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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 30 0 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 4 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)
deceived half the North, but they are undeceived. He does not stand as he did six months ago. Adams's Biography of Dana. p. 286. The Compromise was promptly approved in a public letter to him, signed by several hundreds of the most conspicuous citizens, Boston Courier, April 3, 1850; Boston Advertiser, April 3. The last—named newspaper, by a slip of the pen, called the signers Mr. Webster's retainers.—among them merchants like Eliot, Perkins, Fearing, Appleton, Haven, Amory, Sturgis, Thayer, and Hooper; lawyers like Choate, Lunt, B. R. Curtis, and G. T. Curtis; physicians like Jackson and Bigelow; scholars like Ticknor, Everett, Prescott, Sparks, Holmes, and Felton; divines like Moses Stuart and Leonard Woods. Its passage was signalized by the firing of one hundred guns on the Common. Webster's partisans, such was their intensity of feeling, very soon obtained the mastery of the Whig organization of the city, and compelled dissenters to submit to the nominations they dictat
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 39: the debate on Toucey's bill.—vindication of the antislavery enterprise.—first visit to the West.—defence of foreign-born citizens.—1854-1855. (search)
of the Massachusetts senators, F. W. Bird and H. L. Pierce, entered the Senate gallery while Wilson was speaking. They and the writer after the adjournment walked down the steps of the Capitol in company with Seward, who was enjoying a cigar after the long confinement; and the three congratulated him heartily for his decisive expressions against the Know Nothing order. Mr. Bird's description of the debate is printed in the Boston Telegraph, Feb. 28, 1855. Other descriptions were by William S. Thayer in the New York Evening Post, and E. L. Pierce in the Detroit Advertiser. An incident occurred a few days later, just at the close of the session, which shows that Sumner had the respect of Butler, although they were no longer on speaking terms. An amendment to the appropriation bill was under discussion, which authorized the purchase of copies of the papers of General Nathaniel Greene to be edited by his grandson, George W. Greene, who has already been mentioned in this biography
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)
is triumphant senatorial achievement. William S. Thayer in the New York Evening Post, May 22. the eye, New York Evening Post, May 22. W. S. Thayer, the correspondent of that journal, wrote: his colleague Keitt better than himself. W. S. Thayer in the New York Evening Post, May 23 and Juavery emigration to Kansas under Buford. W. S. Thayer in the New York Evening Post, May 23. He wajuvenile in face and negligent in dress. W. S. Thayer in the New York Evening Post, May 23, Aug. 53; J. S. Pike in New York Tribune, May 23; W. S. Thayer in Evening Post, May 23. Sumner, though anitted that Sumner tried to defend himself. W. S. Thayer in New York Evening Post, May 26. With his ating blows had no obstruction in the way. (W. S. Thayer in the Evening Post, May 28.) Iverson, collspot in time was the subject of criticism. (W. S. Thayer in the Evening Post, May 23.) Mr. Thayer stJ. S. Pike in the New York Tribune. May 26; W. S. Thayer in the New York Evening Post, May 26.) Wils[2 more...]
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, chapter 14 (search)
n as it entered seemed to penetrate the living mass, and yet all was order and tranquillity. At Turin he had an interview with Cavour, then the first statesman of Europe; and in that city he made the acquaintance, by Miss Weston's introduction, of two Italian ladies distinguished alike for intellectual gifts and patriotism,—Madame Arconati and Madame de Collegno, M. de Collegno was Piedmontese minister at Paris under Victor Emmanuel. His wife, surviving him a few years, died in 1868. W. S. Thayer, Consul General to Egypt, wrote from Alexandria, April 27, 1862, that the Marchesa Arconati, then in Egypt, desired him to say many things to Mr. Sumner. Mr. Thayer said of her: Among women I have not seen her equal for the combination of masculine understanding and feminine sweetness of disposition. She was Margaret Fuller's, Madame Mohl's, and Nassau W. Senior's friend and correspondent. She died about 1872. daughters of the Marchese Trotti Bentivoglio, of an old Milanese family. W