Charles Sumner letters, 1856, 1861.

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Charles Sumner letters, 1856, 1861.

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Two letters of Charles Sumner on the subject of slavery. Written in August 1856 to David Hitchcock from Sumner's vacation retreat in the Allegheny Mountains in Pennsylvania, the first letter expresses Sumner's belief that growing public opposition to sectional pro-slavery parties will soon diminish their political power. In the second letter, written in October of 1861 to an unknown recipient, Sumner describes widespread hopes of a rapprochement between North and South but emphasizes that the issue of slavery must be confronted as part of the solution to the crisis. He also briefly discusses the attitudes of France and England towards the conflict in the U.S.

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Hitchcock, David K. (David Keyes), 1813-

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Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

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Massachusetts lawyer and U.S. Senator, 1851-1874. He was an ardent abolitionist who attacked the south in his "crime against Kansas" speech in 1856. Two days later he was assaulted in the Senate, receiving injuries that took him years to recover from. From the description of Letters, 1858-1869. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 55768315 Born in Boston, Mass., the U.S. statesman Charles Sumner studied law at Harvard and practiced law in his native ci...