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Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 7: (search)
and more intent on domination, the Whig party yielded more and more to its arrogant demands, and, in the national convention held in Philadelphia on the first day of June, united with the advocates of slavery in the nomination of Zachary Taylor — a slaveholder, and known to be adverse to the Wilmot Proviso — for the presidential chair. Henry Wilson and Charles Allen, delegates from this State, denounced the action of the body; and returning home held with their associates, in the city of Worcester, on the 28th of June, a grand mass-meeting, over which Charles Francis Adams presided. Able speeches were made, calling for a union of men of all parties to resist the aggression of the slaveholding power. Mr. Sumner here came forward, and, in a speech of signal force and earnestness, announced in these words his separation from the Whig party: They [referring to Mr. Giddings and Mr. Adams, who had just spoken] have been Whigs; and I, too, have been a Whig, though not an ultra Whig
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 8: (search)
Sumner's literary Pursuits. his political Views. his remarks on Utopian ideas. his position defined. oration before the American peace Society. encomium on peace. war pictures. a beautiful peroration. the Free-soil party. Convention at Worcester. address to the citizens of Massachusetts. argument in respect to colored schools. equality of all men before the Law. Daniel Webster's Subserviency to the South. the Fugitive-slave Law. Mr. Sumner's effective speech thereon. demands of ns of the Northern people, and, under the direction of such clearheaded men as Henry Wilson, Stephen C. Phillips, Charles A. Phelps, and Charles Sumner, gradually acquired position and commanding influence. At a convention of the party held at Worcester, Sept. 12, 1849, Mr. Sumner, calling the members to order, said,-- It was the sentiment of Benjamin Franklin, that great apostle of freedom, uttered during the trials of the Revolution, that Where liberty is, there is my country. I doubt no
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 11: (search)
nt opposition. opinions of Messrs. Chase, Giddings, Andrew, and Channing. a Tribute from Whittier. a Specimen of senatorial Tactics. anti-slavery sentiment extending. Formation of the Republican party. Mr. Sumner's Reception and speech at Worcester. tyranny of the slave-power. backbone needed. the American Merchant. Mr. Wilson enters the United-States Senate. the position and out-look. Mr. Sumner's plan of Emancipation. speech in New York May 9, 1855. spread of anti-slavery sentimolid body, the Republican party was, through the constructive power of Henry Wilson and a few other leading politicians, formed in the summer of 1854 to occupy the place of the Free-soil organization. A large convention was held in the city of Worcester on the seventh day of September, over which the Hon. Robert Rantoul of Beverly presided. As Mr. Sumner entered the convention, the whole assembly rose, and with long-continued cheering gave him welcome as their honored champion. He then made
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 13: (search)
eral letters, referring mostly to the interests of the Republican party and of suffering Kansas. On the 17th of November, for instance, he wrote a letter to M. F. Conway, to the effect that State legislatures should contribute to sustain the cause of liberty in Kansas, which, with a letter from Mr. Wilson to the governor of Vermont, was in a great measure instrumental in securing an appropriation of twenty thousand dollars from that State. On the 24th of the same month, to a committee in Worcester, and in reference to the recent Republican victories, he said, All New England, with New York, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Iowa, constitute an irresistible phalanx for freedom, while our seeming reverse in our Presidential election is only another Bunker Hill. In a letter, dated Hancock Street, Jan. 10, 1857, to his friend James Redpath, Esq., who was heroically laboring on behalf of freedom in Kansas, he said, I cannot believe that Massachusetts will hesitate. Her people have already
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 14: (search)
the opinion of S. P. Chase. of Carl Schurz. of N. Hall. personal violence attempted. a body-guard.- resolutions of the Massachusetts legislature. nomination of the Presidential Candidates, 1860. Mr. Sumner's speeches at Cooper Institute, Worcester, and other Places. No skill had he with veering winds to veer; By trampling on the good, himself to rise; To run for any port, indifferent where, So tongue and conscience make fair merchandise. W. W. Newell. Spiriti piu nobili del sue, rgetting self, turning from all temptations of the hour, and, intent only on the cause, With mean complacence ne'er betray our trust, Nor be so civil as to prove unjust. In a strong speech at the State Convention of the Republican party at Worcester, Aug. 29, he laid open the fallacy of the double-headed doctrine of popular sovereignty proposed by Mr. Douglas, who was ready to vote slavery up, or vote it down. So in open-air meetings at Myrick's Station, Sept. 18, and at Framingham, Oct.
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 15: (search)
er. Extract from his Letters. Mr. Lincoln's Inaugural. Mr. Sumner appointed chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations. his influence with Mr. Lincoln. his passage through Baltimore. a steady friend of the colored race. his speech at Worcester. he advocates Emancipation. Tribute to Col. E. D. Baker. his speech on the Trent Affair. resolutions for Emancipation. article from the Atlantic Monthly. abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia. Hayti and Liberia. confiscatiohe cause of war. On the opening of the Thirty-seventh Congress, July 4, 1861, he was at his post; and the volumes of the Congressional Globe disclose the active part he took in almost every senatorial question through the war. In a speech at Worcester on the first day of October, 1861. he boldly affirmed that emancipation was the best weapon of the war. Two objects are, said he, before us,--union and peace, each for the sake of the other, and both for the sake of the country; but without em