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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, chapter 1 (search)
y men in Coventry, have vanished. If they survive in a few names, they exercise no perceptible influence on the course of events. It is difficult, with the transformation which has come from devastating fires, from new or widened streets, and the conversion, in whole districts, of dwellings into warehouses, to find old landmarks; but it is harder still to find traces of that society which had cast out Wendell Phillips, well blooded as the best, and which now laid its heavy hand on Sumner, Palfrey, and Dana. George Ticknor's house, at the corner of Park and Beacon streets, facing the English elms on the Common, was the centre of the literary society of the time. He began to live in this house in 1829. A picture of the library is given in the Memorial History of Boston, vol. III. p. 662, and in Life of Ticknor, vol. i. p. 388. As to visitors at the house, see Life of Ticknor, vol. i. p. 391; vol. II. p. 482. He had retired from a professor's chair at Harvard, had ample lei
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)
science. Prescott's heart seems to shrink before his vast stores of materials illustrating Philip II. With his waning sight, he fears that he cannot accomplish the work, and he has thought of executing some fraction only,—as for instance, the siege of Malta, the expedition of Don Sebastian, or the Dutch war. If he takes a part only, I have exhorted him to present a view of the origin and establishment of Dutch independence. This would be an important theme with a proper unity. To J. G. Palfrey, February 22:— Let me recommend to you to procure a book, The past, the present, and the future, by H. C. Carey, a work of political economy and speculation. It makes for peace strongly, showing the true policy of peace. Though the writer is a free-trader, he is obliged to admit what he calls self-defensive tariffs; but argues finally for direct taxes. This is towards the close of the book. I think you will find much in it that will help some of your present trains of thought.
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 32: the annexation of Texas.—the Mexican War.—Winthrop and Sumner.—1845-1847. (search)
Adams's office, September 19, at which Adams, Palfrey, Phillips, and Sumner considered the subject ored seamen) sojourning in South Carolina. Palfrey's Letter to a Friend. After the first or sec vol. III. pp. 469, 474. Sumner wrote to Palfrey, December 10, from the United States Circuit the Courier. Dec. 23, 1847, Honor to John Gorham Palfrey. Jan. 6, 1848, Mr. Palfrey and Mr. WinMr. Palfrey and Mr. Winthrop. They were signed with a *, but they were known to be Sumner's at the time, with no purpose tive methods of opposing slavery and the war. Palfrey, as he contended, was in favor of determined d the civil service reform, He said: He [Mr. Palfrey as Secretary of the Commonwealth] declined he latter declined, as appears in a letter to Palfrey:— I am placed in a dilemma which is moohnson, and of Northern men like Giddings and Palfrey, and maintained that they effectually answereamount, like Mann; and while it was right for Palfrey to question him, it was equally his right, ev[26 more...]
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 33: the national election of 1848.—the Free Soil Party.— 1848-1849. (search)
ke without hesitation or regret. He wrote to Palfrey, April 23, 1848:— There is a movement a Early in the day Sumner read a letter from Dr. Palfrey (then in Congress) approving the objects oflavery finally prevailed? Sumner wrote to Palfrey, June 8:— The news has come by telegrapmade the principal speech; Sumner wrote to Palfrey of this meeting: It was the most remarkable p. The address was not his own composition; Palfrey was its reputed author. The Free Soilers of opening before him. After dinner we called on Palfrey. Sept. 17. Sumner passed the afternoon wiing offenders, —Adams, Sumner, Allen, Wilson, Palfrey, Keyes, and Bird. The Webster Whigs in 185pearance, and selfishness that of his action; Palfrey was a Judas; Sumner, a transcendental lawyer. Adams, Sumner, and Palfrey were styled The Mutual Admiration Society, or Charles Sumner & Co., wirned. He is sure to succeed another time. Palfrey failed to secure a majority, and his Whig opp[2 more...
