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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 20: Italy.—May to September, 1839.—Age, 28. (search)
the tomb of the Curiatii, descried the dome of St. Peter's and Rome! I have now driven within sight of the Colosseum and the Arch of Constantine, and under Trajan's Column! My fondest expectations are all on tiptoe. Good-by and love to you all. Most affectionately ever, Charles Sumner. To William H. Prescott, Boston. Piazza di Spagna, Rome, June 28, 1839. my dear Sir,—Amidst saddening and perplexing intelligence from opposite quarters, I received your agreeable letter of the 18th April. Ante,Vol. I. p. 308, note. I have done nothing worthy of the thanks you have been so good as to send me. The debt is on my side; for, over and above the great satisfaction I derived from the hasty perusal of your work (during a few of the odd hours rescued from society and sight-seeing), I experienced in England a constant pleasure from the honor which it has reflected upon our country, and the favorable impression it is calculated to inspire with regard to the American mind. Wherever
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 24: Slavery and the law of nations.—1842.—Age, 31. (search)
dvice was sought in relation to them. Sumner's great interest in the Creole question is noted by Mr. Ticknor, who names him as the only person he met, who was vehement against Mr. Webster's letter. Life of George Ticknor, Vol. II. p. 199. It appears also in his vigorous letters, written at the time, to Mr. Harvey and Dr. Lieber. He replied in the Advertiser to some legal criticisms which a correspondent of that journal had made on Dr. Channing's pamphlet. His article was printed April 18. The articles of Dr. Channing's critic, signed C., were printed April 14 and 25. In this reply, he said:— It would ill accord with the spirit of English law to allow the liberty of a human being to be restrained by the meshes of technicalities like those woven by the writer in the Advertiser. The single vigorous principle that within the British Empire no right of property can exist in a human being extends like a flaming sword around all its courts and territories, cutting asunder