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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 30: addresses before colleges and lyceums.—active interest in reforms.—friendships.—personal life.—1845-1850. (search)
r is difficult and rare. My sincere and devout wish is that the son of my beloved classmate may attain to such a character in the highest degree; that he may be adorned with every virtue; that he may rise to eminence in reputation, in goodness, and in usefulness. In a later letter, dated July 10, in which he approves Sumner's efforts for peace, Dr. Woods enjoins his young friend to peruse and re-peruse the best works on ethics and theology,—as those of Bishop Butler, Robert Hall, and Robert Boyle. Joshua R. Giddings in his first letter to Sumner, Dec. 13, 1846, wrote of the Phi Beta Kappa oration:— I feel constrained to express to you my thanks for that able production. It is calculated to make men better, to raise the standard of virtue, and to excite an exalted love of virtue. The approval of your own conscience, the respect of good men, and the blessings of Heaven will reward such efforts. William H. Seward wrote Dec. 16, 1846 (his first letter to Sumner), of the
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)
er's shirt while the wounds were being dressed. Dr. Boyle's testimony, Congressional Globe, p. 1360; Dr. PerAt this time it was thought he could not survive. Dr. Boyle, whom a messenger had met on the way, was brought the concussion of the brain, or of erysipelas. Dr. Boyle's testimony, Congressional Globe, p. 1360; Dr. Perp. p. 1119; Buffinton's testimony, Globe, p. 1363, Dr. Boyle's, p. 1:64; Dr. Perry's, p. 1364; Dr. Perry's stath. The wound on the right side of the lead, which Dr. Boyle had closed over the day before with collodion, hadhe mean time, discontinued, on Wednesday the 28th, Dr. Boyle's services, George Sumner, by letter June 20, rune 23 (Congressional Globe, p. 1438), in reply to Dr. Boyle's, read by Butler June 16 (p. 1414), disclaimed thhis testimony or his offer to become Brooks's bail. Boyle, though no question was made as to his professional ched his throat as if to tear it open. His friend Dr. Boyle, who had dressed Sumner's wounds, was his attendan