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Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 16: (search)
shall this evening call with my carriage at your house, to take you with me to the inauguration ball. Sincerely yours, Abrahiam Lincoln. Mr. Sumner accepted the invitation; the president called for him with his carriage, and on arriving at the ball-room desired him, greatly to the astonishment of those present, to take the arm of Mrs. Lincoln, and the seat of honor. This was Mr. Lincoln's method of terminating personal animosities. By the surrender of the rebel army, under Gen. Robert E. Lee, to Gen. Grant, April 9, Mr. Sumner saw with inexpressible delight the Union saved, and the chains of the bondmen rent asunder. But the hour of gladness often changes unexpectedly to the hour of sorrow. The joy attendant on the realization of his long-cherished hope of peace and freedom was on the evening of the 14th turned to the keenest agony, by the assassination of his noble and beloved friend the president of the United States. Mr. Sumner attended the illustrious patriot in h
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 19: (search)
levation of the human race. To a friend, referring to his religion, he once said, I take religion differently from other people; nor have I much to boast of, any way. Just before leaving Boston for the last time, he made an address at the Church of the Disciples, in which, says one then present, with profound and even tearful emotion, he spoke of the love of Christ as no man could speak who had not long and intimately known that love. Mr. Sumner's works, published in elegant style by Messrs. Lee and Shepard, received his critical revision, and will constitute his most enduring monument. Well could he say of them,-- Exegi monumentum aere perennius. His last book, now in press, is entitled Prophetic Voices concerning America, and displays to great advantage the extent of his historical researches, and his anticipations of a glorious future for this continent. The style of Mr. Sumner is clear as sunlight. As the course of some majestic river it flows on, smooth, full, fr