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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 10: (search)
t, done up whatever disagreeable and dirty work Van Buren would have been unwilling to do, and then he will come in, with renewed strength, upon the sober third thought of the people, and sail upon a sea of glory to the end of his course. Huzza for Demus! The Democrats came in with Mr. Polk. Webster's letter about the Creole, concerning which, See Curtis's Life of Webster, Vol. II. pp. 119-122. of course, you may like to hear a word, excites some talk here, but not a great deal. Sumner is the only person I have met with who is vehement against it. But it is, of course, against the moral sense of our community, and though the legal sense will sustain it, that is not enough. Alla van leyes, Adonde quieren reyes, says the old Spanish proverb; and as the people is King here in New England more than on any other spot of earth since the days of the saurians and ichthyosauria,—who unquestionably made a pure democracy,—the people in the long run will settle the law of this matter
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 14: (search)
es, the North and the South, the antislavery fast becoming—what wise men have long foreseen-mere abolitionism, and now excited to madness by the brutal assault on Sumner, by the contest in Kansas, and by the impending Presidential canvass. I have not witnessed so bad a state of things for forty years, not since the last war wi away under the blighting curse of slavery, and struggle like drowning men to recover some foothold on solid ground. The North, justly outraged by the assault on Sumner, and by much that has happened in Kansas, loses—for a time—both patience and wisdom, so that I hear fighting the South constantly talked of as a thing not to be dy between them and the States at its mouth. I look, therefore, with confidence to the West, to save the Atlantic States from the madness of civil war. . . . . Sumner's wounds were severe, and became worse for two days by unskilful treatment. I have seen a letter from his brother, which says that, as soon as the treatment was <
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 30 (search)
trutt, Hon J. W., II. 482. Stuart, Abbe, II. 80, 82. Stuart de Rothesay, Lord, II. 64. Stuart, Lady, Dudley, I. 446 and note. See Bonaparte, Christine. Stuart, Lord, Dudley, I. 446 and note. Sturgis, II. P., II. 445 note. Sturgis, Russell, II. 390. Subaltern, by Gleig, I. 380. Sulivan, Miss, II. 482. Sullivan, Richard, I. 12. Sullivan, William, I. 9, 11, 12, 20, 40, 381. Sulmoua, Prince (since Borghese), II. 61, 66, 84. Sulmona, Princess, II. 61, 66. Sumner, Charles, II. 199, 296, 297. Survilliers, Countess, II. 87. Sussex, Duke of, II. 152. Switzerland, visits, I. 152-160, II. 34-37. T Tagus River, I. 243. Tait, Bishop of London, II. 371, 384. Talfourd, Sir T. N., II. 181. Talleyrand, Prince, L 13, 123, 254, 258-263, II. 35, 113, 114. Talma, I. 126, 127. Tarentum, Archbishop of, I. 174. Tascher de la Pagerie, II. 131. Tasso Mss., forgery of, by Alberti, II. 52, 53, 79 and note. Tastu, Mad. Amable, II. 124, 128,