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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 30: addresses before colleges and lyceums.—active interest in reforms.—friendships.—personal life.—1845-1850. (search)
ate. Works, vol. i. pp. 385-485. Gerrit Smith was so much interested in the lecture that he sent fifty dollars to Joshua Leavitt, with a view to supplying a copy to every professional man in New England. It gives an account of the efforts of European governments and our own to abolish Algerine slavery, of the experiences of captives, their heroic endeavors to escape, and the generous sympathies which their cause inspired in Christian nations. It abounds in references to authorities and extrte carping. Again, in September, 1849:— I envy your enthusiasm and warm-heartedness. I envy even its errors, and almost wish for the generous illusion which in your case, as in Titania and Nick Bottom, leads you to invest American and European patriots with qualities the very reverse of those apparent to common-sense. God bless you! Sumner's old teacher, Edward T. Channing, the well and gratefully remembered Professor of Rhetoric at Harvard College, wrote Aug. 25, 1849:— my
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 31: the prison—discipline debates in Tremont Temple.—1846-1847. (search)
were contested points. The separate system, first tried in Pennsylvania, drew the attention of European philanthropists and publicists, and their reports after personal inspection were uniformly in iad suppressed all reference to opinions in its favor, and particularly to the approval of it by European commissions and European writers and publicists, and to its adoption by European governments inEuropean writers and publicists, and to its adoption by European governments in the construction of prisons. In this and other speeches Sumner charged that Dwight garbled the documents from which he made extracts, particularly in citing Roscoe and Lafayette. Dwight had citeEuropean governments in the construction of prisons. In this and other speeches Sumner charged that Dwight garbled the documents from which he made extracts, particularly in citing Roscoe and Lafayette. Dwight had cited the opinions of Lafayette in 1825 and 1826, which were adverse to the Pennsylvania system as then existing; but after the system was essentially changed, in 1829, he continued even in 1843 to cite tested by a work published in Philadelphia by F. A. Packard. The debate had been followed by European penologists, particularly by those who had officially visited the American prisons. Tocquevill
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 36: first session in Congress.—welcome to Kossuth.—public lands in the West.—the Fugitive Slave Law.—1851-1852. (search)
proceeding was a departure from our traditional policy of non-intervention in European affairs. It was urged that he had openly declared his purpose to seek the intt, he took occasion to express himself against any belligerent intervention in European affairs, or any departure from the policy of peaceful neutrality inherited frote of things, imposed the duty of resisting intervention when attempted by one European nation against the independence and freedom of another. Several senators—Cassell as on ocean postage he sought through his brother George information as to European methods. The death of Robert Rantoul, Jr., a member of the House from Massabut the President desired him to be assistant secretary, that his knowledge of European affairs was needed, that it was the intention to raise the salary of the offic are concerned will elevate you in the esteem of good men, American as well as European, as a man, an orator, and a statesman. You have now done what I have all alon
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 37: the national election of 1852.—the Massachusetts constitutional convention.—final defeat of the coalition.— 1852-1853. (search)
ot only to wife and children, but to friends and the world, to art and literature. With sorrow unspeakable I learned the first blow of his fatal illness; now I am pained again by the tidings of to-day. Only a few days before I left home he read to me for an hour or more some portions of his book on the Beautiful; and particularly his criticism of Burke. I was then struck by his mastery of the subject, and admired him anew, not only as an artist, but as an expositor of art. I doubt if any European artist has ever excelled him with his pen. He cannot be forgotten in our history, or in the grateful memory of friends. His name will be an honor to his family, and a precious inheritance to his children. My sympathy at this moment I know full well will be of little avail, but the heart speaks from its fulness; I could not refrain. God bless you and your children! To Mrs. Lydia Maria Child, 1802-1880. Mrs. Child, by her intellectual and moral power, holds the first place among Ame
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)
