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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 212 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 64 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition. 44 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 36 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 22 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 22 0 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 16 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 12 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 12 0 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 12 0 Browse Search
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C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Fifth: Senatorial career. (search)
etition for those who, though free by the laws of God, are held in Slavery by the laws of the State. There, too, was a noble spirit, the ornament of his country, the exemplar of truth and virtue, who, like the sun, ever held an unerring course, John Jay. Filling the important post of Minister of Foreign Affairs under the Confederation, he found time to organize the Abolition Society of New York, and to act as its President, until, by the nomination of Washington, he became Chief Justice of the riter and poet, earliest in our country among the graceful throng, Sarah Wentworth Morton, at the very period of the National Convention admired by the polite society in which she lived, poured forth her sympathies also. The generous labors of John Jay in behalf of the crushed African inspired her muse; and, in another poem, commemorating a slave, who fell while vindicating his freedom, she rendered a truthful homage to his inalienable rights, in words which I now quote as part of the testimon
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Viii. (search)
rong has been made immortal in his descendants. There also was a companion in arms, and attached friend of incomparable genius, the yet youthful Hamilton, who, as a member of the Abolition Society of New York, had only recently united in a solemn petition for those who, though free by the laws of God, are held in Slavery by the laws of the State. There, too, was a noble spirit, the ornament of his country, the exemplar of truth and virtue, who, like the sun, ever held an unerring course, John Jay. Filling the important post of Minister of Foreign Affairs under the Confederation, he found time to organize the Abolition Society of New York, and to act as its President, until, by the nomination of Washington, he became Chief Justice of the United States. In his sight, Slavery was an iniquity, a sin of crimson dye, against which ministers of the gospel should testify, and which the Government should seek in every way to abolish. Were I in the Legislature, he wrote, I would present a b
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., X. (search)
ake of consistency, to cease to deprive their fellow-creatures of freedom, which their writers, their orators, representatives and senators, and even their Constitution of Government, have declared to be the inalienable birthright of man. A female writer and poet, earliest in our country among the graceful throng, Sarah Wentworth Morton, at the very period of the National Convention admired by the polite society in which she lived, poured forth her sympathies also. The generous labors of John Jay in behalf of the crushed African inspired her muse; and, in another poem, commemorating a slave, who fell while vindicating his freedom, she rendered a truthful homage to his inalienable rights, in words which I now quote as part of the testimony of the times: Does not the voice of reason cry, Claim the first right that Nature gave; From the red scourge of bondage fly, Nor deign to live a burdened slave. Such, sir, at the adoption of the Constitution and at the first organization of
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Ninth: Emancipation of the African race. (search)
asure, however, was soon to come before Congress. After a long and disjointed debate in the House of Representatives, a Bill was adopted by that body to establish a Bureau of Freedmen's affairs. When the Bill reached the Senate, a substitute was prepared by Mr. Sumner, for the House Bill was by no means satisfactory. Some of the best men in the country laid before the Committee different projects,—no less than nine or ten in all,—and among their authors were such men as Robert Dale Owen, John Jay, and Edward L. Pierce. But the Bill drafted by Mr. Sumner, and adopted by his Committee, after having been prepared with the utmost care, was presented to the Senate, and explained and enforced by Mr. Sumner in an able speech. It embraced ten sections, the first of which provided that An office should be created in the Treasury Department, to be called the Bureau of Freedmen, and meaning thereby such persons as have become free since the beginning of the present war. From this most ef
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Ii. (search)
asure, however, was soon to come before Congress. After a long and disjointed debate in the House of Representatives, a Bill was adopted by that body to establish a Bureau of Freedmen's affairs. When the Bill reached the Senate, a substitute was prepared by Mr. Sumner, for the House Bill was by no means satisfactory. Some of the best men in the country laid before the Committee different projects,—no less than nine or ten in all,—and among their authors were such men as Robert Dale Owen, John Jay, and Edward L. Pierce. But the Bill drafted by Mr. Sumner, and adopted by his Committee, after having been prepared with the utmost care, was presented to the Senate, and explained and enforced by Mr. Sumner in an able speech. It embraced ten sections, the first of which provided that An office should be created in the Treasury Department, to be called the Bureau of Freedmen, and meaning thereby such persons as have become free since the beginning of the present war. From this most ef