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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)
1852. He wrote to the Earl of Carlisle, Nov. 9, 1852:— I will say that nobody but Mr. Webster could have made the Fugitive Slave bill in any degree tolerable at the North, and he is now dead. In his tomb that accursed bill lies buried. The Lawrences have returned full of warm regard for you and England. Mr. Ingersoll, his successor, is an amiable gentleman, and a friend of mine. I trust his hardness against antislavery may be changed in England. To Miss Wortley, London, November 10:— Two events of importance have happened here,—Mr. Webster's death, and General Pierce's election. the first has caused in this part of the country a profound sensation, vying even with that caused in England by the death of the Duke of Wellington. It is evident that he did not die too soon. The business of his office had of late been neglected, and several matters seriously compromised by mismanagement,—among, which was the affair of Lobos and the fisheries question. Mr. Evere
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 38: repeal of the Missouri Compromise.—reply to Butler and Mason.—the Republican Party.—address on Granville Sharp.—friendly correspondence.—1853-1854. (search)
titution in the exercise of a power incidental to other principal duties, which it did not have upon the court itself. National Intelligencer, October 31. Sumner's reply may be found also in the National Era, November 9, and the Liberator, November 10. A brief review of the political situation in Massachusetts, as affected by the conflict between slavery and freedom in Congress, is necessary to an understanding of Sumner's political position at this time. An effectual resistance to then its early proceedings in Massachusetts. Others of them, after the failure of the attempted fusion in July, 1854, joined it, Many Whigs who had been disappointed by the failure of the proposed fusion joined it. The Springfield Republican (November 10) attributed the growth of the order to the failure of the effort to unite the opponents of the extension of slavery. Life and Times of Samuel Bowles, vol. i. pp. 125-127. and earnest and active as they were, exercised a predominant influenc
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, chapter 14 (search)
ers on the night of the election, and startled the streets of Munich. In this country there has been a constant snow-storm, which has outdone all that I have ever seen of snow at this season. At Munich there were six inches in the streets,— And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser rolling rapidly. Excuse this scrawl, which I write in the public room of an humble inn while two Germans near me are discussing poetry and sipping coffee. To Dr. Howe, from the steamer on the Rhine, November 10: In my rapid rambles I have enjoyed much of nature and art. Switzerland every moment, in every mountain, hill, lake, river, valley, and field, filled me with delight. The North of Italy left a painful impression, for everywhere were white-coated Austrians. Germany more than satisfied me by its prevailing intelligence and civilization. I have made many little pilgrimages,—to Brescia, because there was the original of Thorwaldsen's Day and night to Verona, because it sheltered Dant