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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 332 0 Browse Search
Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Debates of Lincoln and Douglas: Carefully Prepared by the Reporters of Each Party at the times of their Delivery. 110 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 68 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 32 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 28 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 24 0 Browse Search
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders. 22 0 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 20 0 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3 20 0 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 20 0 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 35: Massachusetts and the compromise.—Sumner chosen senator.—1850-1851. (search)
and 1864 he opposed the Republicans, and then withdrew from political controversy. His old Free Soil adversaries had a kindly feeling towards him notwithstanding the asperities of their contests with him. Sumner, after the early part of 1848, abstained from all reflections upon his course, publicly or privately. One or two slight allusions in private correspondence do not seem to require a qualification of the general statement. Wilson, in 1855, formally invited him to join in the anti-Nebraska movement, which was the beginning of the Republican party; but made as he was, and seeing things as he saw them, he could not accept the overture. Wilson's Rise and Fall of the Slave Power, vol. II. p. 433. Whittier, while as positive as other antislavery men against Winthrop's political course at this period, 1846– 1851, regarded him with great respect, and deeply regretted that he did not take his place with the antislavery party. There was no time when Wilson and Sumner would not ha
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)
t territory now comprising the great States of Kansas and Nebraska, and rival. ling in extent Spain, France, and Italy comb January 4, and submitted a bill for organizing the Territory of Nebraska. The report, after discussing the opposite views onew bill, which created the two territories of Kansas and Nebraska, and declared the prohibition inoperative, for the reasonsent no reply to the invitation to address the first anti-Nebraska meeting held in Broadway Tabernacle, January 30. Mr. verett made a visit to Boston for a week. When the House Nebraska bill passed the Senate in May, he was again in Boston, an Thus, sir, standing at the very grave of freedom in Nebraska and Kansas, I lift myself to the vision of that happy resis remarks chiefly to a recent address issued by the anti-Nebraska members of Congress; but he took occasion to denounce sucans. To Theodore Parker, March:— Your sermon on Nebraska is powerful and grand; but that on old Age is touching,—v
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)
gracefully sought the privilege of conducting Banks to the chair. The passage of the Kansas-Nebraska bill in 1854 opened the new territories to settlement; and the struggle in Congress between frethe first to instigate the repeal of the Missouri Compromise prohibition, making no contest for Nebraska, where an effort would have been hopeless, at once pushed into Kansas and took possession of th would not be allowed in it. The free States were equally awake to the issue. While the Kansas-Nebraska bill was pending, the plan of assisted emigration to the territory had taken form in Massachuseansas has begun, and will drag along for weeks and months,—perhaps throughout the session. The Nebraska bill was pressed with whip and spur, in order to carry forward the plot; but I do not see any sagainst admitting Kansas under the Topeka Constitution. There were few absentees, and the anti-Nebraska members kept together better than in any vote during the session. Those naturally infirm of pu