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Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career. 2 0 Browse Search
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mpt at personal violence been made by Messrs. Keitt, Hammond, Toombs, Wigfall, or others who were present, smarting under the scourge of slavery, would doubtless have been ready to repel it. In commenting on this speech, the correspondent of The Chicago press and Tribune wrote, The speech of Charles Sumner yesterday was probably the most masterly argument against human bondage that has ever been made in this or any other country since man first commenced to oppress his fellowman. Frederic Douglass in his paper truly said, The network of his argument, though wonderfully elaborate and various, is everywhere and in all parts strong as iron. The whole slave-holding propaganda of the Senate might dash themselves against it, a compact body, without breaking the smallest fibre of its various parts. The London Punch said, All the bludgeons in the hands of all the chivalry of the South cannot beat that demonstration of Mr. Sumner's case out of the heads of the public, in and out of t