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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 R. W. Emerson or search for R. W. Emerson in all documents.

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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)
or entered on his duties as senator. It is printed in his Works, vol. i. pp. 184-213. Sumner did not include this lecture in his two volumes published in 1850, and used it again in the winter of 1850-51 at different places in the State,—as at Newton, Stoughton, Greenfield, and Deerfield. As showing the spirit of caste which then lingered in Massachusetts, it may be mentioned that the lyceum at New Bedford adopted a rule excluding colored persons from its privileges. Both Sumner and Emerson, when apprised of the exclusion, withdrew their names from the advertised list of lecturers. A correspondence led to the rescinding of the obnoxious rule, and Sumner gave his lecture in that city. Work, vol. i. P,160. Nineteen rears later, for the same reason he refused to deliver a lecture at Albany. Works, vol. VIII. p. 402. Sumner wrote to Lieber, Nov. 19, 1845:— . . . Two days ago the long suspense was ended, and Everett intimated that he would accept the post of Presid
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 32: the annexation of Texas.—the Mexican War.—Winthrop and Sumner.—1845-1847. (search)
arty. Now an individual has been stolen,—we have not heard that he has been slain,—but he has been carried back to suffer all the wrongs which slavery can inflict. That outrage should rouse the citizens of Massachusetts and the Northern States to call for the abolition of that institution which has caused it. Boston Whig, September 24. The meeting was further addressed by Stephen C. Phillips, Wendell Philips, Theodore Parker, C. F. Adams, and George Boston Whig, September 24.. Emerson. Mr. Parker affirmed the supremacy of divine over human law, and his own allegiance to the former whenever it forbade what the latter enjoins. He and other speakers commented severely on the tone of submission to the aggressions of slavery which prevailed among the ruling classes of the State. The Ex-President withdrew from the chair as his son began to speak, and arrived home at a late hour, without suffering from the fatigue and exposure. Two months later he was smitten with paralysis