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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 33: the national election of 1848.—the Free Soil Party.— 1848-1849. (search)
tion; Palfrey was a Judas; Sumner, a transcendental lawyer. Adams, Sumner, and Palfrey were styled The Mutual Admiration Society, or Charles Sumner & Co., with their headquarters on Court Street; and they were held up to public odium as ambitious s and unscrupulous, and abounding in inordinate self-esteem, pride of opinion, and cormorant appetite for office. See Atlas in 1848 for February 10; June 19, 22; July 3, 8, 11; August 14, 15, 17, 19, 31; September 5. 7, 13; October 31; November 2, 11, 13, 20, 21; December 14. The same paper, Sept. 6. 1849. applied to Mr. Chase, afterwards chief-justice, the epithet of Joseph Surface. In the issues of October 12, 13, 16, and November 2. Sumner was accused of attempting to mislead the people in holding the Whigs responsible for not resisting the admission of Texas as a slave State. To this charge he replied in a letter,—Atlas, October 16; Advertiser, October 18. The Advertiser, while refraining from the coarse epithets of the Atlas, ga
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 40: outrages in Kansas.—speech on Kansas.—the Brooks assault.—1855-1856. (search)
sability, longing to enter on the political campaign of 1856, one of the most exciting in all our history. Friends interposed with grave warnings to prevent premature activity which might prove fatal. Letters from Wendell Phillips, Josiah Quincy, Colfax, and Seward. He was obliged to content himself with open letters, urging support of the Republican candidates, which were read at public meetings or printed in the newspapers. Works, vol. IV. pp. 348-367. To Dr. Howe he wrote, September 11:— I left the mountains against the counsels of physicians, but because I wished to get nearer to my duties. On reaching here I have consulted my physician, Dr. Wister, who is much pleased with my condition. He says that I am better than he expected; but he sets his face against my thinking of anything except amusement till cold weather; especially is he earnest that I should for some weeks keep away from Massachusetts and all chance of excitement. Sometimes I think him wrong in h
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, chapter 14 (search)
ped in a sheet. He rose late, taking breakfast at 11 A. M., and passing four or five hours of the day on his bed, and retired at eight. He walked and drove among the vineyards and enjoyed the scenery. The guests were all strangers; Christopher Pearce Cranch, an American artist, came for a day to sketch while Sumner was there. but he found one of them, M. Mollier, a French lawyer, very agreeable, and they were correspondents for some years afterwards. Sumner wrote to E. L. Pierce, September 11:— The country about is most beautiful, and the people simple and kind. My life is devoted to my health. I wish that I could say that I am not still an invalid; but, except when attacked by the pains in my chest, I am now comfortable, and enjoy my baths, my walks, and the repose and incognito which I find here. I begin the day with douches, hot and cold, and when thoroughly exhausted am wrapped in sheet and blanket, and conveyed to my hotel and laid on my bed. After my walk I find