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Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 8: (search)
ty, he remarks, It is an everlasting link in the golden chain of human progress. It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard. It can no longer be avoided or silenced. To every man in the land it now says, with clear, penetrating voice, Are you for freedom, or are you for slavery? And every man in the land must answer this question when he votes. Towards the close of the year (Dec. 4) Mr. Sumner made a strong argument before the Supreme Court of the State, against the constitutionality of separate colored schools, establishing his positions both by the constitution and the legislation of the State, as well as by the decisions of the bench. In the course of the argument he said, in reference to the distinction between the Ethiopian and Caucasian races: Each has received from the hand of God certain characteristics of color and form. The two may not readily intermi
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 15: (search)
ion; and, immediately after the triumph of the Republican party in the election of Abraham Lincoln to the presidential chair, in November, public meetings were held in South Carolina urging a secession from the Union. On the opening of Congress (Dec. 4), this determination at once became apparent; and a resolution was presented to the Senate on the following day, that a committee be appointed to inquire into the present agitated and distracted state of the country. In speaking on this resolu he again intimated his desire that emancipation be proclaimed. There has been, said he, the cry, On to Richmond! and still another worse cry, On to England! Better than either is the cry, On to freedom I Soon after the opening of Congress Dec. 4, Mr. Sumner spoke earnestly on a resolution for the discharge of fugitive slaves from the Washington Jail, and characterized the Black Code, prevailing in the District of Columbia, as a shame to the civilization of the age; and on the 11th he del