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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)
it Sodom) as a fulfiller of all your pledges will be saved. Theodore Parker, though deeply regretting that Sumner delayed his speech so long, nevertheless expressed publicly no distrust of him, and made an apology for his silence at a meeting, July 5, in Abington. His very cordial and frank letters to Sumner himself rather imply a fear that his fibre was not quite so strong as it should be, and needed to be stiffened. Those of Sumner's constituents who knew him best, and had learned the ng. Should you do so, you would be openly denounced by nine tenths of our people. They say they are daily tormented about your silence by the Whigs all over the State, and many of them think you will not speak at all. John Jay wrote to him, July 5, a letter from New York, which reviewed at length the situation from a personal as well as public point of view, and enforced the vital importance of not allowing the session to close without a full discussion on his part of the slavery question.
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 38: repeal of the Missouri Compromise.—reply to Butler and Mason.—the Republican Party.—address on Granville Sharp.—friendly correspondence.—1853-1854. (search)
ed. To use his own words, The violence was postponed, but the malignant spirit continued active. Works, vol. III. pp. 347-350, where the newspaper articles are in part given. See also Boston Atlas, June 14; New York Evening Post, June 1 and July 5. Sumner wrote to Theodore Parker, June 12:— The great petition for the repeal of the Fugitive Slave bill ought to be presented in the Senate, when its character and history can be recorded, and a debate upon it provoked. In the House ibe found in the Boston Advertiser, July 11; Boston Journal, June 30; Boston Transcript, June 30; New Bedford Mercury, July 1; Springfield Republican, June 30, July 7 and 11; New York Tribune, June 28,29, and 30; New York Evening Post, June 29 and July 5; New York Times, June 30; Wheeling (Va.) Gazette (quoted in Boston Commonwealth, September 4); Liberator, July 28. The mercantile press of Boston was obliged at last to yield to the public demand for his speeches, hitherto accessible only through
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)
Senate were doing, and the course of conduct and debate therein. When he spoke of his health, he said he thought he was getting better now; but his vivacity of spirit and his impatience for study are gone. It is impossible to regard him without apprehension. Seward's Life, vol. II. p. 282. When Sumner declared his purpose to make another speech before the session closed, Seward replied: If you do it, it will be the last speech you will make in this world. Sumner came to Washington, July 5, in order to go North and escape the intense heat. During the day he had many visitors, including Dr. Bailey of the National Era, Mr. Banks the Speaker, Mr. Comins, and Mr. Giddings. Mr. Giddings thus spoke of this interview in a speech July 11: Lying upon his bed, he described to me the singular sensations which occasionally gave him reason to apprehend that the brain was affected; and looking me full in the face, with great solemnity of countenance and deep emotion, he said: I sometime
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 41: search for health.—journey to Europe.—continued disability.—1857-1858. (search)
Mr. Webb Of Philadelphia. read. July 4. Gave up an engagement to dine with the Law Amendment Society at Greenwich, with Lord Brougham in the chair, that I might avoid public speaking; went to Cliveden, the villa of the Duchess of Sutherland, to pass Sunday; there were the Bishop of Oxford (Wilberforce), Gladstone, Labouchere Afterwards Lord Taunton. He married the daughter of the sixth Earl of Carlisle. and his wife, the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, Charles Howard; pleasant talk. July 5. Sunday. Heard the bishop preach twice; pleasant talk again, and most hospitable welcome. July 6. Lady Mary Labouchere took Gladstone and myself to her place, The estate has been sold. the famous Stoke, with the churchyard where Gray was buried, and part of the old manor-house where Sir Edward Coke died; walked with Gladstone two miles to the railroad; enjoyed his conversation much; in the evening dined with Lord Brougham, and met a most distinguished company,— the Lord Chancellor, Lo