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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 18 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 14 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises 12 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 12 0 Browse Search
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1 8 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 4 0 Browse Search
Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865 4 0 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: May 13, 1862., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 9: Journalist at large.—1868-1876. (search)
ingly confirmed by the publication Century Magazine, June, 1888, p. 291. of Greeley's extraordinary letter to President Lincoln after the battle of Bull Run. When, after Mr. Sumner's death in 1874, there was a deadlock in the Massachusetts Legislature over the election of his successor, Mr. Garrison was approached by one of the Republican leaders to know if he would accept the position, and replied: Your friendly and complimentary letter of inquiry causes Ms. Mar. 28, 1874, to Edward Atkinson. me very great surprise, because, although we have lived to see many strange occurrences in our day, I deem it scarcely more supposable that, under any fortuitous combination of circumstances or rallying of forces, I should be chosen successor of Charles Sumner in the U. S. Senate by the Legislature of Massachusetts, than that Birnam wood will come to Dunsinane. What, therefore, is utterly out of the question cannot be with me a matter of grave consideration. Besides, if, by any possi