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Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career. 2 2 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Idaho (search)
854 Law for a system of free schools in the State......Feb. 15, 1855 Trial of some thirty German saloonkeepers in Chicago for violating the prohibitory liquor law just passed leads to a riot, April 21; city placed under martial law......April 22, 1855 Northwestern University, at Evanston, chartered in 1851, is opened......1855 Illinois State University at Normal opened......1857 Many prisoners from the old penitentiary at Alton removed to the new penitentiary at Joliet......May 22, 1858 Debate between Lincoln and Douglas throughout the State on slavery Summer and autumn, 1858 Governor Bissell dies; Lieut.-Gov. John Wood succeeds......March 18, 1860 Abraham Lincoln nominated for President by the Republican National Convention at Chicago......May 16, 1860 Abraham Lincoln inaugurated President......March 4, 1861 General Swift, with six companies and four cannon, leaves Chicago to occupy Cairo, under telegraphic order from the Secretary of War to Governor
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 13: (search)
however, so much impaired, that he could only attend to some minor points of business, and vote on important questions coming before the Senate. Finding no permanent relief, he was constrained again to leave the country; and on the twenty-second day of May, 1858, he took passage at New York, by the steamship Vanderbilt for Havre. In a letter, dated on board The Vanderbilt, May 22, 1858, to the people of Massachusetts, who deeply sympathized with him in his continued sufferings, he made this May 22, 1858, to the people of Massachusetts, who deeply sympathized with him in his continued sufferings, he made this touching allusion: I was often assured and encouraged to feel that to every sincere lover of civilization my vacant chair was a perpetual speech. It was a perpetual speech, which moved, as no words could have done, the national heart to sympathize with those in bondage. In Paris he came under the treatment of the eminent physician Dr. Brown-Sequard, who, when his patient asked what was to be the remedy, replied, Fire. When can you apply it? said Mr. Sumner. To-morrow, if you please, answe
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 41: search for health.—journey to Europe.—continued disability.—1857-1858. (search)
, May 22, just two years from the day when he was assaulted in the Senate, he addressed a letter to the people of Massachusetts, explaining his absence from his post in search of health, and saying he should have resigned it if he had foreseen at the beginning the duration of his disability. Works, vol. IV. pp. 408, 409. The best wishes of his countrymen for his recovery went with him, and the public journals abounded in tender expressions of interest in him. New York Evening Post, May 22, 1858. Just before leaving home he wrote letters to Cobden and Tocqueville on European and American affairs. To the latter he wrote, May 7, from Washington:— I was happy, dear Monsieur de Tocqueville, to hear from you; but I should have been happier still had you written me a few words about affairs in your own country. Everything there seems to portend great changes soon. The present unnatural system of compression cannot endure always. Our politics here continue convulsed by t