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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)
ion on the part of the North can stay them. Nobody can foresee precisely all that is in the future, but I do not doubt that any conflict will precipitate the doom of slavery. It will probably go down in blood. Bon soir! je vous embrasse de tout mon coeur. Ever yours, Charles Sumner. XXIX. The next measure that came up before the Senate, on which Mr. Sumner spoke at any length, was the bill for the Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia, March 31, 1862. On the 16th of April it was approved by the President, who sent a message expressing gratification that the two principles, compensation and colonization, are both recognized and practically applied in the act. The bill had been introduced into the Senate by Mr. Wilson, to provide for a commission to appraise the claims on account of the slaves liberated, limiting their allowance, in the aggregate, to an amount equal to three hundred dollars a slave, and appropriating one million dollars to pay loyal owners
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., XXIX. (search)
XXIX. The next measure that came up before the Senate, on which Mr. Sumner spoke at any length, was the bill for the Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia, March 31, 1862. On the 16th of April it was approved by the President, who sent a message expressing gratification that the two principles, compensation and colonization, are both recognized and practically applied in the act. The bill had been introduced into the Senate by Mr. Wilson, to provide for a commission to appraise the claims on account of the slaves liberated, limiting their allowance, in the aggregate, to an amount equal to three hundred dollars a slave, and appropriating one million dollars to pay loyal owners; to which Mr. Doo-little added the amendment, appropriating one hundred thousand dollars for the colonization of slaves who desired to emigrate to Hayti or Liberia. For, as Mr. Lincoln said of himself, I am so far behind the Sumner lighthouse, that I still stick to my old colonization hobby.