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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 45: an antislavery policy.—the Trent case.—Theories of reconstruction.—confiscation.—the session of 1861-1862. (search)
public opinion, as expressed by the press and even by publicists, very generally applauded it. Among those who in Massachusetts gave it sanction were Edward Everett, Theophilus Parsons, Caleb Cushing, C. G. Loring, George Sumner, Joel Parker, B. F. Thomas, G. T. Bigelow, R. H. Dana, Jr., Adams's Biography of Dana, vol. II. p. 259. and the editors of that conservative journal, the Boston Advertiser. It was, indeed, a perilous moment, perhaps the most perilous, in our Civil War. Public ophe close connection of one so clear-headed and well balanced with our foreign affairs. The Boston Advertiser, which had justified the capture and opposed a surrender, printed only a brief summary of the speech, while printing entire that of B. F. Thomas in the House which sustained Captain Wilkes. The New York Tribune printed Sumner's speech in full. The senator received testimonies of approval from a long list of correspondents,—among whom were John Bigelow, N. P. Tallmadge, Francis B.