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Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 1: (search)
ans for the gathering of a church. Remaining there until the town was destroyed by the Indians, he returned to Milton, where he died May 26, 1698. His son William, it is supposed, married Esther Puffer of Dorchester, Jan. 2, 1697, and had, inter alios, Seth, born Dec. 15, 1710; and married for his second wife Lydia Badcock in 1742. He was the father of thirteen children; among whom Job, the fifth son, born April 23, 1754, graduated at Harvard College in 1778, and became a major in the Massachusetts line of the army of the Revolution. He was a man of ability, sustained the reputation of an attentive and intelligent officer, and died from being poisoned by eating of a dolphin, Sept. 16, 1789; leaving a son Job, who was born at Milton Jan. 20, and baptized March 17, 1776. His name was subsequently changed to Charles Pinckney. He was educated at Harvard, and possessed considerable poetic ability. At his graduation he delivered a commencement-poem on Time, together with a valedictor
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 5: (search)
rom the lacerated, quivering flesh of the slave should soil the hem of the white garments of Massachusetts! He also introduced into this speech, as descriptive of a Northern man with Southern prithe iron bolts of the ship drawn out by the magnetic mountain of the Arabian story. Let Massachusetts continue to be known as foremost in the cause of freedom; and let none of her children yield that human anomaly,--a Northern man with Southern principles. Such a man is no true son of Massachusetts. This, says Mr. Henry Wilson in his invaluable History of the rise and fall of the slavempions of equal rights and human brotherhood will derive new strength from these exertions. Massachusetts, he said, must continue foremost in the cause of freedom; nor can her children yield to dall influence, He closed by expressing the hope that it might be hereafter among the praises of Massachusetts that on this occasion she knew so well how to say No! Mr. Sumner here stood boldly forth,
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 6: (search)
old man eloquent, who, as a true representative of the anti-slavery sentiment of the North, was fearlessly opposing the aggressions of the slaveholding power: Massachusetts has a venerable representative, whose aged bosom still glows with inextinguishable fires, like the central heats of the monarch mountain of the Andes beneath ir might or cotton will eventually prevail. Mr. Sumner was not for a moment idle. In January, 1847, he made a very able argument before the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, against the validity of enlistments in the regiment of volunteers raised by the State for the Mexican War. As counsel for one of the petitioners, he argued thfficering of the companies, was in some of the provisions unconstitutional, that the enlistments were not in accordance with that act, that the militia acts of Massachusetts had been fraudulently used in forming the regiment, and also that a minor could not be held by his contract of enlistment under the act. The validity of procee
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 7: (search)
Chapter 7: The Formation of the Free-soil party. defection of the Whig party. Mr. Sumner's speech announcing his Withdrawal from that party. aggressions of the slaveholding power. the duty of Massachusetts. the commanding question. Mr. Sumner's oration on the Law of human progress. Greek and Roman civilization. the power of the press. signs of progress. the course of the true reformer. his speech at Faneuil Hall on the New party. his leading ideas, freedom, truth, andt we can do. Our example shall be the source of triumph hereafter. It will not be the first time in history that the hosts of slavery have outnumbered the champions of freedom. But where is it written that slavery finally prevailed? Let Massachusetts, then, he says,--nurse of the men and principles which made our earliest revolution,--vow herself anew to her early faith. Let her elevate once more the torch which she first held aloft. Let us, if need be, pluck some fresh coals from the l
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 8: (search)
iful peroration. the Free-soil party. Convention at Worcester. address to the citizens of Massachusetts. argument in respect to colored schools. equality of all men before the Law. Daniel Webste liberty is, there is my party. A long and able address by Mr. Sumner to the citizens of Massachusetts on the Free-soil movement, was adopted by this convention, and widely circulated. Contrastiving precious encouragement to all the weary and heavy-laden wayfarers in this great cause. Massachusetts will then, through you, have a fresh title to regard, and be once more, as in times past, ansted receiver. Oh! it were well the tidings should spread throughout the land, that here in Massachusetts this accursed bill has found no servants. Sire, I have found in Bayonne honest citizens andn prey, he may employ his congenial blood-hounds, and exult in his successful game; but into Massachusetts he must not come. And yet, again I say, I counsel no violence. I would not touch his perso
