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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)
reat news from France,—the greatest event perhaps ever accomplished in a similar space of tine. The American sympathy is strongly in favor of this prodigious movement, but I need not tell you that there are many here who are much disturbed by it. The rich and the commercial classes feel that property is rendered insecure, and with many of these the pocket is the chief sensorium. Mr. Webster, I am told, condemns this revolution, saying it is a movement of communists and socialists. . . . Lamartine's position is one of incalculable influence, not only over the destinies of France, but the progress of civilization. I trust he may feel, as I believe he does, how important it is that the triumphs of freedom should be joined with the triumphs of peace. His letter to the Foreign Minister, which I read after midnight, alone quite lifted me from my seat. . . . The National Assembly has an important task, which will require more calmness than is generally supposed to belong to the French c
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 41: search for health.—journey to Europe.—continued disability.—1857-1858. (search)
as greatly attracted by the liberal thought of Comte de Montalembert, both sympathetic with his own views on slavery. He had interesting interviews with Guizot, Lamartine, Drouyn de Lhuys, and the historian Mignet. He wrote from Paris to Dr. Howe, April 23:— It is now a month since I wrote you from the British Channel. In ese could not reach the workshops; but the daily press was under a close censorship. His own recent work was just passing to the third edition. He did not like Lamartine; in his opinion he had done much harm by precipitating the republic, which was the cause of the existing state of things. In his opinion Theirs is not a great we archives, which are kept in a separate building, and also the rooms. The machinery of administration in France seems to be perfect. In the evening went to M. de Lamartine. He was in a small room, with some half-dozen ladies and as many gentlemen, and while I was there several came and went. He received me kindly, and afterwar
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, chapter 14 (search)
Romans for the cure of rheumatism and other diseases. The establishment has been much changed since 1858, being enlarged after the cession of Savoy to France. The town is hemmed in by hills; and within two miles is Lake Bourget, celebrated by Lamartine, on the shore of which, in the monastery of Haute Combe, are the tombs of the princes of the House of Savoy. In this retreat, Sumner lodged at the Hotel Royal, now Hotel d'aix, and had room 47. In May, 1879, the writer met at Aix M. Paul Go the soberer heat of reverence. Sumner left Paris for Montpellier Nov. 25, 1858; He received from Mr. Fish and family an invitation to dine on Thanksgiving Day. and while stopping for a day at Avignon He had stopped at Macon to visit Lamartine's chateaux. he was struck with a sharp pain in the left leg, which prostrated him. He attempted a walk; and people in the streets stopped to look at the strange figure of one who seemed so old in gait and yet whose face was that of youth. This
The Daily Dispatch: April 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 21 (search)
Col. J. M. Sanborn, late Commissioner of the State of Michigan, has offered to take the contract to supply Fort Sumter with men and provisions for the sum of $500,000. Charles L. Blevins, a medical student from Selma, Alabama, aged nineteen years, blew his brains out with a pistol, at New Orleans last week. Chas. Pape, the actor, was married in Cincinnati Friday, to Miss Virginia Howard, of the same profession. M. Lamartine having disposed of his property in Macon, is about to return to Parie and offer his works for sale at his own house. The anniversary of the birthday of Henry Clay is to be celebrated in New York, on the 12th inst. Ex-President Millard Fillmore has accepted an invitation to presides at the Unitarian Festival in Boston, in May next. The steam mill of John Brown, near Camden, S, C., was burnt on the 28th ult. Loss $10,000. Maj. T. H. Holmes, of 7th Infantry U. S. A., who resigned, is a native of Virginia.
The Daily Dispatch: January 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], Double murder. (search)
e, in a published letter, denies that he approves of the course of Gov. Hicks, of Md., in refusing to call the Legislature together. The weather in England, December 22d, was quite cold and wintry, and the country was covered with snow — in some places to a considerable depth. Joseph McD. Carson, for many years a member of the North Carolina Legislature, died on the 19th ult. Dr. D. E. Hadaway was accidentally shot and killed at Memphis, Tenn., on the 27th ult., by Wm. Heiston, his brother-in-law. Wm. M. Radford, for many years President of the Farmers' Bank, at Lynchburg, Va., died on the 2d inst. Mrs. E. M. Simpson was taken ill at a ball at Fairfax Court-House, New Year's night, and died in a few hours. M. de Lamartine's paternal estate at Milly, France, has at length been sold. Charley Gordon, the burglar who escaped in New Orleans, has been recaptured. R. B. Sherrard (Union,) has been elected to the Virginia Legislature from Hampshire co.
The Daily Dispatch: November 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], Extracts from a Paris letters. (search)
Extracts from a Paris letters. --From the Paris correspondence of the Baltimore American we gather the following items: A report has recently been in circulation that M. de Lamartine was lying dangerously ill at Macon. The illustrious poet himself contradicts this statement in a note to one of the daily journals, declares that his health is excellent, and that he is incessantly occupied in preparing for the press the complete edition of his works published by himself. Apropos of M deLamartine, I can relate an anecdote of the poet which illustrates his carelessness in pecuniary matters, and has not appeared in print in America. One day, early last summer, the author of the "Meditations" entered a well known restaurant on the boulevard and ordered an ice. The proprietor of the establishment waited in person upon his distinguished customer, and, after some hesitation, said: "Monsieur de Lamartine, I am one of your innumerable admirers, and would be delighted to subscr
The Daily Dispatch: December 16, 1865., [Electronic resource], Discovery of remains — a Murder three years ago. (search)
aterfalls, and the like, belonged to Europe, we might be a little envious, but as our own we respect them. We cut down the trees, it is true, not so much because they are aristocrats as because they are in our way, just as we would cut down Napoleon if he were in the same position. We want the land they grow on for the corn, potatoes, cotton, etc., which, Lamartine says, belong to Europe. We want the trees for fencing, houses and other purposes more useful than ornamental. We assure M. de Lamartine that we do not envy the trees, and if Europe comes here to take our staples we will leave enough of them standing to hang thieves and robbers on. The gallant old creature, among other charges against us, says that our "circles of men are tempered neither by good feeling nor politeness toward women." Why, we had always prided ourselves on deference and courtesy to the female sex. We may not be as moral as the French in our relations to women, but we are, at least, obliging and good