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March (search for this): chapter 15
Dec. 18, 1872. Works, vol. XV. pp. 261-265. He did not appear in the Senate after the next day till the beginning of March, and then not to take part in the proceedings. He wrote to Wilson asking for pairs, and for deferred action on the flaconcurred in adopting it. The movement for rescinding, which began early in January, thus ended in failure at the last of March. The petitioners had to encounter not only the political hostility of some heated partisans of President Grant and a suphe sodium. The pain was hard to bear. Two nights later, however, he had better sleep than at any time for month. In March he had severe attacks of the angina at midnight, as well as in the daytime, calling for the immediate attendance of the dttractive ways at such times are well remembered by visitors of both sexes. Once, and perhaps only once, and that was in March, he had friends to dine with him; and the same month he was present at a dinner given by Mr. Fenton in honor of Mr. Trumb
April (search for this): chapter 15
they sat alone in his study: If my Works were completed, and my civil-rights bill passed, no visitor could enter that door that would be more welcome than Death. Wilson's letter, March 13, 1874, to the meeting in Faneuil Hall. By the middle of April, as spring opened in Washington, he attempted short walks and drives more regularly, walking two or three squares at a time; but such light exercise often exhausted him. On the first day of May he assisted at the wedding of his physician, and therney to New York impossible without stopping, and making walking difficult-would keep me from his funeral. Remember me kindly to Mrs. Claflin, whose visit here was very pleasant to me. The improvement which was apparent in the latter part of April continued through May, with, however, occasional reminders of weakness at the end of his walks. His daily drives in Washington, never so lovely as in May, were a stimulant to health. Mr. Hooper's horses were at his service. Sometimes he drove
January (search for this): chapter 15
only I should despise yet more heartily a North that could ask him to do so. The report was adverse to the petitions for rescinding, and both houses by large majorities concurred in adopting it. The movement for rescinding, which began early in January, thus ended in failure at the last of March. The petitioners had to encounter not only the political hostility of some heated partisans of President Grant and a supposed soldier feeling, but also certain technical objections,—namely, that the r. If not, then poisons fail in their work. God bless you! During these weary months he did not conceal from intimate friends his depression of spirits; and of these were Wendell Phillips and E. L. Pierce, who were his guests,—the latter in January, and the former in February. For this it was easy to detect as the principal cause, in connection with ill health, his shock of disappointment that the country had decided as it had in the last election, and that his appeals and warnings had be
February (search for this): chapter 15
, February 9— Is it true that you are to lecture here next Friday? Then come direct from the station to my house, where you will be at home and welcome as long as you can stay. I hope you will find me much renovated. If not, then poisons fail in their work. God bless you! During these weary months he did not conceal from intimate friends his depression of spirits; and of these were Wendell Phillips and E. L. Pierce, who were his guests,—the latter in January, and the former in February. For this it was easy to detect as the principal cause, in connection with ill health, his shock of disappointment that the country had decided as it had in the last election, and that his appeals and warnings had been ineffectual. He was oppressed by the legislative censure, which in a better condition of health and in a happier mood of mind he would have treated with indifference, or repelled as an impertinence. His friends assured him that partisan clamor never determined the permanen
March 7th, 1873 AD (search for this): chapter 15
his tribute in the New York Independent, March 19, 1874. The Springfield Republican, March 10, 1873, dealt plainly with Mr. Garrison's participation in the contest. He was joined by Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, who having signed the petition for rescinding now appeared to oppose it. E. L. Pierce, at Mr. Whittier's request, closed the hearing with a reply to the remonstrants, in which he sought to make clear the points of controversy, and took issue with Mr. Garrison. Springfield Republican, March 7, 1873. Wendell Phillips, who was unable to attend the hearing, wrote an eloquent defence of Sumner, which was published in the Boston Advertiser, March 11, 1873. He said of a flag containing emblems of victory in the Civil War: I should despise a Southerner who would march under such a flag; only I should despise yet more heartily a North that could ask him to do so. The report was adverse to the petitions for rescinding, and both houses by large majorities concurred in adopting it. The move
