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C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Ninth: Emancipation of the African race. (search)
s soon to come before Congress. After a long and disjointed debate in the House of Representatives, a Bill was adopted by that body to establish a Bureau of Freedmen's affairs. When the Bill reached the Senate, a substitute was prepared by Mr. Sumner, for the House Bill was by no means satisfactory. Some of the best men in the country laid before the Committee different projects,—no less than nine or ten in all,—and among their authors were such men as Robert Dale Owen, John Jay, and Edward L. Pierce. But the Bill drafted by Mr. Sumner, and adopted by his Committee, after having been prepared with the utmost care, was presented to the Senate, and explained and enforced by Mr. Sumner in an able speech. It embraced ten sections, the first of which provided that An office should be created in the Treasury Department, to be called the Bureau of Freedmen, and meaning thereby such persons as have become free since the beginning of the present war. From this most effective and beauti
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Ii. (search)
s soon to come before Congress. After a long and disjointed debate in the House of Representatives, a Bill was adopted by that body to establish a Bureau of Freedmen's affairs. When the Bill reached the Senate, a substitute was prepared by Mr. Sumner, for the House Bill was by no means satisfactory. Some of the best men in the country laid before the Committee different projects,—no less than nine or ten in all,—and among their authors were such men as Robert Dale Owen, John Jay, and Edward L. Pierce. But the Bill drafted by Mr. Sumner, and adopted by his Committee, after having been prepared with the utmost care, was presented to the Senate, and explained and enforced by Mr. Sumner in an able speech. It embraced ten sections, the first of which provided that An office should be created in the Treasury Department, to be called the Bureau of Freedmen, and meaning thereby such persons as have become free since the beginning of the present war. From this most effective and beauti
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Twelfth: his character and fame. (search)
and Humanity everywhere with new hope. The dawn of a better day was approaching; its first gray lines were fretting the east; the lark was singing at heaven's gate; and the Dove of Peace was on its flight, with the olive-branch in her mouth, to all the nations. Senator Sumner's will. Mr. Francis V. Balch, the executor of Senator Sumner's will, entered it for probate in Boston. It is written by the Senator's own hand: 1. I bequeath to Henry W. Longfellow, Francis V. Balch and Edward L. Pierce, as trustees, all my papers, manuscripts and letter-books, to do with them what they think best, with power to destroy them, to distribute them in some public library, or to make extracts from them for publication. 2. I bequeath to the trustees above mentioned $3,000, or so much as may be needed to complete the edition of my speeches and papers, should the same be unfinished at my death. It is hoped that no part of this sum will be needed. 3. I bequeath to the library of Harvard
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., VIII. (search)
and Humanity everywhere with new hope. The dawn of a better day was approaching; its first gray lines were fretting the east; the lark was singing at heaven's gate; and the Dove of Peace was on its flight, with the olive-branch in her mouth, to all the nations. Senator Sumner's will. Mr. Francis V. Balch, the executor of Senator Sumner's will, entered it for probate in Boston. It is written by the Senator's own hand: 1. I bequeath to Henry W. Longfellow, Francis V. Balch and Edward L. Pierce, as trustees, all my papers, manuscripts and letter-books, to do with them what they think best, with power to destroy them, to distribute them in some public library, or to make extracts from them for publication. 2. I bequeath to the trustees above mentioned $3,000, or so much as may be needed to complete the edition of my speeches and papers, should the same be unfinished at my death. It is hoped that no part of this sum will be needed. 3. I bequeath to the library of Harvard