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Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1 37 3 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 27 5 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. 21 15 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 16 2 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: November 9, 1861., [Electronic resource] 15 15 Browse Search
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct. 14 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 12 6 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: November 1, 1861., [Electronic resource] 10 6 Browse Search
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 8 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies 7 5 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3. You can also browse the collection for Devens or search for Devens in all documents.

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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 34: the compromise of 1850.—Mr. Webster. (search)
God! It was described as a mere political clap-trap speech, intended for the Southern market. （Adams's Biography of Dana, vol. i. p. 191.) The writer was present, and well remembers the scene. The room was crowded, chiefly with the claimant's supporters, and this un-judicial outburst was received with applause. Sumner insisted on the prisoner's discharge, maintaining that Commissioner Hallett's warrant charging Sims with assaulting the officer when arrested was defective, and that Marshal Devens's conduct—on which he commented at length—was illegal in not returning the warrant, but holding it as a cover to defeat a State criminal process against Sims which the prisoner's friends had procured in order to hold him against Commissioner Curtis's order of rendition. Sumner, as he began, said that the prisoner, though under arrest for seven days, and carried from place to place, had now for the first time the privilege of looking on the face of a judge,—an allusion to the unjudicial