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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 8: early professional life.—September, 1834, to December, 1837.—Age, 23-26. (search)
rtineau, who was in Boston in 1835, he showed his strong feelings on the subject by his denunciation of pro-slavery mobs; and he was one of the class, as she afterwards said, to whom she referred, in her Society in America, Vol. I. p. 130. Harriet Martineau's Autobiography (Memorials), Vol. II. p. 295. as expressing the determination to set themselves against such violence. He began the same year to read the Liberator; and it was the first paper for which he subscribed. He wrote April 9, 1850: I have read the Liberator more or less since 1835. It was the first paper I ever subscribed for. Wendell Phillips, in a speech of Jan. 27, 1853, said: My old and valued friend, Mr. Sumner, often boasts that he was a reader of the Liberator before I was. Speeches, Lectures, and Letters of Wendell Phillips, p. 135. Sumner's personal relations with Rev. Dr. William E. Channing were formed as early as this period, probably beginning with an introduction by George Gibbs, a nephew of D
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 24: Slavery and the law of nations.—1842.—Age, 31. (search)
anding these differences in opinion and action, he had never any controversy with the Abolitionists. They usually treated him with exceptional good — will and confidence; and if any dealt harshly with him, he made no public answer,— simply saying to any one who called his attention to their criticisms: We are all striving for the same end,—they in their way, and I in mine; and I can have no controversy with them. His view of the policy of the Abolitionists is shown in a letter he wrote April 9, 1850, in reply to a friend who justified his own opposition to the Anti-slavery movement by urging their violent language:— I have read the Liberator more or less, since 1835. It was the first paper I ever subscribed for. His subscribing for the Liberator at that early day was an exceptional case in his profession. Few lawyers read it, much less subscribed for it. Ellis Gray Loring and Samuel E. Sewall,—the latter still living,—were conspicuous instances of the few Antislavery l