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Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career. 6 0 Browse Search
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Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 10: (search)
Chapter 10: Mr. Sumner's Tribute to Mr. Downing. his speech at Lowell. his speech respecting Armories. Mr. Sumner as a Correspondent. his Letters. the Pacific Railroad. Secret Sessions of the Senate. his election to Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, 1853. his speech on Military Affairs. on the basis of of sorrow. On the twenty-fifth day of August, 1852, he made a touching appeal in the Senate on behalf of the widow of the accomplished landscape-gardener Andrew Jackson Downing, who was lost in his noble efforts to save the passengers of the ill-fated steamer Henry Clay, burned on the Hudson River on the twenty-eighth day of the eceding. He closed his remarks by this just tribute to the memory of the lamented artist: Few men in the public service have vindicated a title to regard above Mr. Downing. At the age of thirty-seven he has passed away, dead ere his prime, like Lycidas, also, stretched on a watery bier, leaving behind a reputation above that of a