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Baltimore, Md. (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
but thinks he is exempt from any obligation to obey His laws of physiology. After 1844 he had only slight and temporary illnesses. At the end of March, 1846, Prescott Was obliged by an affection of the eye to suspend his studies, and he desired Sumner to join him in a vacation. They passed nearly a week in Washington, a week in New York, where their time was divided between society and visits to an oculist (Sumner writing from New York as the historian's amanuensis), and some days in Baltimore, with other pauses on the journey. Ticknor's Life of W. T. Prescott, p. 246. I was, said Mr. Prescott, in his journal. provided with a very agreeable fellow-traveller, in my excellent friend Mr. Sumner. At Washington they dined with Mr. Webster, Sumner, in an interview with Mr Webster during this visit, asked him which of his (Mr. W.'s) writings and speeches he thought to be the best, and was surprised when Mr. Webster answered the Creole letter. See ante, vol. II. p. 193. Mr. Ban
Hungary (Hungary) (search for this): chapter 2
ainst Rome is! George writes me from London (where he is trying to induce Palmerston to acknowledge the independence of Hungary) that he has a letter from Madame de Tocqueville, in which she abjures for her husband all connection or sympathy with ty pleasant, curious, and instructive. I was glad to read that disavowal of the Roman expedition, and that sympathy with Hungary. Poor Hungary! I fear by this time her case has been decided; and with her falls the whole revolutionary movement of tHungary! I fear by this time her case has been decided; and with her falls the whole revolutionary movement of the present time. With railroads and liberty of the Press, in ten years from now they will be ready for another endeavor. Another revolt was averted by the adoption of a liberal policy towards Hungary by Austria, under the law of Dec. 21, 1867. MHungary by Austria, under the law of Dec. 21, 1867. Meanwhile, the peace movement will have an open course. The people will united in the call for disarming; and when the time of trial comes again, the princes will be shorn of mulch of their physical strength. Revolutions, it is said, are not made w
Dorchester, Mass. (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
one. I recently heard of a private letter from Mr. Webster in which he declined to interfere in favor of a person, because he had never done anything for the party. . . . Sumner wrote to his brother, July 17: The offices in Massachusetts have all gone most rigorously according to party service and party caste. Even Hawthorne, who never attended a political meeting or wrote a political article, has been ejected from his small retreat in the Salem custom house. To Edward L. Pierce, Dorchester, December 19:— I thank you much for your kind words of sympathy. They make me forget many of the hard things which it is my lot to encounter. I have read with interest your article on the Independence of the Judiciary, Democratic Review, July, 1848. embodying as it does views in which I was educated, and which I cherished for years. If I hesitate to subscribe to them now, it is because ever open to conviction, and always ready to welcome truth, I have been so much impressed by t
China (China) (search for this): chapter 2
and Longfellow. Death and change of interests eliminated front time to time from the list several between whom and himself many letters had passed. One from Mr. Daveis, of Portland, in 1847, broke a long interval, urging Sumner to attend that year the dinner of the Society of the Cincinnati in Boston, with whom he had last met in 1844. It is perhaps worthy of note that Alexander H. Everett, 1792-1847. as appears by a letter to Sumner just before leaving the country for his mission to China, where he died a year later, named Sumner without his knowledge to Mr. Buchanan, then Secretary of State, for the post of chief clerk in his department, which it was expected would soon be made that of assistant secretary of State. The circumstance shows Mr. Everett's appreciation of Sumner's character and attainments. Sumner had friendly relations with Henry C. Carey, 1793-1879. of Philadelphia, and in 1847 read the proofs of the latter's book, entitled The Past, the Present, and th
Bordentown (New Jersey, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
ons from Mr. Winthrop. Sumner was not in Washington again till after his election as senator. In the late summer or early autumn, Sumner made usually what he called his annual sally,—a journey of two or three weeks. In September, 1845, he visited Chancellor Kent; and the same autumn, when inspecting the prison at Philadelphia, dined with his friend J. R. Ingersoll. The next autumn he was the guest of Mr. Maillard, recently married to Miss Annie Ward, of New York, then occupying at Bordentown, N. J., the mansion of the late Joseph Bonaparte, He described the place in the Boston Whig, 7 Oct. 12, 1846. where he went over its treasures of art, and took rides on horseback through the spacious grounds. Each summer he passed some time with his brother Albert, at Newport. He was often with Longfellow at Nahant as well as at the Craigie House in Cambridge. He enjoyed visits to New York city, where William Kent, B. D. Silliman, John Jay, and George Bancroft To Mrs. Bancroft, for w
France (France) (search for this): chapter 2
ust turn our backs upon England, and repair to France. Meditating on the glowing thought of Pascal, astonishment, and hope by the great news from France,—the greatest event perhaps ever accomplished able influence, not only over the destinies of France, but the progress of civilization. I trust hestablish a property qualification; but may not France set the example of founding her republic on inrisen since your day, tells me that he regards France as a wreck. I suspect that he speaks the opinrson he had seen who had hope in the future of France. I do not disguise my anxiety. France has feFrance has fearful trials in store, the necessary incident of a transition state. She is moving from one house tsts; they have no hope. To them the future of France is full of guillotines, battles, and blood. Ient Lincoln to appoint Mr. Everett minister to France. Antagonisms growing out of the antislaverym more hopeful than people here. I believe in France, in freedom, and in progress; but I have no re[3 more...]
