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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 36: first session in Congress.—welcome to Kossuth.—public lands in the West.—the Fugitive Slave Law.—1851-1852. (search)
advocated—placed the new senator at once among the foremost of the forensic debaters of America. Von Holst bears witness to its overpowering impression on friend and foe alike, its fervency of holy, enthusiastic conviction, its all-overcoming force of moral ideas, and to the feeling which ran both through the North and the South, that a man with a conscience had arisen in the legislative body of the Union. Vol. IV. pp. 219-221. The speech was reviewed from a pro-slavery standpoint in A. S. Bledsoe's Liberty and Slavery. The work which Sumner began in 1852 with only three coadjutors, he finished, as the sequel will show, twelve years later, when he reported and carried the repeal of all laws for the rendition of fugitive slaves. Sumner made an attempt to bring in a bill to repeal the Fugitive Slave law, July 31, 1854, but was voted down by ten yeas to thirty-five nays. He made another effort for the repeal, Feb. 23. 1855, which was voted down,—yeas nine, nays thirty. He