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C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Eighth: the war of the Rebellion. (search)
rts, with a view to the suppression of the Slave-trade. It was signed by Mr. Seward and Lord Lyons on the 7th of April. On the 24th of that month Mr. Sumner introduced a Resolution of ratification, accompanied by so convincing a speech, that the ayes and noes were dispensed with, and the resolution agreed to, without a dissenting vote. He had opened his speech by alluding to the fact that Nathaniel Gordon,—a Slave-trader, commanding the Slave-ship Erie,—had been executed in New York on the 21st of the preceding February, being the first in our history to suffer for this immeasurable crime. English lawyers, he continued, dwell much upon treason to the King, which they denounce in a term borrowed from the ancient Romans——lese-majesty; but the Slavetrade is treason to man, being nothing else than lese-humanity. Much as I incline against capital punishment, little as I am disposed to continue this barbarous penalty unworthy of a civilized age, I see so much good in this example, at t
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Xxxii. (search)
rts, with a view to the suppression of the Slave-trade. It was signed by Mr. Seward and Lord Lyons on the 7th of April. On the 24th of that month Mr. Sumner introduced a Resolution of ratification, accompanied by so convincing a speech, that the ayes and noes were dispensed with, and the resolution agreed to, without a dissenting vote. He had opened his speech by alluding to the fact that Nathaniel Gordon,—a Slave-trader, commanding the Slave-ship Erie,—had been executed in New York on the 21st of the preceding February, being the first in our history to suffer for this immeasurable crime. English lawyers, he continued, dwell much upon treason to the King, which they denounce in a term borrowed from the ancient Romans——lese-majesty; but the Slavetrade is treason to man, being nothing else than lese-humanity. Much as I incline against capital punishment, little as I am disposed to continue this barbarous penalty unworthy of a civilized age, I see so much good in this example, at t