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January (search for this): chapter 2
o fill the place. My audience was most attentive; but my visit was very brief. I left the Court Ho use where I was engaged, at four o'clock in the afternoon, and was addressing the judge again at half-past 9 o'clock the next morning. To W. W. Story, Jan. 14, 1848:— I was glad to hear of your pleasant voyage and happy arrival at superb Genoa. I doubt if there is any place so entirely calculated to charm and subdue a voyager fresh from the commercial newness of America. . . . The January North American has a remarkable article by Franklin Dexter, on the recent book by an Oxford graduate. Modern Painters. I have never seen anything from him so cleverly done. Tidings come constantly of Emerson's success in England. An article in Blackwood, and a very elaborate criticism in the Revue des Deux Mondes place him with Montaigne. To Richard Cobden, February 12:— Though personally unknown to you (for you have doubtless forgotten the dinner at Mr. Parkes's in London,
September 29th, 1846 AD (search for this): chapter 2
not adopt, or a tone with which I cannot sympathize. Professionally I might allude to your style; and I must confess that true to my calling, in reading the Union College oration, I more than once them theme-corrector. Nineteen zodiacs have gone round since I was occupied in that exhilarating office in your behalf; and I assure you, my dear sir, that I rejoice in a supposed fault, now and then, which reminds me of those days and of you. Rev. Andrew P. Peabody wrote from Portsmouth, Sept. 29, 1846:— Permit me to express with my thanks for the copy of your address [at Phi Beta Kappa anniversary] my intense personal gratification in its perusal, and my deep sense of the services which you are rendering to the one great cause of peace, freedom, and progress. Upon that cause you have concentrated the memories and influence of the illustrious men commemorated in your address (I was going to say with consummate art, but it is not so) with a naturalness and spontaneity which shows
February (search for this): chapter 2
sting upon liberal studies as the accompaniment of the pursuit by which a livelihood is gained, with here and there hints suggestive of the pending agitation concerning slavery. It was first delivered late in 1845, was repeated in the following February in the Federal Street Theatre before the Boston Lyceum, and was not finally laid aside till the author entered on his duties as senator. It is printed in his Works, vol. i. pp. 184-213. Sumner did not include this lecture in his two volumes ting at Faneuil Hall, summoned in September, 1846, in consequence of the abduction of a negro, are elsewhere mentioned. He was obliged by the attack of paralysis, which came a few months later, to postpone his return to Washington till the next February, In his speech in the Senate, May 31, 1872 (Works, vol. XV. p. 121), Sumner mentions a conversation with Mr. Adams at his son's house in Boston, just before he left for Washington, when in a voice trembling with age and with emotion he said
November 16th, 1849 AD (search for this): chapter 2
fell on them. Sumner's visits to his friend at the Institution for the Blind at South Boston were constant. He was one of its trustees. Dr. Howe's rooms were at the time the resort of many who were interested in the moral agitations of the period, Palfrey's diary, Dec. 11, 1846, records his going to Dr. Howe's in the evening to meet John C. Vaughan, of Kentucky, where also were Sumner, Richard Hildreth, C. F. Adams, J. A. Andrew, and John W. Browne. Longfellow wrote in his diary, Nov. 16, 1849: Dined at Howe's. A very pleasant dinner. Palfrey, Adams, Sumner, young Dana, all and several Free Soilers. I, a singer, came into the camp as Alfred among the Danes. and who found there not only ethical inspiration, but also, in the society of both sexes, wit, culture, and the love of art and music. Rt. Rev. F. D. Huntington, now Bishop of Central New York. wrote, in 1886:— Everything that calls up the image or reviews the life of Charles Sumner to me is a satisfaction,—a go
September 23rd, 1846 AD (search for this): chapter 2
Sept. 26, 1846:— In common with the scholars and good men of our community, I thank you most heartily for this powerful exhibition of noble and beautiful truths, with which society among us has abundant need to be quickened and purified. The Phi Beta Kappa oration. Those words I am sure cannot be lost; they are words which the young minds among us at least will not willingly let die. my best thanks also are due for your speech at the Whig State convention, In Faneuil Hall, Sept. 23, 1846. which I had before read with delight. I hope that party will understand and appreciate, as they ought, your eloquent admonition to rally round the principles of humanity, freedom, and right, as a standard compared with which all other things shall be held poor and subordinate. . . . Your appeal to the great Senator of Massachusetts gave me a thrill of delight. Would God he could feel it as he ought! Rev. N. L. Frothingham wrote May 14, 1847:— You will not think me, I .hope,
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