ection be cast upon foreigners coining for hospitality now which will not glance at once upon the distinguished living and the illustrious dead,—upon the Irish Montgomery, who perished for us at the gates of Quebec; upon Pulaski the Pole, who perished for us at Savannah; upon De Kalb and Steuben, the generous Germans, who aided our weakness by their military experience; upon Paul Jones, the Scotchman, who lent his unsurpassed courage to the infant thunders of our navy; also upon those great European liberators, Kosciusko of Poland and Lafayette of France, each of whom paid his earliest vows to liberty in our cause. Nor should this list be confined to military characters, so long as we gratefully cherish the name of Alexander Hamilton, who was born in the West Indies, and the name of Albert Gallatin, who was born in Switzerland, and never, to the close of his octogenarian career, lost the French accent of his boyhood,—both of whom rendered civic services to be commemorated among the vi
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)
e steamer just before it parted from the pilot. Works, vol. IV. pp. 398-401. That very morning (just seven years from Webster's speech) the newspapers announced the decision in the case of Dred Scott given by the Supreme Court of the United States the day before,—a decision which denied to the negro national citizenship, and to Congress its immemorial power to prohibit slavery in the national territory. Twenty years before, Sumner sailed from New York on a sailing vessel on his first European journey,—then a youth of twenty-six, now a man of forty-six. Then he went to observe countries and institutions, and to see mankind; now he was to make a weary search for health, constantly receding as he seemed about to grasp it. Behind him, however, was a faithful people, who, through years of waiting, never for a moment thought of placing another in his vacant seat. Von Holst has written— Massachusetts, in which the spirit of ‘76 manifested itself more powerfully every day, was
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 41: search for health.—journey to Europe.—continued disability.—1857-1858. (search)
association with the literary and public men of France, and took pleasure in bringing Sumner into relations with them. He enjoyed Tocqueville's conversations on European politics, and was greatly attracted by the liberal thought of Comte de Montalembert, both sympathetic with his own views on slavery. He had interesting interviended 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 beenll cease,—at all events, that it shall no longer give its tone to our government and to our national character. Why will not Spain follow the example of other European powers, and now of Russia,—and declare emancipation in her colonies? This would do more to settle the slavery question than any blow ever before struck. It wou<
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, chapter 14 (search)
, vast in extent, and of the horses, which were most beautiful in every respect, but with a poignant conviction of the injustice on which it is founded. I saw how this was all for the luxury of one man, and in this seemed to be typified the Austrian empire. Surely it cannot last. At least it has my malediction. With the downfall of Napoleon it will crumble in pieces. During his journey, particularly since leaving Aix, he had been sensible of constant improvement, with increasing strengtt. The mode in which I have spoken of you in various newspapers with which I am connected, at and after the time your name came prominently before English readers as that of the champion of a noble cause, may witness for me. With hope that your European tour may produce a complete restoration to health, and that a long career of distinguished honor and success awaits you in your own country, believe me, etc. Lady Hatherton, acknowledging, July 14, 1863, Sumner's letter of condolence on her
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 43: return to the Senate.—the barbarism of slavery.—Popular welcomes.—Lincoln's election.—1859-1860. (search)
ms, now serving his first session in Congress. He was frequently at the table of Lord Lyons, 1817-1887. He was in Washington from 1858 to 1865. now British minister, with whom he remained in agreeable intercourse while the latter continued at Washington. He became intimate with Rodolph Schleiden, Mr. Schleiden has for several years lived in Freiburg in Baden, where the writer had the pleasure of meeting him in 1889. minister from the Hanseatic towns from 1853 to 1864, well versed in European affairs, and a shrewd observer of public men and passing events. The two bachelors dined together at least once a week, either at Schleiden's apartment or at a restaurant. Among entertainments given by Mr. Schleiden was a dinner, two days before Mr. Lincoln's inauguration, to the diplomatic corps, when Seward and Sumner had seats together at the table. Their topics were American and foreign politics, as well as literature and art. Sumner always valued the observations of an impartial sp