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James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen 4 0 Browse Search
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James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen, Anna Elizabeth Dickinson. (search)
of hearing you, we unite in cordially inviting you to deliver an address this winter at the capital, at some time suited to your own convenience. Washington, D. C., December 16, 1863. H. Hamlin, J. H. Lane, James Dixon, Charles Sumner, H. B. Anthony, Henry Wilson, John Sherman, Ira Harris, Ben. F. Wade, and sixteen other Senators. Schuyler Colfax, A. C. Wilder, Thaddeus Stevens, Henry C. Deming, William D. Kelley, Robert C. Schenck, J. A. Garfield, R. B. Van Valkenburg, and seventy other Representatives. Hon. Hannibal Hamlin, Vice-President of the United States Hon. Schuyler Colfax, Speaker of the House of Representatives Hons. J. H. Lane, James Dixon, Charles Sumner, H. B. Anthony, Henry Wilson, John Sherman, A. C. Wilder, Thaddeus Stevens, Henry C. Deming, William D. Kelley. Robert C. Schenck, J. A. Garfield, and others: Gentlemen,--I thank you sincerely for the great and most unexpected honor which you have conferred upon me by your kind invitation to speak
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 54: President Grant's cabinet.—A. T. Stewart's disability.—Mr. Fish, Secretary of State.—Motley, minister to England.—the Alabama claims.—the Johnson-Clarendon convention.— the senator's speech: its reception in this country and in England.—the British proclamation of belligerency.— national claims.—instructions to Motley.—consultations with Fish.—political address in the autumn.— lecture on caste.—1869. (search)
following closely its points and meeting his objections. The speech met with unusual favor with senators from both parties, particularly with those most conservative and pacific. There was no word of dissent or qualification from any quarter. Anthony, who was in the chair, sent at once to Sumner a bit of paper with these words and his initials: That was a great speech. The leader in the Providence Journal, April 20, 1869, was presumably written by Senator Anthony, who was its editor as weSenator Anthony, who was its editor as well as chief proprietor. It approved the speech as free from the spirit of hostility and revenge, and representing the views of the senators as well as public opinion. Fessenden was the first to approve; and he was followed by Sherman, Howard, Morton, Scott, Thurman, Casserly, Stockton, Chandler, and Warner. Fessenden and other senators, in personal congratulations and in public remarks, commended particularly its moderation and conciliatory spirit. New York Tribune, April 14; New York Time