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Roxbury, Mass. (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
character. Professor Huntington's letter, October 10, to Sumner. Sumner arrived from New York at Longfellow's, in Cambridge, Sunday morning, November 2. He arrived by the Fall River line at Harrison Square in Dorchester, and drove through Roxbury and Brookline to Cambridge. On Monday he was driven to the house of Amos A. Lawrence in Brookline. The morning papers expressed the tenderness of public feeling towards him. Boston Atlas, November 3. Here he was met in the early afternoon by a number of prominent citizens, who had driven in eighteen carriages from the State House. The company, taking Sumner in an open barouche with Dr. Perry and Professor Huntington, proceeded to Roxbury, and thence to the Boston line, where they were met by a cavalcade of citizens numbering seven hundred, and were awaited by a vast concourse of people. At Northampton Street, just north of the southern boundary of the city, Sumner's carriage was driven alongside of one containing A. H. Rice the
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the one is the long wail of slavery; in the other, the hymn of freedom. And it we glance at special achievement, it will be difficult to find anything in the history of South Carolina which presents so much of heroic spirit in an heroic cause as shines in that repulse of the Missouri invaders by the beleaguered town of Lawrence,. where even the women gave their effective efforts to freedom. The matrons of Rome who poured their jewels into the treasury for the public defence; the wives of Prussia who with delicate fingers clothed their defenders against French invasion; the mothers of our own Revolution who sent forth their sons covered over with prayers and blessings to combat for human rights,—did nothing of self-sacrifice truer than did these women on this occasion. Were the whole history of South Carlina blotted out of existence, from its very beginning down to the day of the last election of the senator to his present seat on this floor, civilization night lose—I do not say ho
Quiquechan River (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
expression in a public reception. This became an imposing demonstration, unorganized, spontaneous, and heartfelt. A committee, of whom Professor Huntington of Harvard College, since Bishop of Central New York, took the lead, arranged that it should be without military display, but civil, dignified, and elevated in character. Professor Huntington's letter, October 10, to Sumner. Sumner arrived from New York at Longfellow's, in Cambridge, Sunday morning, November 2. He arrived by the Fall River line at Harrison Square in Dorchester, and drove through Roxbury and Brookline to Cambridge. On Monday he was driven to the house of Amos A. Lawrence in Brookline. The morning papers expressed the tenderness of public feeling towards him. Boston Atlas, November 3. Here he was met in the early afternoon by a number of prominent citizens, who had driven in eighteen carriages from the State House. The company, taking Sumner in an open barouche with Dr. Perry and Professor Huntington, pro
Kansas (Kansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
would have been hopeless, at once pushed into Kansas and took possession of the best tracts, most oings look well,—never so well. I am sure that Kansas will be a free State. I am sure that we are gtts,—declaring that in assisting emigration to Kansas it had done only what was lawful and right, bog pervaded the free States. Fresh violence in Kansas had carried to an intense heat the indignatione that violence and bloodshed were imminent in Kansas. Before the day closed, intelligence came thafanatical; and resistance to the usurpation of Kansas he denounces as an uncalculating fanaticism. t requiring submission to the usurped power of Kansas; and this was accompanied by a manner, all his than it has already gained by the example of Kansas in that valiant struggle against oppression, already deeply moved by pro-slavery violence in Kansas. Side by side with the latest tidings from thrsal. The slavery question and the contest in Kansas had become the vital issue in the public mind.[63 more...]<
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cal sectionalism of which the senator from South Carolina is one of the maddest zealots. Replyinhe announces, from a Stately, sir,Zzz from South Carolina,—he turns with lordly disgust from this nefficult to find anything in the history of South Carolina which presents so much of heroic spirit inith all the prejudices of the senator from South Carolina, but without his generous impulses, who, fsive and rash. O'Neall's Bench and Bar of South Carolina, vol. II. p. 474. and he even cultivated ult was agreed upon at a conference of the South Carolina delegation. (New York Times, May 24; New Y the passage of Sumner's speech concerning South Carolina. Brooks's real grievance, as he stated ithen Sumner had said far more about him and South Carolina than in the recent speech. He, as well asrepresented that Southern opinion, even in South Carolina, did not really approve Brooks's act, and ll bears his name, and later were taken to South Carolina, where there was a public funeral, Februar[36 more...]
