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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 12: Kossuth.—1852. (search)
opriations for the removal of the free blacks, as being a hindrance to Southern emancipation! (Lib. 22: 37, 38, 78, 139.) The Governor of Alabama followed suit (Lib. 22: 57). The Indiana Legislature actually voted a niggardly sum for the purpose (Lib. 22: 75). Even James G. Birney, despairing of the future of the free blacks, scandalized his old associates by issuing a pamphlet counselling expatriation (Lib. 22: 25, 38). At the annual meeting of the Mass. A. S. Society, in Faneuil Hall, on Jan. 31, Mr. Garrison felt it incumbent on him to make a set speech against colonization (Lib. 22: 30), and was subsequently urged by Wm. Henry Brisbane to prepare an address to the colored people, admonishing them not to be misled by specious arguments in favor of emigrating, nor to lose courage (Ms. Cincinnati, Mar. 26, 1852). Twenty thousand copies of Uncle Tom were disposed Lib. 22.59. of in three weeks; four times as many at the end of the Ms. June 3, J. P. Jewett to W. L. G. eleventh
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)
match engravings representing African and Algerian slavery, and those reduced will form admirable illustrations. Sumner wrote to Mrs. George Bancroft (her husband being then in England as United States minister), Jan. 1, 1847:— Mr. Everett seems very unhappy in his place. The duties press upon him, and he foregoes society and recreation of all kinds. I fear that he has failed to make such an impression at Cambridge as will make it agreeable for him to stay. To Lord Morpeth, January 31:— Emerson lives at Concord, about twenty miles from Boston, passing a studious or rather sylvan life, walking much in the fields and woods, and pencilling thoughts that occur in his rambles. He is simple in his habits, pure in his character, most poetic and refined in his moods of thought. He is not a man of the world, and yet there are few who draw attention by the pen whose conversation and personal presence commend them more than his. His published essays were first read as lect
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)
ry step by which it is maintained. The Whigs, as a party, are afraid to oppose it, lest they should draw upon themselves the odiun that covered those who opposed the last war with England; and they proffer as their excuse the wretched dogma that the country must be sustained in the war now that it is commenced. In this they lose sight of the clear distinction between measures of defence and offence. The country may be sustained in the former, but never in the latter. To Lord Morpeth, January 31:— I am grateful for your warnings on the subject of slavery; Morpeth had advised Sumner that some mutual friends of the conservative type from the United States (probably the Bancrofts) thought him far-going on the slavery question, and verging on quixotism; and he added the caution, Do not, however, in your righteous ardor on the right side forget that there is always a danger of being one-sided, and that we ought to be fair to all adversaries. but I think they proceed from some mi
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)
. Mason of Virginia, its final author, with both of whom I have constant and cordial intercourse. This experience would teach me, if I needed the lesson, to shun harsh and personal criticism of those from whom I differ. But ours is a great battle, destined to be prolonged many years. It has a place for every nature; and I believe every man who is earnest against slavery. whatever name of party, sect, or society he may assume, does good. I welcome him as a brother. To William Jay, January 31:— I have hoped to see in the treaty on the fisheries now negotiating with England a clause providing arbitration instead of war. Mr. Everett is willing; so is the British minister; Mr. Crampton. but it is feared that the necessary instructions cannot be obtained in season from England. But there is another treaty of less importance, constituting a commission on certain outstanding claims, to which it may be attached, if it should be thought advisable. Mr. Everett doubts if the l
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)
This passage. at Butler's request, was suppressed or modified in the Congressional Globe. It was severely condemned by the Northern press. New York Times, January 31; New York Herald, January 31 and February 2; New York Tribune, January 30; New York Evening Post, January 30, 31: New York Independent, February 5. James BuchaJanuary 31 and February 2; New York Tribune, January 30; New York Evening Post, January 30, 31: New York Independent, February 5. James Buchanan, President-elect, who had arrived in Washington, took pains of his own motion to attend the funeral. although his presence had not been arranged for in the official programme. (J. S. Pike in the New York Tribune, February 2.) Brooks had been his partisan in the election of 1856, and Buchanan had been an apologist for the assa31: New York Independent, February 5. James Buchanan, President-elect, who had arrived in Washington, took pains of his own motion to attend the funeral. although his presence had not been arranged for in the official programme. (J. S. Pike in the New York Tribune, February 2.) Brooks had been his partisan in the election of 1856, and Buchanan had been an apologist for the assault. （Wilson's History, vol. II. p. 490: Sumner's Works, vol. IV. p. 276.) Wilson was indignant that Savage's insult was not instantly repelled in the house; and he intended to brand it as cowardly in the Senate if he could get an opportunity. The weakness of De Witt of Massachusetts. who accepted service on the committee of
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)