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 9. (search)
to the Senate-chamber of the United States. But the sense of Massachusetts had been outraged by the recreant course of Mr. Webster; and ths one, it is true, as he will find when he gets to Washington. Massachusetts might have seated in the Senate a man far more objectionable thow accept the post as senator. I accept it as the servant of Massachusetts; mindful of the sentiments uttered by her successive legislatur friend and servant, Charles Sumner. Boston, May 14, 1851. Massachusetts had found her man, He had now arrived at that period which Dantinted. My appeal is to the people; and my hope is to create in Massachusetts such a public opinion as will render the law a dead-letter. Itthe credentials of Charles Sumner, a senator elect from the State of Massachusetts. The credentials having been read, William R. King of Alabt solemnly, and in loyalty to the constitution, as a senator of Massachusetts, I protest against this wrong. On slavery, as on every other s
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 10: (search)
Mr. Sumner as a Correspondent. his Letters. the Pacific Railroad. Secret Sessions of the Senate. his election to Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, 1853. his speech on Military Affairs. on the basis of Representation. on the Bill of ri see no reason why it should not be placed in charge of one bred to the business. Among the intelligent mechanics of Massachusetts, there are many fully fit to be at the head of the arsenal at Springfield; but all these by the existing law are austers of the State over the militia, on the 21st and 22d of June, he said, in opposition to conservative opinions,-- Massachusetts may proudly declare, that, in her own volunteer military companies, marshalled under her own local laws, there shall speaking so early for human rights, and now for more than threescore years and ten a household word to the people of Massachusetts, should be touched by the convention only with extreme care. An ardent admirer of the stern virtues, and of the h
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 11: (search)
on of the Fugitive-slave Bill. defence of Massachusetts. violent opposition. opinions of Messrs.ed to deepen the anti-slavery sentiment in Massachusetts; and a petition for the repeal of the Fugi dole is five dollars. In response for Massachusetts, he emphatically asserted, there arelution. In condemning them, in condemning Massachusetts, in condemning these remonstrants, you sim not entertained, because the senator from Massachusetts had and has the floor. Mr. Stuart. I mahat is not the question. The senator from Massachusetts has given notice that he would ask leave tin that city. His theme was The duties of Massachusetts at the present crisis; and with the skill edom, as in the olden time. It belongs to Massachusetts--nurse of the men and principles which madne; and the third is backbone. With these Massachusetts will be respected, and felt as a positive ing-men, and of the progressive spirit, of Massachusetts, took his seat in the United-States Senate[6 more...]
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 12: (search)
uglas. the Nebraska Bill a Swindle. defence of Massachusetts. the conclusion of the speech. the effect of tess and wickedness of the cheat. Of the State of Massachusetts he thus grandly speaks:-- God be praised! Massachusetts, honored Commonwealth that gives me the privilege to plead for Kansas on this floor, knows hern those who travel far to persecute her. Such is Massachusetts; and I am proud to believe that you may as well ecure it; and I know not how soon the efforts of Massachusetts will wear the crown of triumph. But it cannot brne whose names alone are national trophies,--is Massachusetts now vowed irrevocably to this work. What belonge must stand by him who is the representative of Massachusetts, under all circumstances. Peleg W. Chandler rem I denounce it in the name of the sovereignty of Massachusetts, which was stricken down by the blow; I denounce to assume the expense of his illness. Whatever Massachusetts can give, said he, let it all go to suffering Ka
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 13: (search)
as, Welcome, freedom's defender; Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God; Massachusetts loves, honors, will sustain and defend, her noble Sumner. At one point ihis manly assumption of all the responsibilities of honor. His encomium on Massachusetts was remarkable for its truth and beauty. My filial love does not claim tooet, the spindles of Lowell, or even the learned endowments of Cambridge, is Massachusetts thus; but because, seeking to extend everywhere within the sphere of her ine duties of life. In such obedience I hope to live, while, as a servant of Massachusetts, I avoid no labor, shrink from no exposure, and complain of no hardship. lly laboring on behalf of freedom in Kansas, he said, I cannot believe that Massachusetts will hesitate. Her people have already opened their hearts to Kansas; and In a letter, dated on board The Vanderbilt, May 22, 1858, to the people of Massachusetts, who deeply sympathized with him in his continued sufferings, he made this
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