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Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 14: (search)
y the genial beams of freedom? The aim of the progressive party was the dethronement of the slave-power in the national government, and the repression of that power to within the limits of the sovereignty of the States. Mr. Sumner clearly saw and felt the magnitude of the question now at issue between the parties, and with all the power of his commanding eloquence threw himself into the exciting contest. In a splen-did speech before an immense audience at Cooper Institute, on the eleventh day of July, he said that by the election of Abraham Lincoln we shall put the national government right, at least in its executive department; we shall save the Territories from the five-headed barbarism of slavery; we shall save the country and the age from that crying infamy, the slave-trade; we shall save the constitution, at least within the executive influence, from outrage and perversion; we shall help save the Declaration of Independence, now dishonored and disowned in its essential, life-
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 15: (search)
in your crown. The Haytian people subsequently tendered an elegant medal to Mr. Sumner, which he, in accordance with views previously expressed, declined to receive. It was therefore, in 1871, deposited in the library of the State House of Massachusetts. On the 24th of April Mr. Sumner reported a bill, on which he made effective remarks, for the final suppression of the slave-trade, which, to the disgrace of humanity, was still protected by our flag. The bill was approved by Mr. Lincoln July 11; and thus, by treaty with England, that inhuman traffic was at last prohibited. In his anxiety for the suppression of the rebellion, and the upraising of the slave, Mr. Sumner spoke with great vigor in the Senate, May 19, urging the confiscation of rebel property, and emancipation, as in accordance with the rights of sovereignty and of war. He also again spoke with much force on the same subject, June 27, when he said in respect to liberation, The language of Chatham is not misapplied wh
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 17: (search)
hen Mr. Covode introduced into the house the resolution of impeachment. While Mr. Stanton was remaining in suspense concerning his own course of action, Mr. Sumner sent to him this epigrammatic letter, which in point of brevity surpasses even Caesar's celebrated Veni, vidi, vici. Senate Chamber, 21st February, 1868. Stick. Ever sincerely yours, Charles Sumner. Hon. E. M. Stanton. On the acquittal of the president in May following, Mr. Stanton resigned his office. On the 11th of July Mr. Sumner spoke at length against the president's scheme of repudiation, and in favor of completing reconstruction through public faith and specie payment. The word of our nation, said he, must be as good as its bond. He strongly urged economy; and, on the principle that State affairs should be conducted on the line of uncompromising and eternal justice, said,-- I call your attention to three things in which all others centre. The first is the public faith; the second is the public