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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)
antage of your conversation and of your overflowing knowledge and sympathy, too. Daily and hourly I plead for firmness against concession in any form. Sunday evening I had a visit from Thurlow Weed and Seward. The former told me that he found himself alone. Nobody united with him. I rejoiced. Aspinwall and Corning are here for the same object. They urge that we cannot have a united North unless we make an effort for adjustment; to which I reply: We have the verdict of the people last November—that is enough. But these compromisers do not comprehend the glory of a principle. Perissent les colonies plutot qu'un principe That exclamation exalts a period which has many things to be deplored. The slave States are mad. They will all move. Nothing now but abject humiliation 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.
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Xxviii. (search)
antage of your conversation and of your overflowing knowledge and sympathy, too. Daily and hourly I plead for firmness against concession in any form. Sunday evening I had a visit from Thurlow Weed and Seward. The former told me that he found himself alone. Nobody united with him. I rejoiced. Aspinwall and Corning are here for the same object. They urge that we cannot have a united North unless we make an effort for adjustment; to which I reply: We have the verdict of the people last November—that is enough. But these compromisers do not comprehend the glory of a principle. Perissent les colonies plutot qu'un principe That exclamation exalts a period which has many things to be deplored. The slave States are mad. They will all move. Nothing now but abject humiliation 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.