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C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Lviii. (search)
Lviii. Public meetings, too, were held in the Northern States, at which resolutions were adopted and speeches were made by their ablest and most distinguished men. Faneuil Hall did not remain silent. At a large and deeply excited meeting, held without distinction of sect or party, Peleg W. Chandler, a leading politician, after alluding to the fact that he was Mr. Sumner's personal friend but political opponent, said: It is precisely because I have been and am now his personal friend, and it is precisely because I have been and now am his political opponent, that I am here to-night. * * * Yet personal feelings are of little or no consequence in this outrage. It is a blow not merely at Massachusetts, a blow not merely at the name and fame of our common country, it is a blow at constitutional liberty all the world over, it is a stab at the cause of universal freedom. Whatever may be done in this matter, however, one thing is certain, one thing is sure. The blood of this Northern
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Lx. (search)
Lx. The opinion of Europe concerning Mr. Sumner was all one way. There, his high character and public services were fully understood. There was no Pro-Slavery party in Europe, outside of Spain; nor throughout the whole civilized world, beyond the limits of the United States, did Mr. Brooks find an apologist. No act in the barbarous record of Slavery, nor all of them put together, had done so much to alienate mankind from it and its brazen champions. And when at last the Southern States seceded, and the Confederacy turned its eyes abroad for recognition and sympathy, it met with disdain and contempt from every nation and every class in the Old World, except the Cotton Kings and the Aristocracy of Great Britain. The ruling classes of England, to some extent, did sympathize with the Southern Rebellion, as they had from the hour of the Declaration of Independence greeted with friendly recognition every harbinger of evil to the rising Republic of the West. These classes had built
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Lxi. (search)
Lxi. Not many years afterwards, what a change had come over the nation, and what a vindication was finally to be made! For time at last sets all things even—— And if we do but watch the hour, There never yet was human power Which could evade, if unforgiven, The patient search and vigil long Of him who treasures up a wrong. The same bells that had rung out their chimes so merrily to usher in the Rebellion, and reecho the curses of South Carolina upon the name of Sumner, were all tolling his death-knell on the morning when the telegraph flashed the news that the great champion of Freedom was no more. But we will now forego any expression of exultation or gratitude on this account, and resume the thread of our narrative. It will lead us through scenes of suffering and blood. It will remind us of a hundred battle-fields where Liberty had once more to pass through the fires of conflict—a conflict compared with which, all the struggles of the old Revolution were but the pangs <
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Lxii. (search)
Lxii. In opening his great Speech—the Crime against Kansas—Mr. Sumner said, May 19th and 20th, 1856:— Mr. President,—You are now called to redress a great wrong. Seldom in the history of nations is such a question presented. Tariffs, army bills, navy bills, land bills, are important, and justly occupy your care; but these all belong to the course of ordinary legislation. As means and instruments only, they are necessarily subordinate to the conservation of Government itself. Grant them or deny them, in greater or less degree, and you inflict no shock. The machinery of Government continues to move. The State does not cease to exist. Far otherwise is it with the eminent question now before you, involving, as it does, Liberty in a broad Territory, and also involving the peace of the whole country, with our good name in history for evermore. Take down your map, Sir, and you will find that the Territory of Kansas, more than any other region, occupies the middle spot of
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Lxxxii. (search)
ce to the Senator, I quote his precise words. The President of the United States is under the highest and most solemn obligations to interpose; and if I were to indicate the manner in which he should interpose in Kansas, I would point out the old Common Law process. I would serve a warrant on Sharp's rifles; and if Sharp's rifles did not answer the. summons, and come into court on a day certain, or if they resisted the Sheriff, I would summon the posse comitatits, and I would have Colonel Sumner's regiment to be part of that posse comitatus. Really, Sir, has it come to this? The rifle has ever been the companion of the pioneer, and, under God, his tutelary protector against the red man and the beast of the forest. Never was this efficient weapon more needed in just self-defence than now in Kansas; and at least one article in our National Constitution must be blotted out before the complete right to it can be in any way impeached. And yet such is the madness of the hour, t
