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Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 15: (search)
ew Jackson, containing these remarkable words: Haman's gallows ought to be the fate of all such ambitious men, who would involve their country in a civil war, and all the evils in its train, that they might reign and ride on its whirlwinds, and direct the storm. . . . The tariff was only the pretext (for nullification), and disunion and a Southern confederacy the real object. The next pretext will be the negro or slavery question. To the Crittenden Compromise, introduced into the Senate Dec. 18, and recognizing slavery in the territory south of 36° 30′ north latitude, Mr. Sumner was unequivocally opposed. South Carolina passed the ordinance of secession on the twentieth day of December. Other States soon followed: stout hearts were trembling; yet through the tremendous agitation Mr. Sumner stood to principle firm as a rock. He saw the storm impending; he deprecated bloodshed; he felt that the best way to avert it was for the North to hold itself immovable. He exhorted every on
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 18: (search)
reception both in England and in France, and had interviews with Thiers and Gambetta; but his health was so much impaired, that his time was mostly occupied in looking over engravings and other works of art, I have not read an American newspaper, said he, writing from London, since I sailed out of Boston Harbor; nor have I concerned myself except with engravings, pictures, books, and society. He reached home on the 26th of November, and was present in his seat at the opening of Congress, Dec. 18, when he introduced into the Senate a resolution declaring that the names of battles with our fellow-citizens shall not be continued in the army-register, or placed upon the regimental colors of the United States. A resolution of censure was immediately passed by the General Court of this State, declaring that such legislation meets the unqualified condemnation of the people of this Commonwealth. No man honored more than Mr. Sumner the bravery of the loyal troops; but, as soon as the