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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Chapter 3: Whittier the politician (search)
same thing was felt ten years later in the management which put Charles Sumner in the United States Senate; and by a curious coincidence, Cale the Coalition of the Free Soil and Democratic parties, placing Charles Sumner in the United States Senate, practically for life — this intereess; at least, when that man is Whittier. On April 24, 1850, Charles Sumner was elected United States Senator from Massachusetts, on the tw grand object in Massachusetts has been attained. We have sent Charles Sumner into the United States Senate,--a man physically and spirituallor this was worked out last summer at Phillips Beach, and I sounded Sumner upon it the evening we left you at that place. He really did not wa representative of her honour, her freedom, and intellect, as Charles Sumner. He is a noble and gifted man, earnest and truthful. I hope gents, defend the course of Banks, and applaud the manly speeches of Sumner. Pickard's Whittier, I. 374. I have gone a little in advance of
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Chapter 8: personal qualities (search)
ight be, he was never caught at a disadvantage and was always ready with some pithy reply. If he had any one firm rule, it was to avoid making a speech, and yet when, being called on unexpectedly to speak at a private service on the death of Charles Sumner, he rose and told off-hand a story of a Scotch colonel, who, being interred with military honours, had an unfriendly regiment detailed to fire a salute over his grave, seeing which, an onlooker said, If the colonel could have known this, he would not have died. --So I feel, said Mr. Whittier. If my friend Sumner could have known that I should have been asked to speak at his memorial service, he would not have died. And he resumed his seat. When, after the meeting, a friend spoke to him of the breathless silence which pervaded the audience, that they might catch every word, the poet quickly replied, Don't thee think they would have listened just as attentively if Balaam's animal had spoken? The element of humour, which early sh
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Index. (search)
179. Stetson, Mr., 59. Stoddard, R. H., 178. Story, W. W., 178. Stowe, Dr. C. E., 104. Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 104; acquaintance with Whittier, 112. Sumner, Charles, 44, 46, 47, 102, 103; elected to U. S. Senate, 45. Swift, Jonathan, 94, 103. T. Tennyson, Alfred, 36, 142, 152; on Whittier's My Playmate, 141. T Tyson, Elisha, 49. U. Underwood, Francis H., his Whittier, quoted, 29-32,58-61. United States, 100; Supreme Bench of, 181. United States Senate, 44; Sumner elected to, 45. V. Van Buren, Martin, 68. Vaudois Teacher, the, 166-168. Ventura, Father, 88. Vere, Aubrey de, 36. Vermont, 35. Villager, the, 87. y, 36, 37; gives up editorship of New England Review, 37; public life, 38, 39; in politics, 40-43; defeats Caleb Cushing, 43; political foresight, 44; his view of Sumner's election, 45, 46; of party organization, 46, 47; becomes an ally of the antislavery movement, 48; opposes Clay, 49; attends antislavery convention, 50; his acco