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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 405 1 Browse Search
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C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section first: Parentage and education. (search)
cere. So, too, is it with a mourning people; and no offering of affection can be held more sacred than that which flows unbidden from the bereaved heart. Since the death of the Father of the Republic, which filled the country with grief, and threw distant nations into mourning, there have been but three funerals in America which bore even a faint resemblance to that, in the depth and extent of the public sorrow; and these have all occurred within the last few years:—The first was of Abraham Lincoln, who holds the next place to Washington in the hearts of our people, and who is enshrined among the few beloved names which all mankind cherish:— The second was of Horace Greeley, whose death revealed so wide-spread and strangely tender an affection amongst all classes and conditions of men:— And now comes the last name in this wonderful triumvirate of great, gifted, and good men, who, taken together, will in ages to come be mentioned on the same historic page, whenever the leaf <
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Xxviii. (search)
ion from citizens of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts of African descent, presented to the Senate by Charles Sumner, a Senator of Massachusetts, be returned by the Secretary to the Senator who presented it. Supposing that this resolution would be called up, Mr. Sumner prepared some notes of a speech he intended to deliver on the subject, in which the following paragraph occurred: There is a saying of antiquity, which has the confirming voice of all intervening time, that Whom the Gods would destroy, they first make mad. And now, sir, while humbled for my country that such a proposition should be introduced into the Senate, I accept it as an omen of that madness which precedes the fall of its authors. But the resolution never was called up, and no other resolution of such tyrannical hardihood and shameless insult, was ever renewed in that Senate house, for the great struggle was at hand, in which Abraham Lincoln was to be triumphantly elected President of the United States.
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Xxx. (search)
Xxx. On the 29th of the same month, the Republicans of Massachusetts assembled in Mass Convention at Worcester, to ratify the nomination of Mr. Lincoln for President, and John A. Andrew, for the first time, as Governor of Massachusetts. Mr. Sumner delivered the principal speech, on The Presidential Candidates, and the Issues of the Canvass. He went into a clear and analytical exposition of the entire merits of the question,—the comparative claims for support of Lincoln and Hamlin, represeLincoln and Hamlin, representing the now formidable Republican party; of Breckenridge and Lane, the candidates of the now clearly announced champions of the Democratic Pro-Slavery Party; of Douglas and Johnson, the candidates of the seceding body of Democrats, known as the Douglas, or Squatter Sovereignty Party; and of bell and Everett, candidates of the few old remaining Whigs, who, like venerable barnacles, were still clinging to a sinking ship. Nothing but imperative necessity exeludes that speech from this volume.
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Seventh: return to the Senate. (search)
and no other resolution of such tyrannical hardihood and shameless insult, was ever renewed in that Senate house, for the great struggle was at hand, in which Abraham Lincoln was to be triumphantly elected President of the United States. Xxix. On his way from Washington, after the adjournment of Congress, at the invitation of for disease. Xxx. On the 29th of the same month, the Republicans of Massachusetts assembled in Mass Convention at Worcester, to ratify the nomination of Mr. Lincoln for President, and John A. Andrew, for the first time, as Governor of Massachusetts. Mr. Sumner delivered the principal speech, on The Presidential Candidates, and the Issues of the Canvass. He went into a clear and analytical exposition of the entire merits of the question,—the comparative claims for support of Lincoln and Hamlin, representing the now formidable Republican party; of Breckenridge and Lane, the candidates of the now clearly announced champions of the Democratic Pro-Slaver
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Vii. (search)
of the Republic. As Mr. Sumner rose to speak, the warmth of his reception indicated feelings of gratitude for his public services, that must have been grateful to him after all that had occurred. But he well knew that the Republican party even in Massachusetts, was by no means unanimous in regard to the policy which the administration should pursue on the subject of slavery. It is well remembered by those who were sufficiently informed at the time, that the Anti-Slavery tendencies of Mr. Lincoln and his Cabinet were far from being of a radical type. The President had from the beginning, emphatically announced that he entertained no hostility against Slavery, nor did he propose to interfere with it where it existed by due process of law. It is safe to say that no member of his Cabinet differed with him materially in these respects: nor did any considerable portion of those who participated in the early events of the war, mix up the merits or demerits of Slavery with the subject.
