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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 34: the compromise of 1850.—Mr. Webster. (search)
like his former self—for he was by nature and early habit inclined to religious thought—when, with an air of lofty contempt, he assailed the belief that human laws are to be tested, and their obligations finally determined, by the supreme moral law. Webster's Works, vol. II. p. 582; vol. VI. p. 578. He said at Capon Springs, Va., June, 1850 (Curtis's Life of Webster, vol. II. p. 516): And when nothing else will answer, they invoke religion and speak of a higher law. Gentlemen, this North Mountain is high; the Blue Ridge higher still; the Alleghany higher than either; and yet this higher law ranges farther than an eagle's flight above the highest peaks of the Alleghany [laughter]. No common vision can discern it; no conscience not transcendental and ecstatic can feel it; the hearing of common men never listens to its high behests. Here, as on other points, there was a bitterness and even coarseness in his language altogether uncongenial with the repose which was his when he spoke