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C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 6 2 Browse Search
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C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Eighth: the war of the Rebellion. (search)
d in reply, I received the following interesting information from Mr. Robert J. Stevens, son-in-law of Col. Baker: Washington, D. C., March 31st, 1874. my Dear Sir,—I hasten to reply to your note of this morning, enclosing letter of Mr. C. Edwards Lester, inquiring about Baker monument. The plans for such monument, very magnificent, and studiously elaborated—the work of Horatio Stone—were sent by Rev. H. W. Bellows to Thos. Starr King at San Francisco (1862), and doubtless would have beehe people of your own empire, rather than in trying to hurt a great, a kindred, and a friendly nation. After attempting so long to be a statesman, do not finish by being only a ministerial bully. I am, my lord, your obedient servant, C. Edwards Lester. No jurist will pretend to say that in all this she did not violate the spirit, if not the letter, of her own laws of neutrality, and the laws of nations. No intelligent man will deny that by these acts she prolonged and inflamed that ac<
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Xviii. (search)
hould have risen one of the most superb monuments which the genius of Art has erected to human greatness. On the 27th of March (1874), I wrote to Hon. A. A. Sargent, Senator from California, to learn the present condition of Col. Baker's grave; and in reply, I received the following interesting information from Mr. Robert J. Stevens, son-in-law of Col. Baker: Washington, D. C., March 31st, 1874. my Dear Sir,—I hasten to reply to your note of this morning, enclosing letter of Mr. C. Edwards Lester, inquiring about Baker monument. The plans for such monument, very magnificent, and studiously elaborated—the work of Horatio Stone—were sent by Rev. H. W. Bellows to Thos. Starr King at San Francisco (1862), and doubtless would have been in marble ere this, had it not been for his untimely death. They are now deposited with the Society of California Pioneers, in their new building, subject to my order. The grave of Baker (at Lone Mountain) is principally marked by the towering <
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Xlii. (search)
hese can now enter your heart as an English statesman? We cannot believe it. Can you desire to put one more great trouble on the heart of your beloved, widowed queen? We will not believe it. My lord, you should be engaged in doing some good to the people of your own empire, rather than in trying to hurt a great, a kindred, and a friendly nation. After attempting so long to be a statesman, do not finish by being only a ministerial bully. I am, my lord, your obedient servant, C. Edwards Lester. No jurist will pretend to say that in all this she did not violate the spirit, if not the letter, of her own laws of neutrality, and the laws of nations. No intelligent man will deny that by these acts she prolonged and inflamed that accursed war. No man in his senses supposes for a moment that England would have ventured on such a course of hostility and inhumanity at any other period of our history since the Peace of 1815. No other thoughts can suggest themselves to impartial
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 48: Seward.—emancipation.—peace with France.—letters of marque and reprisal.—foreign mediation.—action on certain military appointments.—personal relations with foreigners at Washington.—letters to Bright, Cobden, and the Duchess of Argyll.—English opinion on the Civil War.—Earl Russell and Gladstone.—foreign relations.—1862-1863. (search)
y unattainable, saying at the last-named date, Ever since the development of an earnest purpose in the South, my opinion has remained absolutely the same. Some years after the contest had ended, and when no man's word in our behalf was needed, Mr. Gladstone offered error of insight into the nature and working of the American Union as his excuse, with that facility of speech in reconciling adverse positions and explaining changed opinions for which he has since been remarkable. To C. Edwards Lester, Oct. 8, 1867. New York Evening Post, Dec. 28, 1868. After all, no different course was to be expected from this statesman. His parliamentary career began with apologies for African slavery, May 17 and June 2, 1833. Address to electors of Newark, Oct. 9, 1832. Smith's Life of W. E. Gladstone, chap. III. and his family interest in a West India plantation made him easily the admirer of Jefferson Davis. Sumner delivered, September 10, an address in New York on Our Foreign Relati