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Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 11: (search)
reason were dethroned, enough was left to annrihilate the arguments and meet the taunts of Messrs. Mason, Butler, Petitt, and other domineering and abusive senators. At the conclusion of this splendid speech, Mr. Chase said to him, You have struck slavery the strongest blow it ever received: you have made it reel to the centre. Said Mr. Giddings, Sumner stood inimitable, and hurled back the taunts of his assailants with irresistible force. Your recent encounter with the wild beasts of Ephesus, wrote John A. Andrew to him, has been a brilliant success. Sumner, wrote Edward T. Channing to a friend, has done nobly. He is erect, and a man of authority among the slave holders, dealers, and hunters. He has made an historical era for the North. He had done so; for thousands of the temporizing saw, by this masterly exposition of the weakness of the slave-power, and by the ferocity manifested in this debate, that the dark wave of human servitude must be stayed; that there was busines