Venice (Italy) (search for this): chapter 2
arm and wake The hearts of men from age to age. This poem of fifty-three verses touches many points of Sumner's character and life. Sumner wrote to Whittier, April 11, 1849:— I have copied from Mrs. Jameson all that relates to Saint Mark and the Christian slave. This was the suggestion of Whittier's Legend of Saint Mark. I commend it to you as a fit subject for a poem. Under your hands it may become a lesson to our people. You will remember Saint Mark as the tutelary saint of Venice. Though an Evangelist, he was not one of the Apostles, but was, I believe, an early convert of Saint Paul. I missed you the afternoon we were to go to Cambridge together. I was sorry to lose the opportunity of making you and Longfellow better acquainted. Come again. To E. L. Pierce, Brown University, June 24, 1850:— I agree with Professor Lincoln. A reply to a request for advice as to accepting an election as a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. I have always regretted th
Geneseo (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
shington and Philadelphia, and still another about the same time at a station in Boston. After delivering his address at Union College he visited Saratoga, where Dr. Howe joined him, and thence he made an excursion to Trenton Falls, Niagara, and Geneseo, at which last place he was a guest at the Wadsworths'. One who heard him at Union College wrote that he made an impression as an orator in whom it is hard to say whether the gifts of nature or the accomplishments of art in its highest sense arend we will add the stalled ox to our dinner of herbs, and have no strife. He visited William Jay at Bedford. Other visits were to his classmate Henry Winthrop Sargent at Fishkill-on-the-Hudson, to the Grangers at Canandaigua, the Wadsworths at Geneseo, and the Porters at Niagara. Occasionally he visited Saratoga. Sometimes he extended his journey to Canada. He had friends there,—among them Lord Elgin, Lord Elgin was the brother of Sir Frederick Bruce, afterwards minister to the United S
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the same frequency as before. The latter's poems and prose works were read to him in manuscript or proof. It was rare that on Sundays he did not visit the Craigie house at Cambridge, going thither by the omnibus from the morning service at King's Chapel. The poet wrote in his journal, Dec. 23, 1847, Sunday is Sumner's day, and he came as usual; Some, but not all, of these visits are recorded in Longfellow's journal. Life, vol. II, pp. 95, 101, 112, 115, 127, 130, 131, 133, 136, 146, 14g. Marini, the grand basso, gave him especial delight. When Jenny Lind gave concerts in Boston, in October, 1850, he enjoyed her very much, and kindly took me three evenings to hear her. Sumner attended on Sundays the morning service at King's Chapel, sitting at the head of the family pew; but it was not congenial to him. The pastor, Rev. Ephraim Peabody, To be distinguished from Rev. Andrew P. Peabody, who held an open antislavery position. did not conceal even in his pulpit his dista
Branciforte (California, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
ons. This is known to schoolboys who lave translated the Exegi monumentum, and the orations against Catiline. Nelson, in his single interview with Wellington, whom he did not at the time know, talked of himself in so vain a style, even like a charlatan, as almost to disgust the latter, but a few moments later seemed a different man, when learning who his companion was he talked like an officer and statesman; The Croker Papers, vol. II. p 233. Oct. 1, 1834. and yet Nelson had fought at Santa Cruz and Aboukir, and was to die at Trafalgar. John Adams's vanity was proverbial. To him praise was always sweet incense; and yet so sterling was his patriotism that no flattery in a foreign court or at home could swerve him a hair's-breadth from devotion to his country. The historian, Bancroft, in a conversation with the writer, made a comment on John Adams, which in substance corresponds with the text. When power exists in a man, he will rarely fail to know it. Merit and modesty, it has
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