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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)
nies, who are by no means without a sense of fun, had arranged the flat, dead surface and neutral tints of Everett on purpose for a background on which your portrait might be seen to better advantage. Dr. O. W. Holmes wrote from Pittsfield, August 20:— I read all your speeches, always admiring their spirit, their temper, their scholarship, whether I go with then on all points or not. I had just been asking all about you of quiet and amiable Mr. Rockwell, your colleague, when I took yohich for six years had been familiar to the public,—the volume of abuse falling as usual most heavily on Wilson. Advertiser, July 17, 20; August 2, 5, 8, 15, 31; September 5, 8. Atlas, July 1, 22, 24, 26, 27, 28; August 10; September 4, 15, 18, 20; October 14. Journal, June 30; July 19, 22; August 14, 22, 31; September 6, 8, 9. The Atlas (September 8) called Wilson the ambitious and unscrupulous leader of the Free Soilers. Even after the Know Nothing victory in the autumn, the Whig journa
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)
l nights, a sense of weight on the brain, and a dull throbbing pain in the head, indications of coming paralysis; the entire chain of symptoms soon pointing to the head and spine as the seat of a highly morbid condition. Dr. Jackson's letter to Wilson, Boston Telegraph, Sept. 24, 1856, printed in Sumner's Works, vol. IV. pp. 340-342. Other accounts were given by Mrs. Swisshelm in the New York Tribune, August 28, and by Rev. Dr. Furness, by letter of August 18, in the Boston Transcript. August 20. Theodore Parker wrote George Sumner, August 12: It seems to me his condition is very critical and perilous. I have never thought he would recover. Seward wrote, August 17: Sumner is contending with death in the mountains of Pennsylvania. Seward's Life, vol. II. p. 287. Though quickly prostrated by attempts at walking, He was able to take daily rides on horseback. Among friendly visitors to Cresson were Rev. Dr. Furness, Anson Burlingame, Mr. Coffee, afterwards of the attorney-gener