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Thompson (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
k, sixteen miles; part of us, then, for thirty miles, rode in a crazy wagon; after that I rode sixteen miles alone in a gig, driving a horse that Rosinante would not have owned as a kinsman, over roads almost impassable to the best animals; every step my horse took was caused by a blow from my whip. It was thus I rode,—literally working my passage, as much as he did who drove the horse on the canal. My shoulder was lame from its excessive exercise in whipping the poor brute. I arrived at Thompson, the first town we enter in Connecticut, about three o'clock, P. M.,—about sixty miles from Boston. Here we dined, and again started weary on our way, with forty miles of heavy travelling before us: changed horses every sixteen miles. The moon was up, making the road less gloomy than it otherwise would have been; but even this deserted us before we arrived at Hartford, which was not till three o'clock of Tuesday morning, having been on the road twenty-three hours. I sat with the driver all
Amboy (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
seventeen hours, in a railway carriage furnished like a drawing-room by day and provided with couches at night, is at once an easy and a commonplace experience. It was then made only by stage-coach and steamboat, except a short railway ride from Amboy to Bordentown (thirty-seven miles）, and another from the Delaware River to the head of the Elk (sixteen and a half). With the dispatch of these days Sumner would, by the time he then reached Hartford, have been some hours at his journey's end. af, giving him an account of it. Thursday morning, at seven o'clock, my baggage was in the hands of a porter, to be conveyed to the Philadelphia boat. And here was a delightful passage. First, thirty miles in a fast-sailing, spacious boat to Amboy; thence, thirty-seven miles on the railway, which we travelled in about two hours, part of the way going at the rate of more than twenty miles an hour. The interval between landing from the steamboat and starting on the railway was but a minute.
Worcester County (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
r due corporate authority,—a legal inquiry, which, under the circumstances, somewhat amused his companions. At the beginning of September, 1834, Sumner, anxious to enter at once on practice,—there being no court in session at Boston having authority to grant admissions to the bar,—applied to the Court of Common Pleas, sitting in Worcester (Chief-Justice John M. Williams, presiding), where on the third of that month he was admitted as an attorney, after a recommendation by the bar of Worcester County, of which Pliny Merrick and Charles Allen were then the leaders. D. Waldo Lincoln, Lincoln was the son of Governor Lincoln, for whom Sumner's father cherished a lively gratitude. Ante, pp. 21, 22. a fellow student in College and at the Law School, who was admitted at the same time, interested himself in the preliminary arrangements for Sumner's admission. Letters. To his family at home, Boston. steamer splendid, from New haven to New York, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 1834. To <
Lowell (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
Chapter 7: study in a law office.—Visit to Washington.—January, 1854, to September, 1834.—Age, 23. Having finished his studies at Cambridge in Dec., 1833, Sumner entered as a student, Jan. 8, 1834, His father noted the day in his interleaved copy of Thomas's Farmer's Almanac. His classmate Hopkinson had desired Sumner to enter his office at Lowell, and Mr. Alvord also invited him to his office in Greenfield. the law-office of Benjamin Rand, Court Street, Boston; a lawyer having a large practice, but distinguished rather for his great learning and faithful attention to the business of his clients than for any attractive forensic qualities. Mr. Rand in the autumn of 1834 visited England, where he was well received by lawyers and judges. His partner, Mr. A. H. Fiske, remained in charge of the office. He had access to the remarkably well-stored library of Mr. Rand, which was enriched on the arrival of almost every English packet. He followed very much his tastes while in the<
Delaware (Delaware, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
pleasures of to-day. I called first upon Judge Story; found him boarding, with the rest of the court, in a house near the Capitol; was most kindly received by him. He wished me to tell you that he should take good care of me. I left Philadelphia Friday morning at seven o'clock, in the boat William Penn,—a large and ample establishment,—sailed forty miles down the Delaware to Newcastle; jumped into a railroad-car, and in an hour and five minutes, by Henry's watch, passed through the State of Delaware to Frenchtown, at the head of Elk River,—General Washington's headquarters,—a distance of sixteen and a half miles; then took the steamer Charles Carroll for Baltimore, down the Elk and Chesapeake and up the Patapsco, upon which Baltimore is situated,—a distance of sixty-four miles,—arriving at Baltimore at six o'clock in the evening, where I stopped at Barnum's till the next morning, being Sunday, at eight and a half o'clock, when I started for Washington, mounting my last stage.
