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Charles Sumner to William Chace, 4 September 1856
Manuscript letter
[annotated:] Charles Sumner: A letter written to the committee of the Freemont Map meeting P__ Sept 10th
[pencil annotation:] Bought by H.W.L. Dana, Sept. 1944 for $10 from Hau
Cresson. Alleghany Mts.
Penn. 4th Sept ‘56
Dear Sir,
Were I well I should regard your letter as a summons. But I am still in the hands of physicians, by whom I am carefully warned against all public effort. Most reluctantly, at this period of our country’s trial, do I submit.
Accept for the Convention, which will assemble ^at Providence, my best wishes. Let it apply itself with earnestness, diligence & singleness of purpose to the rescue of our fair [p. 2] land from the Tyranny which now degrades it. ___ is room for all – the aged & the young; the conservative and the Reformer. Surely Rhode Island, if not utterly disloyal to herself – if not utterly disloyal to New England civilization—if not utterly disloyal to the Republic, of which she constitutes a part, will rise up as one man & insist that Kansas shall be secured to Liberty & that the Slave Oligarchy shall be driven from its usuped foothold in the National Government. At all events this state, first planted by the author of [p. 3] religious freedom, will see that Human Rights do not suffer through the votes of her children.
Believe me, my dear Sir,
Faithfully Yours,
Charles Sumner
Wm. M Chace Esq.
Chairman &c &-
[pencil annotation:] Bought by H.W.L. Dana, Sept. 1944 for $10 from Hau
Cresson. Alleghany Mts.
Penn. 4th Sept ‘56
Dear Sir,
Were I well I should regard your letter as a summons. But I am still in the hands of physicians, by whom I am carefully warned against all public effort. Most reluctantly, at this period of our country’s trial, do I submit.
Accept for the Convention, which will assemble ^at Providence, my best wishes. Let it apply itself with earnestness, diligence & singleness of purpose to the rescue of our fair [p. 2] land from the Tyranny which now degrades it. ___ is room for all – the aged & the young; the conservative and the Reformer. Surely Rhode Island, if not utterly disloyal to herself – if not utterly disloyal to New England civilization—if not utterly disloyal to the Republic, of which she constitutes a part, will rise up as one man & insist that Kansas shall be secured to Liberty & that the Slave Oligarchy shall be driven from its usuped foothold in the National Government. At all events this state, first planted by the author of [p. 3] religious freedom, will see that Human Rights do not suffer through the votes of her children.
Believe me, my dear Sir,
Faithfully Yours,
Charles Sumner
Wm. M Chace Esq.
Chairman &c &-
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Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site, Code: LONG
Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Latitude: 42.3769989013672, Longitude: -71.1264038085938
Latitude: 42.3769989013672, Longitude: -71.1264038085938
Title: Finding Aid to the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana (1881-1950) Papers, 1744-1972 (bulk dated: 1850-1950)
URL: https://www.nps.gov/long/learn/historyculture/archives.htm#HWLD
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2022/12/20
09/04/1856
Manuscript letter in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana Papers, Series IX. Collected Materials, C. Miscellaneous Famous People. (1002/9.3-159#017)
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Address: 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
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