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Sixth: the interval of illness and repose. (search)
quard return to the Senate I. When the assault was made on Mr. Sumner, he was not only in perfect health, but in the enjoyment of a degt may be printed. [The remainder of the speech is printed from Mr. Sumner's manuscript.] Iii. More than five months have passed sinnce in the spinal cord. What then shall be the remedy? inquired Mr. Sumner. Fire, answered Dr. Brown-Sequard. When can you apply it? To-mowed by seven other applications, always without chloroform, since Mr. Sumner remarked that he wished to comprehend the whole process; and as fof June, and the result justified the sagacity and learning of Mr. Sumner's very great medical adviser. Probably within the whole range of ming, and more than friendly assiduity, of Dr. Brown-Sequard, that Mr. Sumner's valuable life was protracted with almost unabated vigor during the long period of sixteen years. To show the elasticity of Mr. Sumner's mind, and the strange power of recuperation his physical system po
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., I. (search)
I. When the assault was made on Mr. Sumner, he was not only in perfect health, but in the enjoyment of a degree of physical strength and corresponding intellectual vigor, that few men ever possess. It was the testimony of the surgeons and by-standers who saw his body entirely undressed for an examination, to trace the extent of his injury, that they had never seen a human form more perfectly developed, for beauty, symmetry, and power. It was the belief of the many eminent surgeons and distinguished men on both sides of the Atlantic, who, during the next three or four years, treated his case professionally, that the only hope for his ultimate recovery lay in the exceptional and almost unparalleled vigor and vitality of his physical system. After the assault, from which he supposed he would recover in a few days, it soon became evident that the pressure upon the brain, connected with weakness in the spinal column, would render any early recovery an impossibility. He became the
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Ii. (search)
broad-spreading hospitality took its rise. My earnest desire, often expressed, has been, that I might be allowed to return home quietly, without show or demonstration of any kind. And this longing was enforced by my physical condition, which, though vastly improved at this time, and advancing surely towards complete health, is still exposed to the peril of relapse, or at least to the arrest of those kindly processes of Nature essential to the restoration of a shattered system. But the spontaneous kindness of this reception makes me forget my weakness, makes me forget my desire for repose. I thank you, sir, for the suggestion of seclusion, and the security which that suggestion promises to afford. Something more, sir, I would say, but I am admonished that voice and strength will not permit. With your permission, therefore, I will hand the reporters what I should be glad to say, that it may be printed. [The remainder of the speech is printed from Mr. Sumner's manuscript.]
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Vii. (search)
the spine, producing disturbance in the spinal cord. What then shall be the remedy? inquired Mr. Sumner. Fire, answered Dr. Brown-Sequard. When can you apply it? To-morrow, if you please. Why not by the moxa, which was followed by seven other applications, always without chloroform, since Mr. Sumner remarked that he wished to comprehend the whole process; and as for the pain, he cared nothinghad taken place in the month of June, and the result justified the sagacity and learning of Mr. Sumner's very great medical adviser. Probably within the whole range of modern chemistry, its subtle e owing to the matchless learning, and more than friendly assiduity, of Dr. Brown-Sequard, that Mr. Sumner's valuable life was protracted with almost unabated vigor during the long period of sixteen years. To show the elasticity of Mr. Sumner's mind, and the strange power of recuperation his physical system possessed, he spent most of the time during the painful treatment he was subjected to, in
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Seventh: return to the Senate. (search)
rgely,—roused the same infernal spirit which Mr. Sumner had so forcibly depicted, and a party of rufribune, wrote, June 5th: The speech of Charles Sumner yesterday, was probably the most masterly respondent of the New York Evening Post: Mr. Sumner's speech was a tremendous attack upon Slaverpions. Iv. On the 4th of June, 1860, Senator Sumner, in rising to deliver his speech on The Bas not agreeing with the Institution. When Mr. Sumner resumed his seat, Mr. Chestnut, of South Careen how they were foiled by the vigilance of Mr. Sumner's friends. Xxviii. Shortly after the dfrican descent, presented to the Senate by Charles Sumner, a Senator of Massachusetts, be returned bing that this resolution would be called up, Mr. Sumner prepared some notes of a speech he intended applause broke forth. It is the first time Mr. Sumner has spoken in public since he was laid low ihe first time, as Governor of Massachusetts. Mr. Sumner delivered the principal speech, on The Presi[9 more...]
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