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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)
sition of peculiar and commanding influence will enable you to render a service to it higher than has ever been rendered before. The soul aches in contemplating the annual wastes of Europe on armies and navies. Civilization demands the disarming of the nations. . . . Let me add that whatever you do or say is not merely for England, but for the civilized world, and that thousands of hearts which you know not will throb responsive to yours. To George Sumner, February 12:— On the 5th February I remembered your birthday, and felt that you as well as myself had passed from the lists of young men. I did long to see you bringing your noble gifts and attainments to bear directly upon mankind, not by incidental and occasional productions, but by constant and daily efforts. I longed to see you make a mark not merely in society, but on human thought and conduct. Society is a pleasant pastime, but an unsatisfactory employment. The men of action in America are too indifferent to it,
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)
en so little intercourse and commingling among senators of opposite opinions. Seward, Wilson, and myself are the special marks of disfavor. God willing, something more shall be done to deserve this distinction Sumner wrote to C. F. Adams, February 5:— There are circumstances at this moment which draw special attention to the Monroe doctrine, and which would give strong interest to any revelation from your father's diary; but of course this could not be done without associating his nameed 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 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.)
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, chapter 14 (search)
American newspapers, and till this week not one from Boston. But the conduct of our government fills me with sorrow; you cannot conceive the depths to which it degrades us, and the mill-stone which it hangs upon the liberties of Europe. I long to see the name of the republic a strength to the liberal cause instead of a weakness. Nobody now ventures to cite our example except to condemn us. It was not so Once; it will not be so when true ideas prevail at Washington. To C. F. Adams, February 5:— I am inclined to believe that had you been in my condition, after more than two years of ups and downs,—still a serious sufferer. unable to do what you had most at heart, and with chances most menacing, worse than death,—you would have intrusted yourself unreservedly to medical skill which had already inspired your confidence by a most careful and intelligent diagnosis. This was a reply to Mr. Adams's protest against another recourse to the heroic remedies. Ante, p. 572. I wil<