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Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 12: (search)
ons there were about me, offering me friendly assistance; but I did not recognize any of them. Others there were at a distance, looking on and offering no assistance, of whom I recognized only Mr. Douglas of Illinois, Mr. Toombs of Georgia, and I thought also my assailant standing between them. I was helped from the floor, and conducted into the lobby of the Senate, where I was placed upon a sofa. Of those who helped me here I have no recollection. As I entered the lobby, I recognized Mr. Slidell of Louisiana, who retreated; but I recognized no one else until I felt a friendly grasp of the hand, which seemed to come from Mr. Campbell of Ohio. I have a vague impression that Mr. Bright, president of the Senate, spoke to me while I was on the floor of the lobby. I make this statement in answer to the interrogatory of the committee, and offer it as presenting completely all my recollections of the assault and of the attending circumstances, whether immediately before or immediately
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 15: (search)
of January, 1862, Mr. Sumner made in the Senate, then thronged with eager listeners, his exhaustive and noble speech on the Trent affair, which came near involving, as it afterwards appeared, this country in war with England. Messrs. Mason and Slidell, it will be remembered, who had been commissioned as rebel agents, the one to England and the other to France, were arrested on board the British mail-steamer Trent, by Capt. Wilkes of the frigate San Jacinto, and brought as prisoners to this coIt is already ranked in Washington as a State paper upon the question of seizure and search, worthy to be placed side by side with the despatches of Madison and Jefferson; and this is now the decision of the country. Messrs. J. M. Mason and John Slidell were relased from Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, Jan. 2, 1862, and sailed for England. The former was the author of the Fugitive-Slave Bill, and died April 29, 1871: the latter died in London, July 29 of the same year. On the 11th of Februar
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 16: (search)
icks. letter from Dr. R. H. Neale. Mr. Sumner's activity. his address at Cooper Institute on our Foreign Relations. extracts from the same. a poetical Tribute. death and character of George Sumner. senator Sumner's article on Franklin and Slidell in the Atlantic Monthly. his taste for literary Curiosities. his activity and foresight in Congress. his speech on the Constitutional Amendment. on the Freedmen's-bureau Bill. his friendly Relations with Mr. Lincoln. the success of the U on his correspondence, or producing something for the public press. An elegant and learned article from his ready pen appeared in The Atlantic Monthly for November of this year, contrasting the diplomatic mission of Dr. Franklin with that of John Slidell at Paris, and ingeniously tracing the celebrated Latin epigram, Eripuit Coelo fulmen, sceptrumque tyrannis, which was inscribed. on the portrait of the great philosopher, to its origin. In this charming essay the writer's intimate acquaintan