...ner's right to make it, in view of what he had suffered from the barbarism of slavery,—making a similar apology for a speech in the House by Owen Lovejoy, brother of the abolitionist killed at Alton . But Sumner had his own view of the historic conflict. To him it was no holiday contest, but a solemn battle between right and wrong, between good and evil, in which the deepest emotions of human ...