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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)
was one of the reasons he gave for not going. From time to time he borrowed small sums of Howe and Longfellow, which were promptly repaid. He had then as always a dread of being in debt; and was for some time quite unhappy about a note he had improvidently given for the benefit of a State Normal School, where others equally interested failed to meet his expectations in sharing the burden. 1 Ante, vol. II. p. 328. Sumner's Orations and Speeches, in two volumes, were published in November, 1850, by Messrs. W. D. Ticknor and Co., The publication was talked over with Longfellow a year before. Longfellow's Life, vol. II. p. 136. These volumes did not include his lecture on The Employment of Time. A third volume, entitled Recent Speeches and Addresses, was published in 1856, a second edition of which contained Sumner's speech on The Crime against Kansas. and were going through the press during the spring and summer of that year. He made very many changes and corrections, not
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 36: first session in Congress.—welcome to Kossuth.—public lands in the West.—the Fugitive Slave Law.—1851-1852. (search)
re at the North and out of danger. Boston Commonwealth, August 12. See articles in the Commonwealth, August 12 and 24, explaining the senator's action, the second signed E. L. P., which the Liberator copied, promising a reply, which did not, however, appear. It was considered at the time that Sumner had achieved a remarkable success, particularly in view of the strong language he had used concerning the President's signature of the Fugitive Slave bill in his speech at Faneuil Hall in November, 1850. The Washington Union, the Democratic organ, attributed the pardon to his efforts, saying it was an influence which should not have been heeded. The Whig press of Boston was, according to its custom, silent as to his share in procuring it. The editor of the Liberator had berated him in his paper and in a public meeting for not presenting the petition in the Senate, accusing him of want of backbone and treachery to freedom, and would not accept an explanation of Sumner's reasons for avo
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 39: the debate on Toucey's bill.—vindication of the antislavery enterprise.—first visit to the West.—defence of foreign-born citizens.—1854-1855. (search)
unhappily the indictment was quashed on a technicality, and the prosecution went no further. Those who started it were quite content with its failure at this stage, for they shrunk from facing an adversary so intrepid and so well armed. Sumner wrote to Parker:— I am glad you have been indicted,—pardon me!—for the sake of our cause and your own fame. Of course you will defend yourself, and answer the whilom speaker An allusion to an encounter between B. R. Curtis and Parker in November, 1850, in Faneuil Hall, when the latter offered to answer a question put by the former to the latter, who was not supposed to be present. at Faneuil Hall face to face. . . . Upon the whole, I regard your indictment as a call to a new parish, with B. R. Curtis and B. F. Hallett United States District Attorney. as deacons, and a pulpit higher than the Strasburg steeple. .. Of course you must speak for yourself before Pontius Pilate. I think you should make the closing speech, and review the <