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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)
g me good news of you. I am glad you are at Chicago, if you must be away from Massachusetts. Trumbull is a hero, and more than a match for Douglas. Illinois in sending him does much to make me forre; we accept the issue. Two days later, in a controversy with his new Republican colleague Trumbull, he revelled in personalities, and became so offensive that a Southern senator (Crittenden) calow, as heretofore, he attributed baseness and base purposes to Sumner and his other opponents. Trumbull met him with spirit, saying, as he finished, I shall never permit him [Douglas] here or elsewhet its power to a hitherto untried test,—that of hanging a traitor. He discharged his venom on Trumbull, describing him as a traitor, and invoking on him the penalties of treason, even that of death.d the right of free speech in manly words, and his determination to maintain it at every cost. Trumbull sought an opportunity to speak, but the Senate stopped the debate. Seward remained silent; his
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, chapter 14 (search)
y bed. After my walk I find myself obliged again to take to my bed for two hours before dinner. But this whole treatment is in pleasant contrast with the protracted sufferings from fire, which made my summer a torment; and yet I fear that I must return again to that treatment. It is with a pang unspeakable that I find myself thus arrested in the labors of life and in the duties of my position. This is harder to bear than the fire. I do not hear of friends engaged in active service, like Trumbull in Illinois, without a feeling of envy. From Aix he went with short pauses to Northern Italy by way of Geneva, Lausanne, Vevay, Soleure, Berne, Zurich, Schaffhausen, Constance, Rorschach, Ragatz, and the Splugen, meeting his friend Fay at Berne, and visiting at Ragatz the tomb of Schelling, in whom he had taken a fresh interest from hearing Mignet's discourse at the Institute. His wanderings during October cannot be traced in order; but after Bellagio he visited Milan, Brescia, Vicenz