr. W. Channing, and Bigelow concurred in a report drawn by Dr. Channing, which sustained the course of the Society and its secretary; while Dr. Howe, Sumner, and Mann joined in a minority report drawn by Dr. Howe. Sumner assisted in correcting the proofs. Sumner made ineffectual efforts at business meetings of the Society to have both reports printed with the annual report for 1846, but was defeated by the p
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 32: the annexation of Texas.—the Mexican War.—Winthrop and Sumner.—1845-1847. (search)
ich questions concerning slavery were to be considered. Horace Mann thought him fair in this respect; Letter to Sumner, Jan. 9, 1850. Mann's view of Winthrop later was less favorable. Mann's Life, pp. 283-286, 289, 310. and though not considerMann's Life, pp. 283-286, 289, 310. and though not considering him as satisfactory as he could wish, voted for him in 1849; and Dr. Bailey of the National Era, Jan. 3, 1850. who on the spot kept a sharp eye on such matters, concurred in Mr. Mann's view as to one committee, but thought otherwise as to tn a Whig who had made opposition to slavery paramount, like Mann; and while it was right for Palfrey to question him, it wasnts at Washington were Palfrey, from December, 1847, and Horace Mann, who took J. Q. Adams's seat early in 1848. He had requested Mann to undertake the defence of Drayton and Sayres, indicted in the District of Columbia for the abduction of slaves, and assisted him with points and authorities Mann's Life, pp. 260, 265, 269-272. Sumner wrote to his brother George
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)
New York Tribune, September 29. After entering Congress in March, 1848, Horace Mann retained, by advice of the friends of popular education, his office of Secreontests which would interfere with his usefulness in the office of secretary. Mann's Life, pp. 264-265. Sumner, in person and in several letters, urged him to declnst Taylor's nomination, and to take his place openly with the Free Soilers; but Mann, while generally heedful of Sumner's opinions, did not see his duty in that lighding his silence on the question of candidate for President. Sumner again plied Mann in 1849 with earnest entreaties to take his stand openly with the Free Soilers. A year later Mann took his place with the Free Soilers. He wrote Sept. 20, 1849:— I have sent you our State Address, A Free Soil State Address, drawn by Sree Soil principles. On the other hand, Free Soilers in Massachusetts supported Mann for Congress, although he was at the time a voter and candidate of the Whig part
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 34: the compromise of 1850.—Mr. Webster. (search)
rote Sumner, July 5, 1850, that General Taylor had been growing more and more Northern in sentiment, and had become a most formidable obstacle to a compromise. Horace Mann took the same view of Taylor. （Mann's Life, pp. 305, 307, 322.) But in the end the General's negative policy would have fallen between the positive forces arraMann's Life, pp. 305, 307, 322.) But in the end the General's negative policy would have fallen between the positive forces arrayed against each other. See Boston Republican, June 27, 1850. California being entitled by all precedents to admission without an offset, Clay's Compromise measures, except the one last named, were all in the interest of slavery. They were (1) the Texas boundary bill, granting that State ten millions of dollars for territory whid by Webster and other supporters of the Compromise that a revision of the tariff in their interest could be obtained only by concession to Southern demands. Horace Mann's Life, pp. 331, 332, 335, 337. Webster's Private Correspondence. vol. II. pp. 366, 370, 388, 390, 391; Webster's Works, vol. VI. p. 547. Von Holst, vol. III
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 35: Massachusetts and the compromise.—Sumner chosen senator.—1850-1851. (search)
meetings in Cambridge during addresses from Horace Mann and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Longfellow's Liprinciples a matter of bargain and sale. Horace Mann, in two Letters, May 3 and June 6 (Notes, Jnd following him closely in his misstatements. Mann's argument was one of great ability, but impairies. During the summer his correspondence with Mann was constant. The controversy between the Websy bitter. Webster's Latinity—his comparison of Mann to the captatores verborum, a set of small but rk, by skill, determination, will, backbone. Mann's loss of a renomination to Congress in the Whife, pp. 303, 324. Some Whigs, like Rockwell and Mann, both of Massachusetts, who had Free Soil sympa the seat, he would turn the tables upon them. Mann's Life, p. 330.—an influence, however, which died his approval of the unions with the Whigs on Mann and Fowler as candidates for Congress, and withuincy Adams as President by Clay's help, Horace Mann, referring to the charges against Adams and[19 more...]<
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)
the slaveholding population; and their trial, in which they were defended by Horace Mann, excited general interest Ante, p. 156. They received a heavy sentence in f Mr. Webster, who happened to come in early in the speech, remained an hour; Mann's Life, p. 381. and as far as known it was his last visit to the Senate. It wounstrained to yield it support under a sense of constitutional obligation. Horace Mann, in his speech in Congress, Feb. 28, 1851, treated at length this unconstitu, which Sumner had not the time to enter upon, were ably discussed by others,—by Mann in the speech above referred to and in his speech at Lancaster, Mass., May 19, 1d it, bore, after reading it, his second testimony to its convincing power. Horace Mann wrote, the day after it was delivered, to Mrs. Mann, that it would tell on tMrs. Mann, that it would tell on the country, and be a speech for a book and for history. John Bigelow, of the New York Evening Post, who, though a faithful friend of Sumner, looked at antislavery s
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 37: the national election of 1852.—the Massachusetts constitutional convention.—final defeat of the coalition.— 1852-1853. (search)
occupied the chair, Adams reported the resolutions, and Horace Mann was nominated for governor. Among the speakers were Wilson, Mann, and Burlingame. On the platform, in a conspicuous seat, was Captain Drayton, the liberated master of the Pearl. ity, and with it the State offices and senator, although Horace Mann as candidate for governor received nine thousand more voantislavery. Controversy between Wendell Phillips and Horace Mann on the voting question. If Phillips, whom I love as an eorators of the State,—Palfrey the president, Sumner, Adams, Mann, Wilson, Burlingame, Dana, Keyes, Leavitt, Pierpont, and Ga were radically antislavery, and the names of Sumner and Horace Mann were suggested to them. They preferred the former, as mve, and deals with his cases strongly. I do not agree with Mann in his admiration of his powers; nor do I agree with the la ballot nearly all the votes as candidate for governor. Horace Mann, on his way to Ohio, where he was to be the President of
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