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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)
at we shall never again be dwellers in the same neighborhood, so that I shall not enjoy more the free social converse under your roof which has been one of the solaces of a bachelor. Your fates will keep you in high places far from mine. In 1874 Mr. Bancroft had arranged for a winter home in Washington, and counted as one of the attractions of his new home a renewal of familiar intercourse with Sumner, which the Senator's death prevented. cordially received him. The last named wrote in December, 1850: We shall always have a plate for you at five o'clock, and we will add the stalled ox to our dinner of herbs, and have no strife. He visited William Jay at Bedford. Other visits were to his classmate Henry Winthrop Sargent at Fishkill-on-the-Hudson, to the Grangers at Canandaigua, the Wadsworths at Geneseo, and the Porters at Niagara. Occasionally he visited Saratoga. Sometimes he extended his journey to Canada. He had friends there,—among them Lord Elgin, Lord Elgin was the brot
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 35: Massachusetts and the compromise.—Sumner chosen senator.—1850-1851. (search)
y of men to drive you from power, rebuke Daniel Webster, and place in his seat a senator true to the principles and sentiments of the Commonwealth. Wilson's Rise and Fall, vol. II. pp. 247-258. He was as good as his word, and did more than any one else to fulfil his prophecy. In his newspaper he denounced Webster as the great apostate, and invoked a combined effort to prevent his re-election. Emancipator and Republican, June 20, 1850. Wilson was its editor from January, 1849, to December, 1850. As chairman of the Free-Soil State committee, he called a conference of leading Free Soilers—inviting one hundred, of whom more than one half attended—to meet the committee at the Adams House in Boston, September 10. Wilson's Rise and Fall, vol. II. pp. 341-343. It was a meet in, as he says, remarkable for its large proportion of thoughtful and cultivated men, and men, too, of irreproachable character and unblemished integrity. He presided at the meeting, and stated that its purpo