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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 32: the annexation of Texas.—the Mexican War.—Winthrop and Sumner.—1845-1847. (search)
als was broken by a very earnest leader from C. F. Adams in the Whig, in which he treated Winthrop's vote as a positive sanction of the worst acts of the Administration, and charged, using the interrogatory form, that he had set his name in perpetual attestation of a falsehood. He wrote thus: According to the best estimate we can form of political morality, if he could expunge the record of it by the sacrifice of the memory of all his preceding brilliant career, he would make a bargain. July 16. Adams repeated the charge in nearly the same terms later,—Boston Whig Nov. 20, 1847; Feb. 1, 1848. When this was written Sumner had not taken his pen, and nothing which he afterwards wrote exceeded in substance the measure of Adams's severe condemnation of the vote. The Advertiser then broke the silence it had maintained, and replied to the Whig. July 27, August 3. Withholding a decision between the opposing votes of Winthrop and his colleagues, it treated the question as a difficult
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)
ing with some one. Gorman's testimony, Congressional Globe, p. 1354. Keitt, in his speech of July 16 (Globe App. p. 838), said that though he knew the punishment was to be inflicted, for Brooks hatter, p. 1347; Emundson's testimony, p. 1362; Keitt's remarks, May 23, p. 1292; Keitt's speech, July 16, App. p. 838.) The-e denials were evasive. the two accessories were, according to the testimonrris, and Marshall of Illinois; Hall of Iowa, and Denver of California. The Boston Advertiser, July 16, classified the vote. except John Scott Harrison of Ohio, elected as an American. Three or fouose naturally infirm of purpose were carried along by the popular current. New York Tribune, July 16. The vote to expel did not, however, reach the two-thirds required by the Constitution. Brood in the speech as printed to members from the non-slave-owning States. New York Evening Post, July 16; New York Tribune, July 15; New York Independent, July 24. Harrison wrote a speech in apology
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 41: search for health.—journey to Europe.—continued disability.—1857-1858. (search)
publisher; after dinner again to House of Commons, which was engaged in preventing a member from being heard. July 15. Breakfast at Duke of Argyll's, where were Macaulay, the Milmans, Senior, Reeve, Trench, Maurice, etc.; made calls; went to General Fox's, Charles Richard Fox (1796-1873), eldest son, but not heir, of the third Lord Holland. at his beautiful villa, whose wife, Lady Mary, took me to Holland House, where there was a beautiful fete champetre; dined at Lord Granville's. July 16. Visited the Turner Gallery; also the National Gallery; went to the Dean of St. Paul's (Dr. Milman); House of Lords; dined with Sir Roderick Murchison; then to the House of Commons, where I heard Gladstone, Palmerston, and Disraeli on the Persian War. July 17. In the forenoon went to the House of Lords, where there was a sitting on the Shrewsbury Peerage Case; then to a dejeuner at Grosvenor House, where the company assembled in the magnificent gallery; then to the House of Lords, where