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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)
sits at the helm. I hear her voice of cheer saying, Whoso sails with me comes to shore. Xxvi. The members of the Free-Soil party, in New York and Boston particularly, had organized courses of lectures on the Slavery question for the first time, to be delivered in those cities; and their example was followed throughout the whole North. Mr. Sumner delivered the closing Lecture of the New York Course at the Metropolitan Theatre on the 9th of May, 1855. The chair was occupied by Hon. William Jay, who introduced the speaker in the following words: Ladies and Gentlemen: I have been requested, on the part of the Society, to perform the pleasing but unnecessary office of introducing to you the honored and well-known advocate of Justice, Humanity and Freedom, Charles Sumner. It is not for his learning and eloquence that I commend him to your respectful attention; for learning, eloquence, and even theology itself, have been prostituted in the service of an institution well des
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Xxvi. (search)
Xxvi. The members of the Free-Soil party, in New York and Boston particularly, had organized courses of lectures on the Slavery question for the first time, to be delivered in those cities; and their example was followed throughout the whole North. Mr. Sumner delivered the closing Lecture of the New York Course at the Metropolitan Theatre on the 9th of May, 1855. The chair was occupied by Hon. William Jay, who introduced the speaker in the following words: Ladies and Gentlemen: I have been requested, on the part of the Society, to perform the pleasing but unnecessary office of introducing to you the honored and well-known advocate of Justice, Humanity and Freedom, Charles Sumner. It is not for his learning and eloquence that I commend him to your respectful attention; for learning, eloquence, and even theology itself, have been prostituted in the service of an institution well described by John Wesley as the sum of all villanies. I introduce him to you as a Northern Sen