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., X. (search)
war, that I had constant and confidential intercourse with Mr. Sumner himself; and as this record is confined mainly to the part he acted in the great drama, I shall make some statements of my own knowledge concerning facts which could not at the time be communicated to the public. During the whole period of the war, I kept a daily record of facts concerning men and events; and from that record I shall transfer much relating to the views and course of Mr. Sumner, as well as those of President Lincoln, the progress of whose opinions I traced with indescribable interest up to the moment the Proclamation of Emancipation was issued, when his policy was fully settled. From the stand he then took, he never afterwards deviated the breadth of a hair; although he was frequently obliged either to act against the well-known views of several members of his Cabinet, or, as sometimes occurred, without their knowledge, and solely on his own responsibility, since he knew that the country would ho
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Xi. (search)
the offenders. No mention had been made of Slavery in these bills, but they indicated a policy altogether too vigorous to command at that time the approval of Mr. Lincoln. The difference—and a very great one it was—between the two men's views, was, that Mr. Sumner believed the hour had come for resorting to the full exercise of the War Power, desiring to have the President boldly lead the way in the enunciation. But Mr. Lincoln could not see it in that light; and on the 17th of July, the day that intervened between Mr. Sumner's two bills, the following General Order from Headquarters, was issued by Mr. Cameron, Secretary of War: Fugitive slaves wilcompany troops on the march. Commanders of troops will be held responsible for a strict observance of the Order. In fact, during the first year of the war, Mr. Lincoln's administration acted in superfluous good faith with the Rebels. Only a week after the Secretary's Order, the Attorney-General instructed the Marshals of Miss
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., XIII. (search)
e, are Hereby declared freemen. A shout of gladness went through the country when Fremont's act became known. But Mr. Lincoln still hung back,—doubtless for reasons which, to his usually sound judgment, were overruling. He said at the time to 't consider that the President of the United States could claim any special monopoly in that line— That reminds me, Mr. Lincoln, of a neighbor of ours in Connecticut, to whom, one fall, we gave some apples, with directions how to preserve them. announced that he had opened his apples. Well, did they keep? Yes, said he, they kept: but they were all rotten! Mr. Lincoln, who was kind enough to laugh at other people's jokes as heartily as he expected everybody to laugh at his own, took ilit, I intend to have them touch it off themselves. While Mr. Sumner was disposed to render all the aid he could to Mr. Lincoln, he everywhere advocated a widely different policy,—the one which he first announced at Worcester,—repeated and reite
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Xvi. (search)
became secesh when sailing in disloyal waters. In another circle of men, or women, or both (all of the upper classes, so called), serious and downcast looks were seen, and to every new visitor the deep and painful regret was expressed lest Mr. Lincoln might be going too far in making his arrests; and are they not arbitrary? And then to take gentlemen from their offices, and even from their sleeping-chambers, and convey them to a distant city, and plunge them into a foul prison, tenanted bycklessly, and scatters fire, arrows, and death through peaceful and loyal communities, to go on in his dreadful mission unchecked, unmanacled, unchained? If such men escape justice, where can good citizens look for it? If the severity of Mr. Lincoln is complained of by treason—hatchers or treasonmongers, how infinite must be the all-forgiving benevolence of that much-abused man! No! no! a thousand times No! No blood rests on that troubled head. Those abettors and agents of Davis w
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Xix. (search)
Xix. On this occasion Mr. Lincoln was present. He entered the Senate Chamber, supported by the Senators from Illinois, and was presented to the Vice-President, who invited him to a seat by his side on the dais appropriated to the President of the Senate. Mr. Sumner uttered the following words: Mr. President: The Senator to whom we now say farewell, was generous in funeral homage to others. More than once he held great companies in rapt attention while doing honor to the dead. Over the coffin of Broderick he proclaimed the dying utterance of that early victim, and gave to it the fiery wings of his own eloquence: They have killed me because I was opposed to the extension of slavery, and a corrupt administration; and as the impassioned orator repeated these words, his own soul was knit in sympathy with the departed; and thus at once did he win to himself the friends of Freedom, though distant. * * Baker was Orator and Soldier. To him belongs the rare renown of this double
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