New Castle, Ky. (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
ave not seen, except from a distance, the President's house; and have not traversed the city. All these are the pleasures of to-day. I called first upon Judge Story; found him boarding, with the rest of the court, in a house near the Capitol; was most kindly received by him. He wished me to tell you that he should take good care of me. I left Philadelphia Friday morning at seven o'clock, in the boat William Penn,—a large and ample establishment,—sailed forty miles down the Delaware to Newcastle; jumped into a railroad-car, and in an hour and five minutes, by Henry's watch, passed through the State of Delaware to Frenchtown, at the head of Elk River,—General Washington's headquarters,—a distance of sixteen and a half miles; then took the steamer Charles Carroll for Baltimore, down the Elk and Chesapeake and up the Patapsco, upon which Baltimore is situated,—a distance of sixty-four miles,—arriving at Baltimore at six o'clock in the evening, where I stopped at Barnum's till th
Danvers (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
you, though otherwise to mother and father. The end of the day generally finds me tired and willing to go to bed, or at least indisposed to much exercise of the mind. I have found time, though, to read an able work of Dr. Lieber on the Girard Seminary, and to run my eyes through a law-book on Tenures, and to prepare a law-argument of four pages, to be laid before the Judiciary Committee of the Senate, on Mr. Ward's claim against the United States, Joshua H. Ward, a lawyer practising in Danvers. besides writing the few letters which I have written. This letter will be carried by Judge Story, who leaves to-morrow morning,—the Supreme Court then adjourning. It was my intention to have started with him; but as I should stop, at his recommendation, a day or two in Baltimore, so that I should be obliged to quit him,—and as I should be but an unsocial companion on the road to Baltimore, he riding in the inside and I necessarily on the outside,—I have determined to remain a few days <
Frenchtown (New Jersey, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
ay. I called first upon Judge Story; found him boarding, with the rest of the court, in a house near the Capitol; was most kindly received by him. He wished me to tell you that he should take good care of me. I left Philadelphia Friday morning at seven o'clock, in the boat William Penn,—a large and ample establishment,—sailed forty miles down the Delaware to Newcastle; jumped into a railroad-car, and in an hour and five minutes, by Henry's watch, passed through the State of Delaware to Frenchtown, at the head of Elk River,—General Washington's headquarters,—a distance of sixteen and a half miles; then took the steamer Charles Carroll for Baltimore, down the Elk and Chesapeake and up the Patapsco, upon which Baltimore is situated,—a distance of sixty-four miles,—arriving at Baltimore at six o'clock in the evening, where I stopped at Barnum's till the next morning, being Sunday, at eight and a half o'clock, when I started for Washington, mounting my last stage. The distance is
Hartford (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
lf). With the dispatch of these days Sumner would, by the time he then reached Hartford, have been some hours at his journey's end. At Washington he passed a monthn it otherwise would have been; but even this deserted us before we arrived at Hartford, which was not till three o'clock of Tuesday morning, having been on the road the heavy tramp of the horses over the sounding covered bridge that leads into Hartford. Had we arrived in proper season, we should have jumped aboard the stage to Ny rested; enjoyed a good breakfast; walked through some of the fine streets of Hartford; visited the court, there holding by C. J. Daggett, to whom I sent the kind noackage, Mr. Greenleaf had furnished me. At eleven o'clock, A. M., started from Hartford for New Haven,—a route of forty miles,—where we arrived at eight o'clock in thcture. Many more things I can tell you when I see you. As I passed through Hartford, I saw Judge Daggett on the bench. Not having time to stop, I enclosed your f
Europe (search for this): chapter 7
the courts; visited the waterworks; seen my old schoolmate Peabody, who is a merchant here and boards where I am stopping. I shall start for Baltimore to-morrow at seven o'clock. Your prodigal son, Chas. To his parents. Washington, Monday, Feb. 24, 1834. my dear parents,—Here I am in the great city, or rather the city of great design, of spacious and far-reaching streets, without houses to adorn them or business to keep them lively, with a Capitol that would look proud amidst any European palaces, and with whole lines of houses, which resemble much the erections at Cambridgeport and Lechmere Point,—poor, stunted brick houses, with stores beneath and boarding above. There is nothing natural in the growth of the city. It only grows under the hot-bed culture of Congress. There is no confluence of trade from different parts of the country, and no natural commercial or manufacturing advantages to induce persons to live here. So, for aught I see, it must for ever remain as it
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