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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)
ton said, in 1886, that Sumner looked then Apollo-like, with the most distinguished presence of any one of his age in Massachusetts. He was described in 1850 as wearing a dark-blue coat, a white vest, crossed by a broad, black watch-guard. In Warrington's Pen Portraits, p. 200, it is said that he was always picturesquely dressed. He spoke with self-possession and a consciousness of power, and his delivery and voice, unfamiliar to many present, interested all. The oration was in his mind, and hr things was above the spirit about him, and through life was steadfast in his sympathy for the cause of liberty and republicanism in Europe. W. S. Robinson noted Sumner's solicitude for the spread and permanency of republicanism in Europe. Warrington's Pen portraits, p. 522. Sumner testified his sympathy for the same cause in a speech before a club in Boston during the last autumn of his life. To George Sumner, April 4:— We have all been filled with mingled anxiety, astonishment,
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)
stand as the candidate. He was the natural leader of the bolt, and he had done the most to bring it about. His disclaimer of a desire for public office, though entirely sincere, was hardly in place; for he was by nature, and already in action, more a politician than he thought. W. S. Robinson took exception, in the Courier, in October, 1846, to Sumner's expression, I am no politician, in his open letter to Winthrop, and insisted that it was the duty of men like him to be politicians. Warrington's Pen Portraits, p. 30. He was at that time too careful in guarding his position or the cause itself from the charge of his own personal self-seeking; but he soon grew wiser in such matters. Dr. Howe was then substituted as the candidate, and a meeting was held in Tremont Temple, November 5, to support the nomination. Andrew was made chairman, and Sumner and Adams spoke. Sumner began with a tribute to Dr. Howe's character, and then, disclaiming any sentiment except of kindness towards
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)
No great movement ever showed at the beginning more character and power. It began true and strong. All the speakers united in renouncing old party ties. None did this better than C. F. Adams. Sumner's speech was a brief one. There was the manly form of Charles Sumner in the splendor and vigor and magnetic power of his youthful eloquence,—G. F. Hoar at Reunion of Free Soilers of 1848, held Aug. 9, 1877. W. S. Robinson described the scene in a letter to the Springfield republican. Warrington's Pen Portraits, pp. 184, 185 He dwelt upon the growth and potent influence of the slave-power, which he defined as that combination of persons, or perhaps of politicians, whose animating principle is the perpetuation and extension of slavery, with the advancement of slaveholders; and he contended that former issues, altogether material and economical, which had hitherto been party watchwords, had disappeared. He concluded with an inspiring appeal to all, particularly the young, to join
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)
h numbers diminishing, they could count only on the most steadfast in conviction. Saddest of all was Wilson, who enjoyed political position for its excitement, and who had no private means of support, but who was far from being a selfseeker, loving his party as few have loved it, and ready to make sacrifices for it,—his chagrin now sharpened by the consciousness that Palfrey's and Adams's demonstrations had been in part inspired by undeserved misconceptions of his purposes and methods. Warrington's (W. S. Robinson) Pen Portraits, p. 204. Wilson now sought the means of support by delivering lectures before lyceums, and by returning to the manufacture of boots at Natick, in which he had been unsuccessful before he became an editor. He employed forty workmen in his factory; but he was no more fortunate in this second venture than in his first. See his letter in the Boston Atlas, Oct. 17, 1854 The Free Soilers, however, soon gathered courage, and became consolidated by the arroga