Independent, February 7, contains S. H. Gay's criticism of the speech; but the editor a week later took a more favorable view of it. Seward spoke again briefly January 31. Mrs. Seward did not approve her husband's concessions. Seward's Life, vol. II. p. 496. He read the speech before its delivery to Sumner, who pleaded with hime, Dec. 30 and 31, 1860; New York Herald, December 31; New York Evening Post, Jan. 15. 1861. Within three weeks from this action, he made a speech in the house, January 31, in which he returned to the support of the propositions he had offered and later rejected. Everett, Winthrop, and A. A. Lawrence, members of the Boston Unioon. No, No, No, let the North cry out to every compromise and to every retreat. To Whittier, February 5:— I deplored Seward's speeches. January 12 and 31. The first he read to me, and I supplicated him not to make it. The true-hearted here have been filled with grief and mortification. People are anxious to save our
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 49: letters to Europe.—test oath in the senate.—final repeal of the fugitive-slave act.—abolition of the coastwise slave-trade.—Freedmen's Bureau.—equal rights of the colored people as witnesses and passengers.—equal pay of colored troops.—first struggle for suffrage of the colored people.—thirteenth amendment of the constitution.— French spoliation claims.—taxation of national banks.— differences with Fessenden.—Civil service Reform.—Lincoln's re-election.—parting with friends.—1863-1864. (search)
sent by his daughter's hand his hearty commendation of the measure. The Union League Club of New York appointed a committee to aid its passage. Generally, however, Sumner's correspondents and the newspapers were silent on this subject, which was destined later to come to the front. He was here, as often, a long way ahead of public sentiment. The Act of March 3, 1871, authorized a commission; and from that time the reform has held its place in the public attention. He wrote to Lieber, January 31:— Did I write to you asking your opinion on introducing the system of competitive examinations for minor offices in our civil department? I have such a bill drawn; but I am not sure if public opinion will sustain me. Again, May 15:— I am astonished at the echo to my little bill on civil service. I matured it alone, without consultation, and flung it on the table of the Senate as a way of drawing attention to the subject. Newspapers and letters show the interest it has ca
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 55: Fessenden's death.—the public debt.—reduction of postage.— Mrs. Lincoln's pension.—end of reconstruction.—race discriminations in naturalization.—the Chinese.—the senator's record.—the Cuban Civil War.—annexation of San Domingo.—the treaties.—their use of the navy.—interview with the presedent.—opposition to the annexation; its defeat.—Mr. Fish.—removal of Motley.—lecture on Franco-Prussian War.—1869-1870. (search)
rwise. July 1, 1870, Congressional Globe, p. 5080. He embodied his views on financial reconstruction and specie payments in bills which he introduced at the beginning of the session, Dec. 7, 1869, Works, vol. XIII. pp. 184, 185; Jan. 12, 1870, Ibid., pp. 234-236. The New York Evening Post, in its leader (January 13), wrote approvingly of his scheme. and maintained them in a series of instructive speeches. Jan. 12, 26, Feb. 1, March 2, 10, 11, 1870, Works, vol. XIII. pp. 237-298; January 31, Congressional Globe, p. 908; March 2, Globe, p. 1634; March 3, Globe, pp. 1660, 1663, 1664; March 9, Globe, p. 1795; March 10, Globe, pp. 1839, 1841; March 11, Globe, pp. 1861, 1871. Except Sherman, no senator at this session contributed so much to the debate on the refunding and consolidation of the public debt. He succeeded in modifying in some points the committee's bill, but in his insistence on definite measures of resumption he was in advance of his associates. Sumner had from h
James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 23: three months in Congress. (search)
d wife pleads—his famishing children implore—but all in vain. Shylock must have his bond, and the husband and father is torn away from them for years—probably for ever. This whole business of recruiting is a systematic robbery of husbands from their wives, fathers from their children, and sons from their widowed and dependent mothers. It is not possible that a Christian people have any need of such a fabric of iniquity, and I call upon this House to unite in decreeing its abolition. Jan. 31st. In Committee of the Whole, the naval appropriation bill being under consideration, Mr. Greeley offered an amendment reducing the list of warrant officers. Rejected. He also spoke for abolishing the grog system. Feb. 1st. Mr. Greeley made a motion to the effect, that no officer of the navy should be promoted, as long as there were owners of the higher rank unemployed. Rejected. Feb 14th. Mr. Greeley submitted the following resolution. Resolved, That the Committee on the Judic<
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1, Chapter 10: the last Roman winter 1897-1898; aet. 78 (search)
en at his instance, instead of thanking him for his benefactions, told him that she intended to make a pilgrimage to the shrine of a certain Madonna, feeling sure that it was to her that she owed her cure. January 26. The day of my reading before the Club, at Jessie Cochrane's rooms. I read my lecture over very carefully in the forenoon and got into the spirit of it. The gathering was a large one, very attentive, and mostly very appreciative. The paper was Woman in the Greek drama. January 31. Have made a special prayer that my mind may be less occupied with my own shortcomings, and more with all that keeps our best hope alive. Felt little able to write, but produced a good page on the principle nulla dies sine linea. February 4. Hard sledding for words todaymade out something about Theodore Parker. February 7. Wrote some pages of introduction for the Symposium — played a rubber of whist with L. Terry; then to afternoon tea with Mrs. Thorndike, where I met the first Mon
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