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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 44: Secession.—schemes of compromise.—Civil War.—Chairman of foreign relations Committee.—Dr. Lieber.—November, 1860– April, 1861. (search)
f a Union meeting in its support were William Appleton, Albert Fearing, James M. Beebe, and Josiah G. Abbott. The meeting was held February 5, in Faneuil Hall, with Mayor Wightman in the chair; and among the speakers were J. Thomas Stevenson, B. R. Curtis, and H. F. Durant. Seward and Adams were applauded at the meeting. Durant denounced Sumner, and referred to the break between him and Adams. At a workingmen's meeting, so called, held February 19, in the same place, in support of the compnterference with slavery in the States. During the winter there was a determined effort in Massachusetts to repeal the personal liberty law of the State. An appeal to that effect, signed by Chief-Justice Shaw, recently retired from office, B. R. Curtis, Joel Parker, George Ticknor, and a large number of persons of high standing, was published in the papers and presented to the Legislature. It was supported by leading Boston journals. George Ashmun, who had presided at the national Republic