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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 30 0 Browse Search
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition 10 2 Browse Search
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Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill) 3 1 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 31: the prison—discipline debates in Tremont Temple.—1846-1847. (search)
attractions of style and manner, and, except Mr. Gray and Dr. Howe, knew very little of the subjectcal antipathy to Sumner and Dr. Howe; and Francis C. Gray, 1796-1856. Mr. Gray was in his youth Mr. Gray was in his youth the private secretary of John Quincy Adams at the time of the latter's mission to Russia. His writiitations of Lafayette's and Roscoe's opinions. Gray began to speak, but at eleven the meeting adjourned. At the next and final meeting Gray replied to Sumner's speech, and Sumner followed with a rejion. I never shall forget his readiness when Mr. Gray read a garbled extract from a report, and saiying, Here it is, sir, and the audience found Mr. Gray's part better than the whole. Gray seemed toGray seemed to me very foxy. Poor Dwight looked crushed. He was astonished at the revelation of his own misdeedsr may not, be his. Late in the year 1847 Mr. Gray's pamphlet on Prison Discipline in America waot disturb the personal relations of Sumner and Gray, and the latter's pamphlet was the occasion of [1 more...]
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 39: the debate on Toucey's bill.—vindication of the antislavery enterprise.—first visit to the West.—defence of foreign-born citizens.—1854-1855. (search)
rican, or Know Nothing, party taking the same position as the Republican on the slavery question, prevailed at the election, and their candidate for governor, Henry J. Gardner, received a large plurality. The Boston Whigs (the remnant of the party long dominant in the State) again resisted the fusion, and gave a third of the fourteen thousand votes which were received by the Whig candidate, Samuel H. Walley, who was supported in speeches or letters by Choate, Winthrop, Hillard, Stevenson, F. C. Gray, and N. Appleton,—names already familiar to these pages. Their newspaper organ, the Advertiser, with unchanged proprietorship, appealed to old prejudices, and rallied Whig voters with the charge that the Republican party was a geographical and sectional party, with aims and tendencies hostile to the Union and the Constitution. So virulent was its partisanship that on the morning after the election it counted triumphantly, using capitals, the aggregate vote of Know Nothings, Democrats, a
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 41: search for health.—journey to Europe.—continued disability.—1857-1858. (search)
ospitable welcome. July 6. Lady Mary Labouchere took Gladstone and myself to her place, The estate has been sold. the famous Stoke, with the churchyard where Gray was buried, and part of the old manor-house where Sir Edward Coke died; walked with Gladstone two miles to the railroad; enjoyed his conversation much; in the even August 1. Went to Stoke Park to visit the Laboucheres. There were Mr. and Mrs. William Cooper and Lord and Lady Bagot. August 2. Sunday. Went to church in Gray's church; wandered about his churchyard; visited the monument of Lord Coke; in the afternoon drove to the chapel at Windsor, where was a choral service; called on , 185. but the richest treasures of the kind he found in the library of Harvard College, where under the guidance of Dr. Louis Thies he went through the remarkable Gray collection. He was so intense in this pursuit that he wearied out any one who joined him in it. Longfellow wrote in his diary, Jan. 21, 1858:-- We again pass