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C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Fourth : orations and political speeches. (search)
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Ix. (search)
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Xix. (search)
Xix.
In the Senate, Mr. Sumner was to appear in the list as a Free-Soiler.
There were but two others who claimed that distinction—Salmon P. Chase, from Ohio, and John P. Hale, from New Hampshire.
These were but the morning-stars of the great day of emancipation that was so soon to dawn upon a redeemed country, and a disenthralled race.
In his letter to the Legislature of the State, accepting the honor of Senatorship, he speaks of the appointment finding him in a private station, and he accepts the office with a grateful consciousness of personal independence; as an honor that had come to him unsought and undesired.
I accept it, he continued, as the servant of Massachusetts, mindful of the sentiments solemnly uttered by her successive Legislatures, of the genius which inspires her history, and of the men,—her perpetual pride and ornament,—who breathed into her that breath of liberty which early made her an exampie to her sister States.
With me, the union is twice blessed—
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Fifth : Senatorial career. (search)
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Xxiii. (search)
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Xxxv. (search)
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On the 6th of April, 1853, Mr. Chase, of Ohio, introduced a resolution against secrecy in the proceedings of the Senate, which Mr. Sumner supported in a brief speech, in which he used the following language:
In the Constitution there is no injunction of secrecy on any of the proceedings of the Senate; nor is there any requirement of publicity.
To the Senate is left absolutely the determination of its rules of proceedings.
In thus abstaining from all regulation of this matter the framers of the Constitution have obviously regarded it as in all respects within the discretion of the Senate, to be exercised from time to time as it thinks best.
The Senate exercises three important functions: first, the legislative or parliamentary power, wherein it acts concurrently with the House of Representatives, as well as the President; secondly, the power to advise and consent to treaties with foreign countries in concurrence with the President; and, thirdly, the power to advise
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Xl. (search)
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Eighth : the war of the Rebellion . (search)
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Lxiv. (search)
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Eleventh : his death, and public honors to his memory. (search)