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North Carolina (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
inguishing the flames at Lilliput. While at Quebec I made the acquaintance of Conway Robinson, of Virginia, a friend of the Jurist and author of the work on Practice; of his newly-married bride, the daughter of B. Watkins Leigh, and of Judge Gaston 1778-1844. Judge Gaston remained in office till his death. In the State Constitutional Convention of 1835, he opposed the proposition to deprive free negroes of the right to vote which they had previously enjoyed. (the famous William), of North Carolina. They arrived there on a tour, Judge Gaston having left his daughters behind on the Hudson. He, however, proposes to visit Boston next week with them. The judge is a very agreeable and talented man, of remarkable polish and blandness of manner, about fifty-six. I also dined with the venerable Chief-Justice of Lower Canada and his family, and had a very pleasant time. Starting from Quebec at twelve o'clock Saturday night, I arrived in Montreal Monday forenoon at half-past 10 o'clock;
Quebec (Canada) (search for this): chapter 8
hool-boy days, the St. Lawrence, Montreal, and Quebec, both cities of ancient and foreign aspect, ansteamboat for Toronto, Kingston, Montreal, and Quebec. Since I left home, which is just a fortnightall start Monday evening at eight o'clock for Quebec, where I expect to arrive the next day at abouhear about it. Quincy will speak while I am in Quebec; Celebration of the Second Centennial of Hac. If I thought Montreal was foreign, I think Quebec is more so. The upper part of the city, which t to the Falls of Montmorency, nine miles from Quebec, a slender and rather beautiful single fall of, and the observed of all observers. I left Quebec Saturday night (twelve o'clock) Sept. 10, the xtinguishing the flames at Lilliput. While at Quebec I made the acquaintance of Conway Robinson, of, and had a very pleasant time. Starting from Quebec at twelve o'clock Saturday night, I arrived in At Port St. Francis, a landing midway between Quebec and Montreal, I parted with my English friend [4 more...]
Niagara County (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
we] The son of Judge Howe, and a fellow-student of Sumner in the Law School. and his party's names on the book, three days before me. I next met their names at Niagara, which they left the morning of the day on which I arrived, much to my disappointment. I longed to see them. Timothy Walker Of Cincinnati, author of Elementsight, and again by beautiful moonlight: If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight; and so I would have an observer look upon Niagara. The bow of Heaven seems almost perpetually to rest on its face, spanning its white foam and emerald green. It is not withdrawn now, even for the night, for therency, nine miles from Quebec, a slender and rather beautiful single fall of water, said to be two hundred and forty feet high; but, to the visitor of Trenton and Niagara, Montmorency seems like a mill-dam. And yet I am glad to have seen it, for it has enlarged my standard of comparison of Nature's works, and has satisfied a curio
Vermont (Vermont, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
oins of the North, the weather, herald of icy winters, has appeared sooner than with us, nearer the sun as we are. Remember me to my friends. I rejoice with you in the Harvard celebration of to-day, and shall drink a glass of wine to you and old Harvard and Judge Story at my dinner, the bell for which will soon strike. Yours, C. S. To George S. Hillard. Montreal, Sept. 12, 1836. my dear Hillard,—Once again in this French place I send you greeting. I shall carry this letter into Vermont with me, where I shall commit it to the care of the hundred-handed giant who keeps up the intercourse between the different and most distant parts of the country, and wafts a sigh from Indus to the Pole. I have just received yours of Aug. 30, and am sorry that sickness has grappled hold of you. I trust to see you restored on my return. I sympathize with——in his affliction, but am accustomed to view life and the great change in such colors as to consider death very little to be mourned. <
Washington (United States) (search for this): chapter 8
d genial in his manners, and that he took pleasure in conversing with young students who could give nothing in return for his copious stores of learning, except an admiring attention. Judge Charles P. James, formerly of Cincinnati, now of Washington City, writes:— My acquaintance (if it can be called by that name) with Mr. Sumner was made when I was a Sophomore, messing at the same table with him at Mrs. Howe's. Rufus King, of Cincinnati, his cousin James Gore King, J. Frank Tuckerman,uilding. Here is the place for you! You must have it. Of this more hereafter. Felton wrote the article on your Reminiscences; otherwise it would have been done by, Affectionately yours, Chas. Sumner. To Professor Simon Greenleaf, Washington, D. C. Boston, Jan. 25, 1837. my dear friend,—Many thanks for your cordial letter of the 11th from Washington; and much pardon do I need at your hands for the lugubrious, hypochondriacal epistle which I inflicted upon you. I write now to greet
Ligny (Belgium) (search for this): chapter 8
