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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 10 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 8 0 Browse Search
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2 5 1 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 5 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: August 31, 1861., [Electronic resource] 4 2 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: June 11, 1861., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 4 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 0 Browse Search
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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)
, imposed the duty of resisting intervention when attempted by one European nation against the independence and freedom of another. Several senators—Cass, Foote, Dawson, and Shields—congratulated their new associate on his speech; and Mason shortly after, pulling his chair near to Sumner's, drew him into a talk on national politirs, freedom, and not slavery, is national; while slavery, and not freedom, is sectional. Works, vol. III. p. 64. Mangum treated the petition with respect; but Dawson made a hot outburst at Sumner's announcement that he proposed to speak at an early day on the slavery question. Seward wrote at the time, Dawson raved at him [SuDawson raved at him [Sumner], and Mangum behaved like a Christian. Seward's Life, vol. II. p. 182. His preparation, which he had expected to complete late in June (the time he had fixed for speaking when the session began), was interrupted by an illness, not serious enough to prevent his attendance on the sessions, but disabling him from work, and enj
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)
icity. Seward wrote, January 4: Everett was on the Douglas committee, and says he objected. I would not have been allowed to be there. （Seward's Life, vol. II. p. 216.) Everett first signified in the Senate his opposition, February 7. It does not appear that his convictions were then against it. He maintained cordial relations with its author during the whole controversy. Three days after the report was made Douglas gave a dinner, at which, as guests, he placed Everett on his right, and Dawson of Georgia, a Whig supporter of the measure, on his left. Another guest, General Wool, gave a toast to the two Whig senators as the Whig candidates for President and Vice-President in 1856. New York Tribune, Jan. 9, 1854. Mr. Everett appears for some weeks to have been uncertain as to what course he should take; and he sought from friends at home, who shared his confidence, information as to the light in which it [the bill] would be regarded in Massachusetts by the judicious part of the