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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 28: the city Oration,—the true grandeur of nations.—an argument against war.—July 4, 1845.—Age 34. (search)
spondents from whose letters extracts are given— were William H. Furness, O. W. Peabody, and Hubbard Winslow, among clergymen; Professor Thomas C. Upham, of Bowdoin College, a writer upon morals; J. Miller McKim, the Philadelphia Abolitionist; Edward Kent, of Maine, long conspicuous in public life; Henry C. Carey, the political economist; Brantz Mayer, of Baltimore, known in literature; John Jay, of New York, already earnest in the anti-slavery cause, and since distinguished in a diplomatic carer! You have scattered right and left the seeds of a sound and ennobling morality, which may spring up in a bountiful harvest, I trust,—in the millennium; but I doubt. I shall be in town in a few days, when I shall hope to see you. Chancellor Kent wrote, Aug. 21:— Permit me to return you my thanks for your oration on The true grandeur of nations. It took me quite by surprise, for I had not anticipated that you thought and felt so intensely on the very grave and momentous subjec<