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Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career. 2 0 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 2 Browse Search
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Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 10: (search)
e about to open a new market to the traffickers in flesh that haunt the shambles of the South. In the course of his remarks he made this forcible appeal on behalf of the Missouri Compromise:-- The Missouri compact, in its unperformed obligations to freedom, stands at this day as impregnable as the Louisiana purchase. I appeal to senators about me not to disturb it. I appeal to the senators from Virginia to keep inviolate the compact made in their behalf by James Barbour and Charles Fenton Mercer. I appeal to the senators from South Carolina to guard the work of John Gaillard and William Lowndes. I appeal to the senators from Maryland to uphold the compromise which elicited the constant support of Samuel Smith, and was first triumphantly pressed by the unsurpassed eloquence of Pinkney. I appeal to the senators from Delaware to maintain the landmark of freedom in the Territory of Louisiana, early espoused by Louis McLane. I appeal to the senators from Kentucky not to repud
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 38: repeal of the Missouri Compromise.—reply to Butler and Mason.—the Republican Party.—address on Granville Sharp.—friendly correspondence.—1853-1854. (search)
ersed,β€”the antislavery policy of the Fathers, the power and duty of Congress to prohibit slavery in the territories, and an exposure of the sophistries which were urged in behalf of the institution, or of concession to its demands. Appealing for the maintenance of good faith, pledged in the Missouri Compact, he said:β€” I appeal to senators about me not to disturb it. I appeal to the senators from Virginia to keep inviolate the compact made in their behalf by James Barbour and Charles Fenton Mercer. I appeal to the senators from South Carolina to guard the work of John Gaillard and William Lowndes. I appeal to the senators from Maryland to uphold the Compromise which elicited the constant support of Samuel Smith, and was first triumphantly pressed by the unsurpassed eloquence of Pinkney. I appeal to the senators from Delaware to maintain the landmark of freedom in the Territory of Louisiana early proposed by Louis McLane. I appeal to the senators from Kentucky not to repud
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Hon. James Mercer Garnett. (search)
ess in 1779-80. He was appointed a judge of the General Court in 1780, and a judge of the Court of Appeals of five judges in 1789, in which year he was also appointed one of the revisors of the laws of Virginia. He was the father of General Charles Fenton Mercer, of Aldie, Loudoun county, who was a member of the Virginia Legislature, 1810-17, except while in military service during the war of 1812, of the United States Congress, 1817-39, of the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829-30 and was a member of the Convention of 1829– 30, called to amend the State Constitution. He opposed many of the changes in the Constitution made by that Convention, and was thus frequently found on the opposite side to his brother-in-law, Hon. Charles Fenton Mercer, who acted as chairman of the Committee on Resolutions, Mr. Madison, the appointed chairman, from his age and infirmities being unable to take a very active part in the work of the Convention. Mr. Garnett, a gentleman of the old school
The Daily Dispatch: January 23, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
n β€” the conscript fathers of the Republic-- continued, for thirty or forty years after them, to conduct the affairs of the Union with a patrictism, ability, and suceess worthy of their noble sires. In the different representative assemblies of which Mr. Tyler was successively a member; he was brought into contact with the highest intellects of the age. In the Legislature of Virginia, he was a member of the House of Delegates with Littleton Waller Tazewell, Berjamin Watkins Leigh, Chas. Fenton Mercer, Robert Stanard, Philip Doddridge, Gen. Blackburn, and many others of the most gifted spirits of this ancient Commonwealth. In the House of Representatives of the United States, he was contemporary with Henry Clay, William Lowndes, John endolph, Henry St. George Tucker, John Forsyth, Louis McLace, and a host of other distinguished men who then illustrated the national forum. Being generally the youngest member of the body to which he belonged, and emulous of distinction, he was stim