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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)
nothing of it. Fashion has set her seal upon Agassiz's lectures on the animal creation, and on glaciers. . . . William Story has published a volume Poems. which would have seemed better if it had not appeared by the side of Emerson's. It has beauty, and is full of the spirit of humanity. He has also published a grave and valuable law book on the Law of Sales, while the bust of his father in marble has taken its place in the Library. Poet, jurist, sculptor, musician! To Dr. Lieber, March 22:— Hillard's lectures on Milton are a triumph, greater than was ever before enjoyed in Boston. These lectures were not published, and it is possible that Sumner's friendly interest in the author may have led him to estimate too highly their value. The large Tremont Temple is crammed with an audience of fashion and intelligence, charmed by his exquisite delivery and his clear and consecutive history of Milton's life and genius. Last evening he lifted his audience to a state of rapt at
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)
, moved by filial sentiments, but with unchanged judgment, retired from the controversy. Sumner, at his request, took temporary charge of the Whig during February and till near the end of March, Leaders March 1, 9, 10, 16, and 23, 1848, bear intrinsic evidence of being written by Sumner. but in consonance with Adams's wishes refrained from comments upon Winthrop, and only recurred to the subject in printing a summary of Giddings's published statement concerning the Speaker. March 18 and 22. Adams withdrew from the paper early in April, and desired Sumner to be his successor; but the latter declined, as appears in a letter to Palfrey:— I am placed in a dilemma which is most trying. Adams appeals to me to take charge of the Whig. His present relations with Winthrop and his new and absorbing duties make him think that he cannot continue to conduct it. It is very hard for me to decline this duty; but I fear that it would be harder still to assume it. To conduct the Whig at
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 35: Massachusetts and the compromise.—Sumner chosen senator.—1850-1851. (search)
s not moral power enough in Boston to execute the laws of the Commonwealth when they conflicted with the interests of the slave-power. Adams's Biography of Dana, vol. i. pp. 187, 192. The two leading journals of the city showed the temper which pervaded its society and capital. The Advertiser printed with implied sanction a communication which could bear no other construction than the suggestion to merchants to withdraw their patronage from Dana; May 10, 1851, signed E. See article March 22, suggesting to Southern men not to trade with Lynn manufacturers who are concerned in the warfare against the Union. and shortly after it admitted another article in favor of withdrawing confidence and business from men like Sumner, Mann, and Dana. June 2, signed Son of a Merchant. Adams's Biography of Dana, vol. i. p. 198. The Courier, in an elaborate and bitter leader, called for the exclusion of Dana, Dr. Howe, and Theodore Parker from society and patronage. June 9. The Courier,