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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)
as perhaps a consciousness of superior intelligence and a restive discontent under the success of notorious inferiority. Sumner's way of speaking of the things he had done, and of what others had said of them, had this extent, no more. E. P. Whipple, a critic of character, who knew Sumner well, has treated the charge of vanity imputed to him, noting his entire freedom from all envy and his greater interest in the achievements of others than in his own,—Recollections of Charles Sumner, Harper's Magazine, July, 1879, pp. 275, 276. The same charge is referred to by James Freeman Clarke in his estimate, Memorial and Biographical Sketches, p. 96. It was dismissed as of little account by A. G. Thurman and E. R. Hoar in their tributes in Congress, April 27, 1874. Congressional Globe, pp. 3400, 3410. After his death, Whittier thus wrote:— Safely his dearest friends may own The slight defects he never hid, The surface-blemish in the stone Of the tall, stately pyramid. What if he felt
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 31: the prison—discipline debates in Tremont Temple.—1846-1847. (search)
candid statement, and quoted, without adopting, the still stronger animadversions of foreign writers. Provoked by what he thought to be Mr. Eliot's overbearing manner and personal reflections on Dr. Howe and himself, Sumner made in his second speech several personal references to Eliot, using terms hardly proper for a young man to apply to his seniors, except under provocation. Some of Sumner's friends thought his personal references in this debate needlessly cutting. E. P. Whipple in Harper's Magazine, May, 1879, p. 276. I will borrow, he said as he began, from the honorable treasurer, with his permission, something of his frankness without his temper,—a thrust which, an eye-witness says, made Mr. Eliot start as if he had been shot Later on in the speech Sumner spoke of him as the Achilles of the debate, impiger, iracundus, inexorabilis, acer,—saying also that he had in the course of a short speech contrived to announce himself as treasurer of the Boston Prison Discipline Socie
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 40: outrages in Kansas.—speech on Kansas.—the Brooks assault.—1855-1856. (search)
son he was walking in the Congressional cemetery, when George William Curtis, his companion, pointed out to him the cenotaph of Brooks, which he had not before observed.—He stood silent before it for a few moments, and then turning away, said, Poor fellow, poor fellow! Curtis then asked him, How did you feel about Brooks? His reply was, Only as to a brick that should fall upon my head from a chimney. He was the unconscious agent of a malign power. Mr. Curtis gave a part of the above in Harper's Monthly, June, 1874 ( Editor's Easy Chair ), and the remainder in conversation with the writer. See also his sketch of Sumner in Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Longfellow, at whose house Sumner was the day after Brooks's death, wrote in his journal: Sumner came out. His assailant Brooks has died suddenly at Washington. I do not think Sumner had any personal feeling against him. He looked upon him as a mere tool of the slaveholders, or, at all events, of the South Carolini