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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career. 1 1 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
te to the United States, and if the Sultan of Turkey will consent......March 3, 1851 Thirty-first Congress adjourns......March 3, 1851 [At this time it was decided that Congress expires at noon on the fourth day of March.] Com. James Barron dies at Norfolk, Va., aged eighty-three......April 21, 1851 President Fillmore issues a proclamation against the promoters of a second expedition against Cuba, and the ship Cleopatra, with military supplies for that island, is seized......April 25, 1851 First train on the Erie Railway, New York to Dunkirk......April 28, 29, 1851 Extension of the United States Capitol; corner-stone laid by the President; oration by Daniel Webster......July 4, 1851 [Extension finished, November, 1867.] General Lopez's second expedition against Cuba......Aug. 3, 1851 Louis Kossuth and suite received on the United States war steamer Mississippi at the Dardanelles......Sept. 10, 1851 James Fenimore Cooper, author, dies at Cooperstown, N. Y.
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 9. (search)
work with the Whig party on all questions but one,--a vital and momentous one, it is true, as he will find when he gets to Washington. Massachusetts might have seated in the Senate a man far more objectionable than Charles Sumner. Vive la Republique! The world swung forward by this victory; and unusual demonstrations signalized the joy of the triumphant party. On the next day Mr. Sumner frankly avowed his indebtedness for his success to Henry Wilson. Craigie House, Cambridge, April 25, 1851. My dear Wilson I have this moment read your remarks of last night, which I think peculiarly happy. You touched the right chord. I hope not to seem cold or churlish in thus withdrawing from all the public manifestations of triumph to which our friends are prompted. In doing so, I follow the line of reserve which you know I have kept to throughout the contest; and my best judgment at this moment satisfies me that I am right. You, who have seen me familiarly and daily from the begin
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 35: Massachusetts and the compromise.—Sumner chosen senator.—1850-1851. (search)
finer point than lie; but for the difficult task then on hand he had no peer. It is pleasant to make this record of one who, though he was himself ambitious, was loyal to his party and its cause, and was at no time the selfseeker that he was sometimes unjustly thought to be. Sumner, always ready to recognize other men's worth, wrote to Wilson, the day after the election, a letter in which he did no more than justice to the latter's remarkable services. Craigie House, Cambridge, April 25, 1851. my dear Wilson,—I have this moment read your remarks of last night, which I think peculiarly happy. You touched the right chord. I hope not to seem cold or churlish in thus withdrawing from all the public manifestations of triumph to which our friends are prompted. In doing so I follow the line of reserve which you know I have kept to throughout the contest, and my best judgment at the moment satisfies me that I am right. You who have seen me familiarly and daily from the beginni