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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)
were pleased to find their sentiments against slavery represented in the lecture room. Works, vol. i. p. 384. Josiah Quincy wrote, May 15, 1847, after reading the lecture: The perusal once commenced could not be remitted until it was closed, so interesting were the details, so just the reflections, so noble the spirit, and so happy its adaptation. It is alike honorable to the heart and head of its author. C. F. Adams wrote a notice of the address for his paper, The Boston Whig. January 3, 1848. Like others of Sumner's friends, he had dissented from some of the broadest affirmations of the latter's Fourth of July oration, and in this notice he remarked improvement in the orator's style and method, which would make his appeals more persuasive with practical men. He said: There is the same glow in the style and richness of illustration that has marked all his preceding performances, whilst with the same high moral tone is blended greater caution than formerly in the statement of
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)
) Berrien of Georgia, and Evans of Maine, senators, also refused to vote on it. Giddings's History of the Rebellion, pp. 253, 265. Thee Massachusetts members present, except two, voted with the minority. the mass of Whig members, except only the sixteen, thus voted for a bill supplying the means for a war which they believed to have been unjustly and unconstitutionally begun, and containing a declaration as to its origin which they pronounced historically false. They voted in a body, Jan. 3, 1848, that the war was unnecessarily and unconstitutionally begun by the President of the United States. The apology which they generally made for submitting to the humiliation forced on them by the Democratic partisans of the Administration was that the means provided by the bill were necessary for the succor of our troops; but this plea had no justification in the circumstances, and with most who urged it was only a pretext. For immediate relief the troops authorized by the bill could not b