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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, chapter 1 (search)
ll Frondeurs, from the faction in the days of the Reqence. These people were naturally ill-affected toward the progress of republicanism in Europe, and were quite unanimous in their want of sympathy with the uprisings of 1848. They were as much perplexed with fear of change as kings or any privileged orders. Life of Ticknor, vol. II. pp. 230, 234, 236. Sumner wrote to his brother in 1852: You must not confound the opinion of Boston with that of Massachusetts. The Commonwealth is for Kossuth; the city is against him. The line is broadly drawn. The same line is run between my political supporters and opponents. The city is bigoted, narrow, provincial, and selfish; the country has more the spirit of the American Revolution. One cannot but note a certain type in the portraits of the Boston men of this period as they hang in private houses, libraries, and museums, where they appear like strong-featured, and, as Mr. Webster called them, solid men. Their heads, as cut by artist
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)
ter 36: first session in Congress.—welcome to Kossuth.—public lands in the West.—the Fugitive Slave the session, on the resolution of welcome to Kossuth. When the Hungarian patriot, after the subjury. This also was opposed on the ground that Kossuth had done nothing to deserve an extraordinary ol. III. pp. 3-9. he began with a tribute to Kossuth and his cause, and advocated his reception bySumner's friends. The popular enthusiasm for Kossuth seemed likely to affect national politics, an wrote to John Bigelow, Dec. 13, 1851:— Kossuth errs, all err, who ask any intervention by gowithout mincing or reserve. . . . I have seen Kossuth several times. He said to me that the next mrtant points. I pleaded at the same time for Kossuth and for what I know to be the true policy of e, 6 What a magnificent speech Wilson made to Kossuth! I have read nothing for months which took sepresentative of freedom. The country is for Kossuth; the city is against him. The line is clearly[6 more.