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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 2 2 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wrecks. (search)
ils from New York April 26, and founders; about twenty-five lives lost......May 20, 1853 Steamer San Francisco, bound for California with 700 United States troops, founders at sea, and 240 of the soldiers are swept from the deck and perish......Dec. 23-31, 1853 Ship Staffordshire, from Liverpool to Boston, strikes on Blande Rock, south of Seal Island; 178 lives lost......Dec. 30, 1853 Steamer Georgia, from Montgomery, Ala., destroyed by fire at New Orleans; sixty lives lost......Jan. 28, 1854 Ship Powhatan, from Havre to New York, with 311 emigrants, goes ashore in a gale on Long Beach, 7 miles north of Egg Harbor light, and is wrecked; no passengers saved......April 16, 1854 Steamer Arctic, from Liverpool, struck by the Vesta, 40 miles off Cape Race, Newfoundland, in a fog, and sinks; over 350 lives lost......Sept. 27, 1854 Collins line steamer Pacific leaves Liverpool for New York with 240 persons on board and is never heard from......Sept. 23, 1856 French stea
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)
, had descended to the level of his party. He openly declined to discuss further the Fugitive Slave law in popular assemblies, and withheld his vote when its repeal was moved in the Senate. Seward's Works, vol. III. p. 432. His letter of Jan. 28, 1854, contains a singular explanation of his silence, referring his abstinence from discussions concerning slavery to his desire not to injure a just cause by discussions which might seem to betray undue solicitude, if not a spirit of faction! Charovision a little stump speech injected into the belly of the bill. The antislavery newspapers gave the alarm even before the bill was printed by the Senate. New York Tribune, Jan. 6, 9, 10; New York Evening Post, Jan. 6, 7, 17, 24, 25, 26, 28, 1854; Boston Commonwealth, Jan. 9, 11, 16, 21; National Era, Jan. 12, 19, 26, and Feb. 2, 9, 16, 23, 1854. There are brief references to the scheme in the New York Evening Post, Dec. 10, 15, 1853. The National Era, as early as April 14, 1853, in