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 34: the compromise of 1850.—Mr. Webster. (search)
mise that a revision of the tariff in their interest could be obtained only by concession to Southern demands. Horace Mann's Life, pp. 331, 332, 335, 337. Webster's Private Correspondence. vol. II. pp. 366, 370, 388, 390, 391; Webster's Works, vol. VI. p. 547. Von Holst, vol. III. p. 505. The paper drawn by Eliot and signed by Boston merchants in support of the Compromise before it was passed put forward the beneficent legislation which would follow it. Boston Courier, June 12, 1850. Palfrey's Five years progress of the Slave power treats of the alliance of that power with the Northern money-power through trade and political equivalents. This review of Webster's course on slavery in 1850-1852, which has been generally left in the background by his eulogists, has been no welcome task; but it is essential to an understanding of the political revolution which was at hand. Those who have come to manly life since 1852 cannot without it comprehend the profound indignation which
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 35: Massachusetts and the compromise.—Sumner chosen senator.—1850-1851. (search)
greater bitterness than ever against Sumner, Palfrey, and Dana. The intolerance now went further,to the Advertiser's and Courier's articles in Palfrey's Five Years Progress of the Slave Power. Int down; it is money, money, money, that keeps Palfrey from being elected. Knowing— these things, iass convention at Faneuil Hall, February 27. Palfrey presided; Dana reported resolutions; Drawn out not only their eminent speakers,—Sumner, Palfrey, Wilson, Dana, Burlingame,—but a number of yod against co-operation with the Democrats; Palfrey was, however, gratified by Sumner's election,ng quietly here, more saddened than exalted. Palfrey dined with us. I went to my Don Quixote at cosenator's frank was upon documents to promote Palfrey's re-election to Congress. With his large coued friend written on it. He sought Sumner at Palfrey's, near by, and found him there. The two walyman, an editor and proprietor, assisted by Mr. Palfrey. I think it will be the most powerful orga[13 more...
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 36: first session in Congress.—welcome to Kossuth.—public lands in the West.—the Fugitive Slave Law.—1851-1852. (search)
say that there was nothing in their speeches to suggest that they followed as exemplars John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, Edward Livingston and John Quincy Adams. R. H. Dana, Jr.'s, diary in manuscript gives an account of a conversation with Palfrey and Sumner in September, 1852, in which the inexactness of Southern members in their extracts from Latin authors was one of the topics. Public men in Washington were then under less restraint than now in their habits. They could not forego tobath, which was founded early in 1851, had a very uncertain and changeable management. At times Alley, Bird, Dr. Howe, and Joseph Lyman were pecuniarily interested in it, and for some months Samuel E. Sewall was the proprietor. Dr. Howe, Bird, Dr. Palfrey, Robert Carter, 1819-1879. Journalist and scholar, living in Cambridge, but afterwards removing to New York city. and Richard Hildreth the historian were at times contributors or editors; but after a temporary management by one or more of t
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 37: the national election of 1852.—the Massachusetts constitutional convention.—final defeat of the coalition.— 1852-1853. (search)
to support him. No town was disposed to adopt Palfrey, probably because of his aversion to Democratfairs was changed. Two eminent Free Soilers, Palfrey and Adams, A letter to the New York Eveninigned Essex, reviewed the political record of Palfrey and Adams. and undertook to explain the persigned Essex, reviewed the political record of Palfrey and Adams. and undertook to explain the persvictions of the people. The publication of Palfrey's letter was immediately followed by the lettstriking out Wilson's criticisms on Adams and Palfrey); by a full account in the New York Evening Phigs under existing party conditions. It put Palfrey and Adams for a time out of relations with thses: first in order of time, the defection of Palfrey and Adams, which stimulated the Whigs and neu, and especially of all antislavery. I honor Palfrey much for his life, and for what at other tinets and also against his two familiar friends, Palfrey and Adams. There was no longer any intimatio[3 more...]
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)
by the failure of the proposed fusion joined it. The Springfield Republican (November 10) attributed the growth of the order to the failure of the effort to unite the opponents of the extension of slavery. Life and Times of Samuel Bowles, vol. i. pp. 125-127. and earnest and active as they were, exercised a predominant influence in its councils. Their most trusted leaders—Sumner, Adams, Later, in January, 1855, Adams assailed the order in a speech in New York. Allen, S. C. Phillips, Palfrey, and Andrew—had no sympathy with its aims and methods, and kept aloof from it. Others, however, had less sternness of principle or less scruple as to propriety. Burlingame entered the order as early as March, 1854, and sought the nomination for Congress from Boston,—the very scat of Whig power. Wilson, while openly keeping up his connection with the Republicans, whose nomination for governor he accepted, joined the order in the late summer or early autumn, and assumed thereby, as those wh<
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)
ack only by courage on the other, and when the Northern masses needed as an inspiration the spectacle of a manly and fearless spirit on the part of their leaders in Washington. There was the same difference of opinion among English people. Dr. Palfrey was in England at the time, and was present when Lord Elgin expressed his opinion that Sumner had better not have said some things which he did say; but the Duchess of Argyll defended him fully. Meantime Sumner, who was constitutionally def my being nailed to my vice-sceptre, to have hurried across that broad sea, in the hope of being allowed to join in waiting on you. Your bedside appears to me just now both the most interesting and the most important spot in the universe. Dr. Palfrey wrote from London, June 11:— I need not tell you that I have been greatly disturbed by the outrage, of which intelligence has just come to England. It strikes people here with amazement. . . . Lord Carlisle writes to me of his joy, afte
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