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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 2 2 Browse Search
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career. 1 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 1 1 Browse Search
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Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 7: (search)
ant party, Mr. Sumner and his compeers had a grand idea; they had a sentiment of humanity, deepseated in the heart of the people, to sustain them: and they thus went boldly forward, turning neither to the right nor left, to the accomplishment of one of the most transcendently beneficent political undertakings of these modern times. In a hopeful and well-written oration on the Law of human progress, pronounced before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Union College, Schenectady, on the 25th day of July, 1848, Mr. Sumner, sweeping with an eagle eye over the various social systems of the past, indicates their points of weakness, but still acknowledges the steady march of civilization; and, under the benignant influences of Christianity and the printing-press, ardently anticipates a brighter day for science, art, literature, freedom, and humanity. Of the anomaly of Greek and Roman civilization, he thus eloquently discourses:-- There are revolutions in history which may seem, on a supe
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)
, the moral doctrine of the work, still more than its literary execution, which increases the claim, already established by your previous public efforts, to the approbation and the gratitude of the friends of truth and humanity. In my apprehension, you are doing a work which will last, because it is true. The truth can never die; and if beauty, as well as truth, is immortal, as I believe it is, your orations, as it seems to me, have a twofold pledge of perpetuity. Sumner delivered, July 25, 1848, an oration at Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., on The Law of Human Progress. Works, vol. II. pp. 89-138. He sought and received from his friend George W. Greene, then a professor in Brown University, suggestions as to historical statements concerning the topic of the address. His theme, as he treated it, had an obvious relation to the agitations of the period. He sought to encourage reformers with the hope of ultimate success, and to break the force of the conservatism which then
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)
, as many another sermon,—nay, as almost all, even what sound to other men like the war-horse of a soldier. Howe was here like a perturbed spirit for a few days, and then suddenly departed. Sumner's mind while a senator was always diverging to congenial studies. Reading in the National Intelligencer an anonymous article on Comte, which touched on the idea of a regular and progressive course of events in history,—a topic which he had treated in a college address, At Schenectady, . July 25, 1848, on The Law of Human Progress vol. II. pp. 89-138.—he sent, to the care of that journal, a note of sympathy and thanks to the author, who proved to be Dr. J. C. Welling, then a regular contributor to the Intelligencer, later one of its editors, and afterwards President of Columbian College, Washington, D. C. This was the beginning of a friendship based on common tastes in literature rather than on agreement in the political controversies of the time. The following is Sumner's second no<
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 2 (search)
ent at the battles of Roanoke Island, New Berne, Kinston, Goldsboroa, Washington, Core Creek, Gum Swamp, White Hall. Resigned, May 27, 1863. Brevet Colonel and Brig. General, U. S. Volunteers, Mar. 13, 1865. Died at Montreal, Canada, Nov. 12, 1889. McGinnis, George Francis. Born at Boston, Mass., Mar. 19, 1826. Served during the Mexican War as First Lieutenant, 2d Ohio Infantry, May 29, 1846. Mustered out, June 21, 1847. Captain, 2d Ohio Infantry, July 16, 1847. Mustered out, July 25, 1848. Private, 11th Ind. Infantry, three months service, Apr. 15, 1861. Captain, Apr. 16, 1861. Lieut. Colonel, Apr. 25, 1861. Engaged in the capture of Romney, Va., June 11, 1861. Joined General Pattison's command at Bunker Hill, Va., July 29, 1861. Mustered out, Aug. 4, 1861. Lieut. Colonel, 11th Ind. Infantry, three years service, Aug. 7, 1861; mustered, Aug. 31, 1861. Colonel, Sept. 3, 1861. Engaged in expedition to Calloway's Landing, Tennessee River, Sept. 11, 1861, to Feb. 5, 18