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Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 18: (search)
t.--Abraham Lincoln. La verite, voila mon offrande cherie. Loin de toi pour jamais le vil encens des cours; Flatter le souverain, c'est trahir la patrie, C'est du bonheur public empoisonner le cours. P. D. E. Lebrun. A great man under the shadow of defeat is taught how precious are the uses of adversity; and, as an oak-tree's roots are strengthened by its shadow, so all defeats in a good cause are but resting-places on the road to victory at last.--Charles Sumner. On the twelfth day of May, 1870, Mr. Sumner, ever intent on the uplifting of the colored citizen, introduced his supplementary Civil-Rights Bill, declaring that all persons, without regard to race or color, are entitled to equal privileges afforded by railroads, steamboats, hotels, places of amusement, institutions of learning, religion, and courts of law. The same bill substantially was introduced by him again Jan. 20, 1871. Show me, said he, in speaking on this measure, any thing created or regulated by law,