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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 82 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 12 0 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3 4 0 Browse Search
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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)
n reform, where often the brunt of the conflict fell on them. Sumner's visits to his friend at the Institution for the Blind at South Boston were constant. He was one of its trustees. Dr. Howe's rooms were at the time the resort of many who were interested in the moral agitations of the period, Palfrey's diary, Dec. 11, 1846, records his going to Dr. Howe's in the evening to meet John C. Vaughan, of Kentucky, where also were Sumner, Richard Hildreth, C. F. Adams, J. A. Andrew, and John W. Browne. Longfellow wrote in his diary, Nov. 16, 1849: Dined at Howe's. A very pleasant dinner. Palfrey, Adams, Sumner, young Dana, all and several Free Soilers. I, a singer, came into the camp as Alfred among the Danes. and who found there not only ethical inspiration, but also, in the society of both sexes, wit, culture, and the love of art and music. Rt. Rev. F. D. Huntington, now Bishop of Central New York. wrote, in 1886:— Everything that calls up the image or reviews the life
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 36: first session in Congress.—welcome to Kossuth.—public lands in the West.—the Fugitive Slave Law.—1851-1852. (search)
you will make it. But when by speaking you feel that you would only drown your own testimony by the sound of your own voice, then it is not such as I am who desire you to break your silence. Joshua Leavitt wrote from New York, June 11:— I like your course, and especially that it is yours, and not any other man's. I told you at the outset to take time, act deliberately, so as to have nothing to take back, and not be in a hurry, and let croakers croak. Sumner's college chum, John W. Browne, identified with the radical section of the antislavery movement, who was still following his classmate's course with a friend's eye and heart, wrote June 18:— Don't let the unjust and ill-considered words said here about your tardiness to speak on this subject press you to speak one moment earlier than your nature and instincts are ready to the utmost to do their own spontaneous work, and upon their own occasion. Take your time, by the force of your own nature, in your own method