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C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 2 2 Browse Search
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rd Fillmore, who called Mr. Webster from the Senate to his cabinet. On the 18th of September following Mr. Fillmore signed the infamous Fugitive-Slave Bill. The North, said one, will never submit to this; and we shall make the breaking-point. The sentiment of the lovers of freedom was aroused; and as a pent — up stream breaks through the dam arresting it, so the full torrent of indignation came rolling forth. In a speech at the Free-soil State Convention, held in Boston on the third day of October, 1850, Mr. Sumner denounced, in words of scathing power, the iniquity of this bill. The walls of Faneuil Hall had never echoed to more impassioned strains of eloquence. The words came from the heart, as winged with a celestial fire. A prophet greater than Daniel had come to judgment. The soul sickens, exclaimed Mr. Sumner, in the contemplation of this outrage. In the dreary annals of the past there are many acts of shame; there are ordinances of monarchs, and laws, which have