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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 35: Massachusetts and the compromise.—Sumner chosen senator.—1850-1851. (search)
s no change in his face or in his manner; and the latter was one of perfect quiet and self-possessed dignity. He certainly was far less elated than was my father or any of my father's children; though the elation was natural enough with us, as we were then by no means grown up. Sumner remained at Cambridge two or three nights. Longfellow wrote in his diary, April 24:— A pleasant dinner, at the close of which we heard the news of Sumner's election. In the evening came Lowell and Gurowski and Palfrey, and Sumner himself to escape from the triumph and be quiet from all the noise in the streets of Boston. He is no more elated by his success than he has been depressed by the failure heretofore, and evidently does not desire the office. He says he would resign now if any one of the same sentiments as himself could be put in his place. 25. The papers are all ringing with Sumner, Sumner! and the guns thundering out their triumph; meanwhile the hero of the strife is sitting
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)
thized with its sentiments, and gloried in its genius, calling it an event in itself, made all the greater by what followed, the only answer its opponents were capable of making to it. Dr. Francis Wayland thanked him for the speech, 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 pow