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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 2 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 2 2 Browse Search
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career. 1 1 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 1 1 Browse Search
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C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Fifth: Senatorial career. (search)
r-de-Lion. Such a charge into the enemy was his first great speech, Freedom National, Slavery Sectional, which he directed against the Fugitive Slave Law. It was a perfect land-slide of history and argument; an avalanche under which the opposing party were logically buried, and it has been a magazine from which catapults have been taken to beat down their fortresses ever since. Ii. Mr. Sumner's credentials as Senator were presented at the opening of the Thirty-second Congress, December 1, 1851, when he took the oath of office. On the 26th of May, 1852, he presented a memorial against the Fugitive Slave Bill. But he was not allowed to proceed with the remarks he desired to make. On no other subject except slavery was any check imposed upon Senators. But in moving the reference of the petition to the Committee on the Judiciary, he remarked that he hoped he was not expecting too much if, at some fit moment, he should bespeak the clear and candid attention of the Senate, whi
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Ii. (search)
Ii. Mr. Sumner's credentials as Senator were presented at the opening of the Thirty-second Congress, December 1, 1851, when he took the oath of office. On the 26th of May, 1852, he presented a memorial against the Fugitive Slave Bill. But he was not allowed to proceed with the remarks he desired to make. On no other subject except slavery was any check imposed upon Senators. But in moving the reference of the petition to the Committee on the Judiciary, he remarked that he hoped he was not expecting too much if, at some fit moment, he should bespeak the clear and candid attention of the Senate, while he undertook to set forth frankly and fully, and with entire respect for that body, convictions deeply cherished in his own State, though disregarded in the Capital; convictions to which he was bound by every sentiment of the heart, by every fibre of his being, by all his devotion to country, by his love of God and man. Upon these, he said, I do not now enter; suffice it for the p