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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)
ve written that Walter shall not be my husband, God has decreed that I shall die a widow never married. He did return to the Mohawk Valley. He married Bella. He returned to the war; and on the eve of the great day of Antietam he heard that his son was born, and the hero-father died by the side of Hooker.—Sic transit gloria mundi. How much Liberty costs! sadly said Mr. Sumner. But it is cheap at any price. Liii. In the memorable speech of Mr. Sumner at Cooper Institute, September 10, 1863, on Our Foreign Relations, Mr. Greeley, who had been suspected of a lack of cordial approval of some of Mr. Sumner's views, said in a communication to the Independent: Mr. Sumner's speech is not, therefore, a mere rehearsal and arraignment of national wrongs already endured; it is a protest and a warning against those which are imminently threatened. In showing how deeply, flagrantly, France and England have already sinned against us, he admonishes them against persistence in the
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Liii. (search)
Liii. In the memorable speech of Mr. Sumner at Cooper Institute, September 10, 1863, on Our Foreign Relations, Mr. Greeley, who had been suspected of a lack of cordial approval of some of Mr. Sumner's views, said in a communication to the Independent: Mr. Sumner's speech is not, therefore, a mere rehearsal and arraignment of national wrongs already endured; it is a protest and a warning against those which are imminently threatened. In showing how deeply, flagrantly, France and England have already sinned against us, he admonishes them against persistence in the evil course on which they have entered, against aggravating beyond endurance the indignities and outrages they have already heaped upon us. * * Mr. Sumner's is the authentic voice, not of the mob, but of the people. He utters the sentiments of the conscientious, the intelligent, the peacelov-ing. His inoffensive protest against the wrongs to which we have been subjected, is utterly devoid of swagger or menace. It