gainst the bad logic of English politicians. You always seem to be ready in the harness,—as the nursery phrase has it, All saddled, all bridled, all fit for the fight. I rejoice that our country has found a son—by adoption or birth is immaterial—so prompt to volunteer in her cause. I think your argument completely successful. Your volume, entitled The Stranger in America, I finished yesterday, having read it with deep interest. I followed you anxiously over every inch of the fields of Ligny, Waterloo, and Namur, and through all the perils that ensued, from hospital to hospital, till the joyous close of this cycle of misfortunes in the love of your fair nurse. Oh, human nature! war did not choke the delicate sensibilities which glow in either sex, or alter the nature of man, which indeed is indestructible. I think the Peace Society could do nothing better than to reprint your chapter on Waterloo as a tract, or at least as an article in one of their journals. It gives the mos<
France (France) (search for this): chapter 8
r for life. In 1839, he became a law professor in the Conservatory of the Arts and Trades; and in 1855 was admitted to the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences. He founded the first Credit foncier of Paris, which became the Credit fancier of France. His funeral on Aug. 18, 1876, though simple in rites, was imposing in the attendance of distinguished men. The religious services were held at the Église de la Trinite, and a discourse was pronounced at Pere La Chaise on behalf of the Academy. terrupted through life. Horace Mann and Sumner were brought together as lawyers and tenants of the same building. Mann was already interested in temperance, education, and the care of the insane,—topics then much agitated; and, like Demetz in France, he was soon to enter on a service for mankind greater than any which is possible at the bar. There are brief records of his interest in Sumner at this time. In Feb., 1837, he urged the latter to deliver a temperance address. Life of Horace M
Baltimore, Md. (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
rts. He died in 1868. John B. Wallace, Reporter of Cases in the Court of the United States for the Third Circuit. He died in Philadelphia, Jan. 7, 1837. David Hoffman, Author of A Course of Legal Study and Legal Outlines. He resided in Baltimore, and later in Philadelphia, and died in 1854. and Jonathan C. Perkins. One of Sumner's friends, younger in the profession than himself, then practising law at Salem, afterwards a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and the editor of Daniell' accustomed to meet them, he talked with them of their studies; and with some he kept up a correspondence after they left Cambridge. One of these, with whom he became quite intimate, was William F. Frick, then an undergraduate, now a lawyer of Baltimore. Thomas Donaldson, of the same city, writes: My acquaintance with him was while I was an undergraduate at Harvard. I remember that he was exceedingly kind and genial in his manners, and that he took pleasure in conversing with young students
Scotland (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 8
had met at Ballston,—Thomas Brown, of Lanfire House, Kilmarnock, a nephew of Lord Jeffrey, a friend of Talfourd, and a member of the Garrick Club of London. Brown took life easily, unencumbered with professional or family cares, and amused himself in travelling and frequenting clubs. His knowledge of English society, particularly of the personal life of English men of letters, made him an interesting companion for Sumner. They corresponded from this time, and afterwards met in London and Scotland. Brown died in Jan., 1873. At Quebec Sumner dined with Chief-Justice Sewall, now well advanced in years, and at Portland enjoyed an opportunity of meeting his much-valued friend, Charles S. Daveis. This journey is in scenery and association, perhaps, the most attractive which the continent affords,—the Hudson River, the falls at Trenton, Niagara, and Montmorency, Lake Champlain, which Sumner had traversed in school-boy days, the St. Lawrence, Montreal, and Quebec, both cities of ancient
Hamburg, Ashley County, Arkansas (Arkansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
was a student of penitentiary science, and made Sumner's acquaintance during his visit to this country in 1835. 1783-1862. Dr. Nikolaus H. Julius. He lived at Hamburg the later years of his life. He gave his time largely to the inspection of prisons, and to writing upon prison systems. He was the German translator of Ticknor'viewed by our jurists with great admiration and regard. According to the direction of my friend, Dr. Lieber, I enclosed your diploma to Messrs. Perthes & Besser, Hamburg. I hope that there will be no miscarriage. If you should do me the honor to write to me, I should be glad to have you write in French. I hope to see you withined. The exchange would, indeed, be unequal; like Diomed, we should give iron for gold. I have directed my bookseller to send to you, through Perthes & Besser, Hamburg, my Reports of the Decisions of Mr. Justice Story, in two volumes; also a work on Admiralty Practice, which was edited and partly prepared by me. Allow me to refe
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