October 18th (search for this): chapter 15
friends and new friends came to take his hand he received hearty congratulations on his improved health, and assurances of personal regard and political support. The enthusiasm and devotion which were testified in these individual greetings, and in the responses at the tables, betokened very clearly the sentiment of his State towards him. To Whittier he wrote: Verily, the heart of Massachusetts is returning! The most notable of these festivities was the dinner at the Commercial Club, October 18, at the Revere House, where A. H. Rice, who had pressed his acceptance of the invitation, held the chair as president of the club. Many persons now met him for the first time. He spoke at some length on the importance of a speedy return to specie payments, the proposed centennial exhibition, He gave his views adverse to a world's fair as the proper mode of commemorating the birth of the republic. and the history of clubs. All were charmed with his manner, as well as with what he said
March 10th, 1873 AD (search for this): chapter 15
, to object to any interference with the action of the last Legislature of which he had been the promoter. To the surprise of the public, he was supported by William Lloyd Garrison, who had been bitter in his censures of Sumner for opposing the President's re-election. Mr. Garrison's tone in this debate, depreciatory of Sumner, was in contrast with his letters to the senator, already given, and with his tribute in the New York Independent, March 19, 1874. The Springfield Republican, March 10, 1873, dealt plainly with Mr. Garrison's participation in the contest. He was joined by Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, who having signed the petition for rescinding now appeared to oppose it. E. L. Pierce, at Mr. Whittier's request, closed the hearing with a reply to the remonstrants, in which he sought to make clear the points of controversy, and took issue with Mr. Garrison. Springfield Republican, March 7, 1873. Wendell Phillips, who was unable to attend the hearing, wrote an eloquent defence of
March 12th (search for this): chapter 15
fter the next day till the beginning of March, and then not to take part in the proceedings. He wrote to Wilson asking for pairs, and for deferred action on the flag resolution. Boston Journal, Jan. 9, 1873. At the special session which followed in that month he went only once to his seat, and then to present the credentials of Mr. Boutwell, who had been chosen to succeed Mr. Wilson,—leaning on his cane when conducting his colleague to the Vice-President's desk to be sworn. He called March 12 at the treasury department to congratulate Mr. Boutwell on his election. Sumner held at the time the position of a man without a party. The call for a caucus of the Republican senators was drawn in novel terms, inviting those only who had supported the platform and candidates of the party at the late election. A copy was sent to him, probably as notice that he was not expected to attend. The caucus assigned no places to those who had supported Greeley. Partisanship in the Senate, the
October 28th (search for this): chapter 15
or freedom; and it would have been a grateful duty to have paid a tribute to him in a community where the older inhabitants still recalled his youth. Never in his life was Sumner more genial, more glad to see old friends,—those of his youth as well as of his manhood,— or more ready to make new acquaintances. He enjoyed the monthly dinners of the Saturday Club, where were Longfellow, Agassiz, Emerson, Holmes, J. M. Forbes, Dana, Judge Hoar, and others of like spirit. He was present, October 28, when the elder Dana was received with honor. Adams's Life of Dana, vol. II. p. 360. He was with the Radical Club at Mrs. John T. Sargent's, where, in the midst of a sympathetic circle, which included Wendell Phillips, James Freeman Clarke, and T. W. Higginson, he listened to John Weiss's paper on Portia. He was twice on the platform at the Music Hall when Mr. Bradlaugh, M. P., was the lecturer (Wendell Phillips in the chair on one occasion), and declined the call of the audience at the
October 27th (search for this): chapter 15
on of Mr. Alexander H. Rice, afterward governor, he spoke at a meeting at the Merchants Exchange in behalf of sufferers by the yellow fever at Memphis and Shreveport. October 24. Works, vol. XV. pp. 281-283. Mr. Rice, with the view to the senator's re-election, was desirous of keeping him in the current of affairs; and this personal reason, not however communicated to him, prompted in part the invitation. Sumner was to have attended a bi-centenary celebration of the town of Wrentham, October 27, but a furious gale with rain kept away guests from other places, and prostrated the tent in which the dinner and speaking were to be. He would have spoken upon Horace Mann, who was a native of Franklin, a parish of the ancient town; and some notes in pencil of his intended remarks are preserved. He had been in full sympathy with Mann in his early labors for the education of the people, and served with him in his later conflicts for freedom; and it would have been a grateful duty to have
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