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w York and Newport, John Bigelow from New York, Parke Godwin from Roslyn, Mr. Pell from the highlands of the Hudson, Mr. Adams from Quincy, Amos A. Lawrence from Brookline, F. W. Bird from Walpole, R. B. Forbes from Milton, Ellis Gray Loring from Beverly, John E. Lodge from Nahant, and Joseph Lyman from Jamaica Plain. Everywhere ik at Longfellow's, in Cambridge, Sunday morning, November 2. He arrived by the Fall River line at Harrison Square in Dorchester, and drove through Roxbury and Brookline to Cambridge. On Monday he was driven to the house of Amos A. Lawrence in Brookline. The morning papers expressed the tenderness of public feeling towards himBrookline. The morning papers expressed the tenderness of public feeling towards him. Boston Atlas, November 3. Here he was met in the early afternoon by a number of prominent citizens, who had driven in eighteen carriages from the State House. The company, taking Sumner in an open barouche with Dr. Perry and Professor Huntington, proceeded to Roxbury, and thence to the Boston line, where they were met by a cava
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votes, was again placed on the committee on pensions, of which the other members were Jones of Iowa (chairman), Clay of Alabama, Seward of New York, and Thompson of New Jersey. On Cass's motion he was appointed one of the two members of the commitson, the chieftain of the border ruffian Democracy. Similar scenes occurred from time to time in the debate. Clay of Alabama imputed to Hale the practice of seeking the society of Southern senators and fawning upon them, May 2. The threat ofspring of 1856 by recruits from the remote South, for which they had appealed,— notably by those from South Carolina and Alabama, led by Buford. the judiciary of the Territory, at the head of which was Lecompte, began its sessions. Early in May th, took occasion to add some comments. Slidell stated that being in the anteroom conversing with Douglas, Fitzpatrick of Alabama, and J. Glancy Jones of Pennsylvania, a messenger rushed in and said that some one was beating Mr. Sumner. He said:—
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ensions, of which the other members were Jones of Iowa (chairman), Clay of Alabama, Seward of New York, and Thompson of New Jersey. On Cass's motion he was appointed one of the two members of the committee on enrolled bills. Greeley, writing in tassed by a vote of ninety-three to sixty-eight. The Speaker appointed as the committee Campbell of Ohio, Pennington of New Jersey, Spinner of New York, Cobb of Georgia, and Greenwood of Arkansas,—the first three Republicans and Northern men, the lastt. The report and resolutions were defended by the Republican members,—by Bingham and Giddings of Ohio, Pennington of New Jersey, Simmons of New York, Woodruff of Connecticut; and by Massachusetts members, Comins, Damrell, and Hall. They, maintainally different civilizations. Fremont was defeated in the national election, losing five free States,—Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Indiana, Illinois, and California; but Massachusetts gave him nearly seventy thousand plurality, and nearly fifty thou<
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referring to Jones's contemptuous tone towards Wilson, instanced similar attempts at an earlier time he advised to take precautions against it. Wilson's and Bingham's testimony. (Congressional Gloimself and others were going home with him. Wilson's testimony. Congressional Globe, p. 1357. Su's lodge until they heard he had gone home. Wilson's testimony. Ibid., p. 1357. Sumner, after letheir eyes meeting, they bowed to each other. Wilson's departure left no further obstacle in Brooksngs at Rev. Mr. Sampson's, on Sixth Street. Wilson's testimony, Congressional Globe, p. 1357. He he Senate as soon as he could return there. Wilson's speech at Worcester, June 4. Boston Telegraons, Seward himself should make the motion. Wilson's Rise and Fall of the Slave Power, vol. II. and was thought to signify a lack of courage. Wilson's whole conduct exempts him from all suspicionpp. 271-280. Von Holst, vol. v, pp. 328-3:33. Wilson's Rise and Fall of the Slave Power, vol. II. [5 more...]
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expressing the hope that he would deliver many such. Lydia Maria Child thought it magnificent, meeting the requirements of the time with so much intellectual strength and moral heroism, finding nothing in it which offended either her taste or her judgement. Count Gurowski found it grand and beautiful in thought, and not less so in form. John Jay wrote: Thanks for your glorious speech, that will now thrill the American heart to an extent never known before. Rev. R. S. Storrs, Jr., of Brooklyn, N. Y., sent thanks for the speech, unanswerable except by the bludgeon,—a magnificent exhibition not only of mental force and culture, but of Christian and patriotic feeling, of regard for righteousness, and supreme devotion to liberty and to truth. . . . Great powers, great themes, and a magnificent opportunity are rarely combined in the experience of one man; but still more rarely does that eminent and Christian spirit unite with them which enables a man to consecrate the powers, ennoble t
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