Named Entity Results, Charles Pinckney Sumner

ere joined by Elizur Wright and Henry Wilson. Sumner came to dine with them, when he was not in Wahis right hand sat Governor Andrew, and either Sumner or Stearns on his left. Doctor Howe and Wilsobosses of that time, but his personal friends, Sumner, Wilson, and Frank Bird himself. In 1872 Em man felt that he could trust. His loyalty to Sumner bordered on veneration, and was the finest traappeared from the club, to the great relief of Sumner and his immediate friends. He had already shothree other candidates in the field; but both Sumner and Wilson brought their influence to bear agaged it in his favor. The difference between Sumner and the administration, in 1872, on the San Do Butler were unable to effect. Frank Bird and Sumner's more independent friends left the club, whic Hotel, and seceded to the Parker House, where Sumner joined them not long afterwards. Senator Wilsof the Bird Club were over. With the death of Sumner, in 1874, its political importance came to an

Sumner. Charles Pinckney Sumner, the father of Charles Sumner, was a man of an essentially veracious nature. He was high sheriff of Suffolk County, Massachusetts, and when there was a criminal to be executed he always performed the office himself. Once when some one inquired why he did not delegate such a disagreeable task to one of his deputies, he is said to have replied, Simply because it is disagreeable. It was this elevated sense of moral responsibility which formed the keynote of Charles Pinckney Sumner, the father of Charles Sumner, was a man of an essentially veracious nature. He was high sheriff of Suffolk County, Massachusetts, and when there was a criminal to be executed he always performed the office himself. Once when some one inquired why he did not delegate such a disagreeable task to one of his deputies, he is said to have replied, Simply because it is disagreeable. It was this elevated sense of moral responsibility which formed the keynote of his son's character. Charles Sumner's mother was Miss Relief Jacobs, a name in which we distinguish at once a mixture of the Hebrew and the Puritan. She belonged in fact to a Christianized Jewish family, but how long since her ancestors became Christianized remains in doubt. Yet it is easy to recognize the Hebrew element in Sumner's nature; the inflexibility of purpose, the absolute self-devotion, and even the prophetic forecast. Sumner was an old Hebrew prophet in the guise of an America