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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)
n observing the rules of decorum, and had given no occasion for a personal grievance, confining himself in the treatment of the slavery as well as other questions to a discussion of measures and policies, even in his main speech on the Nebraska bill, and abstaining from any impeachment of motives or any altercations with senators. Douglas in debate, March 3, 1854, admitted Sumner's bland manners and amiable deportment up to the time of the Nebraska contest. The National Intelligencer, Oct. 5, 1854, while contending against his positions, wrote: But we are bound to admit that in his most excited discourses in the Senate on this subject,—that is, on questions affecting these rights,—as well as in his general personal intercourse (so far as we are informed), he has not been in the habit of transgressing the bounds of parliamentary law or the requirements of courtesy and good breeding. A similar tribute was given in the New York Evening Post, June 1, and the Wheeling (Va.) Gazette, qu
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 40: outrages in Kansas.—speech on Kansas.—the Brooks assault.—1855-1856. (search)
The senator has not forgotten that on a former occasion I did something to exhibit the plantation manners which he displays. I will not do any more now. In all this Sumner was no aggressor. He had from first entering the Senate, as a Washington journalist politically unfriendly admitted, observed uniformly, even in the treatment of the slavery question, parliamentary law as well as the requirements of courtesy and good breeding in his personal intercourse. National Intelligencer, Oct. 5, 1854. Banks said at Waltham, Sept. 6, 1856, that Sumner had never spoken a harsh or unfeeling word to his fellow-man in his life. Boston Telegraph, Sept. 6, 1856. It will be recalled how during his first session he bore without retort or notice the epithets applied to him at the time of his speech against the Fugitive Slave Act,—for which he had not given the slightest provocation. It was his fixed purpose when he came to that body to discuss laws, policies, and institutions fully and fearl