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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)
in its provisions that an eminent character of South Carolina, a Judge of the Supreme Court of the United States [Hon. William Johnson] had characterized it as trampling on the Constitution, and a direct attack upon the sovereignty of the United Stayou our whole force fit for duty, that are properly clothed and properly equipped, does not amount to eight hundred men.—Johnson's life of Greene, vol. i. p. 340. Writing to Mr. Varnum, a member of Congress, he says:— There is a great spistructive, that it is the greatest folly in the world to trust the liberties of a people to such a precarious defence.— Johnson's Life of Greene, vol. i. p. 397. Nothing can be more authentic or complete than this testimony. Here, also, is wh says:— The slaves a second time flocked to the British army.—Vol. i. p. 336. And at a still later day, Mr. Justice Johnson, of the Supreme Court of the United States, and a citizen of South Carolina, in his elaborate Life of General G
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Xlvii. (search)
ent against the venerable Senator. Massachusetts had commissioned a distinguished gentleman, of blameless life and eminent professional qualities, who served with honor in the other House [Hon. Samuel Hoar], to reside at Charleston for a brief period, in order to guard the rights of her free colored citizens, assailed on arrival there by an inhospitable statute, so gross in its provisions that an eminent character of South Carolina, a Judge of the Supreme Court of the United States [Hon. William Johnson] had characterized it as trampling on the Constitution, and a direct attack upon the sovereignty of the United States. Massachusetts had read in the Constitution a clause closely associated with that touching fugitives from service, to the following effect: The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States, and supposed that this would yet be recognized by South Carolina. But she was mistaken. Her venerable representativ
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Xlviii. (search)
viting this way, especially when I assure you our whole force fit for duty, that are properly clothed and properly equipped, does not amount to eight hundred men.—Johnson's life of Greene, vol. i. p. 340. Writing to Mr. Varnum, a member of Congress, he says:— There is a great spirit of enterprise prevailing among the mil. But their mode of going to war is so destructive, that it is the greatest folly in the world to trust the liberties of a people to such a precarious defence.— Johnson's Life of Greene, vol. i. p. 397. Nothing can be more authentic or complete than this testimony. Here, also, is what is said by David Ramsay, an estimable c describing the invasion of the next year, says:— The slaves a second time flocked to the British army.—Vol. i. p. 336. And at a still later day, Mr. Justice Johnson, of the Supreme Court of the United States, and a citizen of South Carolina, in his elaborate Life of General Greene, speaking of negro slaves, makes the