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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 60 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 17 1 Browse Search
Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865 4 0 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 36: first session in Congress.—welcome to Kossuth.—public lands in the West.—the Fugitive Slave Law.—1851-1852. (search)
llmore's failure to receive the Whig nomination for President may have aided the petition, it was thought at the time, as his position, if a candidate, might have been embarrassed by granting it. The President was favorably impressed with the merits of the case, but doubted his power to release parties held for non-payment of fines which at least in part were payable to the owners of the slaves. At his suggestion, Sumner submitted a brief, Works, vol. III. pp. 49-72. Sumner consulted George Bemis on the points to be made. which the President referred to Mr. Crittenden, the Attorney-General, who, reserving any expression on the merits of the case, affirmed the President's power in the premises. The President acted promptly, and in fulfilment of a promise made to Sumner communicated to him a favorable decision in a note dated August 11, and signed by himself, stating that he had already executed a pardon. Further process to hold the men being apprehended, Sumner hurried to the jai
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, chapter 14 (search)
fellow-countrymen,—William C. Bryant, Professor Felton, George Bemis, Thomas N. Dale, and Mrs. Ritchie of Boston; and among National Library, where he turned over the engravings. Mr. Bemis, who met Sumner in Paris later in his sojourn, was astoniten days, visiting places of interest in company with Mr. George Bemis, of Boston, whom he found unexpectedly at the Hotel Vaestum. With all his weakness, his energy was too much for Bemis. The latter, whose journal and oral account are here follo, drove him to her apartment in the Palazzo Barberini. Mr. Bemis thus wrote in his journal of Sumner's conversation duringthered a stock of photographs at Macpherson's; visited with Bemis galleries and churches and studios. The latter wrote in hiy reserves. He remained in Paris a month, meeting there Bemis, Motley, Bigelow, and Joseph Lyman, and seeing much of Theoth whom he drove six hours the day after Parker's arrival. Bemis wrote in his journal an account of a conversation in Sumner