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Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 9. (search)
tle was before him,--hailstones and coals of fire; but well could he affirm,-- What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted? Thrice is he armed who hath his quarrel just; And he but naked, though locked up in steel, Whose conscience with unjustice is corrupted. Though unpractised in debate, he had studied his subject à profond: his integrity was unimpeachable, his armor closely welded, and his position the impregnable rock of truth. What, then, had he to fear? The arrest of Thomas Sims as a fugitive slave, in Boston, April 3 of this year, and his mock trial, with the decision of the court remanding him to slavery, threw the city into an intense excitement. On receiving Theodore Parker's Fast-Day sermon, which in no measured terms rebuked this outrage, Mr. Sumner addressed to him the following letter:-- Court Street, Boston, April 19, 1851. May you live a thousand years, always preaching the truth of Fast Day! That sermon is a noble effort. It stirred me to th