... The Independent said: History will select for peculiar honor her few grand names; and above the long, low level of shifty statesmen the form of Charles Sumner will long rise grand and solitary, like Teneriffe seen from the sea. Henry Ward Beecher, in the Christian Union, wrote: It is not too much to say that in the death of Charles Sumner the nation has lost a statesman of a type in which he had no peer...