Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . s to arrest the whole anti-slaverymovement and in that way put an end to thedangers which threatened the Union, or whetherhis only thought, as his harshest critics aver,was so to curry favor with the South that hewould gain the Presidency he coveted, theresult was the same: for him moral and politicalsuicide; for those who had believed in himbitter disappointment and disillusion. Happily there was raised up, just then, tolift the flag of freedom which Webster hadallowed to be trampled in the du
Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . s to arrest the whole anti-slaverymovement and in that way put an end to thedangers which threatened the Union, or whetherhis only thought, as his harshest critics aver,was so to curry favor with the South that hewould gain the Presidency he coveted, theresult was the same: for him moral and politicalsuicide; for those who had believed in himbitter disappointment and disillusion. Happily there was raised up, just then, tolift the flag of freedom which Webster hadallowed to be trampled in the dust, CharlesSumner, who had been Phillips friend in collegeand who had latterly been growing greatly inpower and in the confidence of the was Bostonian to the core. The familyhome, where he was born, was on the cornerof Revere and Irving Streets and in the upperpart of the house his aunt kept a private schoolat which he received his first the university Sumner had had a brilliantcareer and after he began the practice of lawin Boston he was able to build up a lucrative. ?^ :^ CO
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