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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)
he Free Soilers. Even after the Know Nothing victory in the autumn, the Whig journals, in defending their opposition to a fusion, called the Free Soil leaders unwise, insincere, hypocritical, and unprincipled. Advertiser, November 29; Atlas, November 17. This style of warfare, unworthy as it was, met with a success which it did not deserve. It kept the city Whigs a solid force against the new party, and distracted the country Whigs, who had been well disposed towards it. The Whig journals inction, before the Mercantile Library Association, a lecture on The position and duties of the merchant, illustrated by the life of Granville Sharp. He was received with enthusiasm by the audience which filled Tremont Temple. The Liberator, November 17; Boston Telegraph, November 14. The lecture, though given in a literary course, had, as usual with him, a moral and political aim,—to stimulate peaceable and lawful resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act in imitation of the British philanthropis
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 41: search for health.—journey to Europe.—continued disability.—1857-1858. (search)
g. 1810-1884; an American divine of the Unitarian faith, then in charge of a church in Liverpool; nephew and biographer of William Ellery Channing. November 7. Saturday, my appointed day of sailing. Mr. R. at eleven o'clock drove me to the Adelphi Hotel; at twelve o'clock to the pier, where I embarked on a small steamer with the passengers and their luggage for the steamer Niagara, a Cunard packet bound for Boston; at about three o'clock all was ready, and the voyage commenced. November 17. Tuesday. At midnight reached Halifax. The voyage has not been very rough; the first days were even pleasant; but I have suffered as ever from sea-sickness, and have not yet taken a single meal at the table. Much of my time has been passed in my state-room. . . . Went ashore at Halifax, and took a stroll through Mud and darkness; soon returned to the ship. November 18. At five o'clock this morning the steamer started for Boston. November 19. The day pleasant; harbor of Boston bea