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C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Fifth: Senatorial career. (search)
r form which they may assume to settle legal rights. Now, since the claim for a fugitive is not a suit in Equity or Admiralty, but a suit to settle what are called legal rights, it must, of course, be a suit at common law. Thirdly. In the case of Lee v. Lee (8 Peters, 44), on a question whether the value in controversy was one thousand dollars and upwards, it was objected that the appellants, who were petitioners for Freedom, were not of the value of one thousand dollars. But the Court said: TLee (8 Peters, 44), on a question whether the value in controversy was one thousand dollars and upwards, it was objected that the appellants, who were petitioners for Freedom, were not of the value of one thousand dollars. But the Court said: The matter in dispute is the Freedom of the petitioners. This is not susceptible of pecuniary valuation. No doubt is entertained of the jurisdiction of the Court. Of course, then, since liberty is above price, the claim to any fugitive always and necessarily presumes that the value in controversy exceeds twenty dollars. By these successive steps, sustained by decisions of the highest tribunal, it appears, as in a diagram, that the right of Trial by Jury is secured to the fugitive from service
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Xvi. (search)
r form which they may assume to settle legal rights. Now, since the claim for a fugitive is not a suit in Equity or Admiralty, but a suit to settle what are called legal rights, it must, of course, be a suit at common law. Thirdly. In the case of Lee v. Lee (8 Peters, 44), on a question whether the value in controversy was one thousand dollars and upwards, it was objected that the appellants, who were petitioners for Freedom, were not of the value of one thousand dollars. But the Court said: TLee (8 Peters, 44), on a question whether the value in controversy was one thousand dollars and upwards, it was objected that the appellants, who were petitioners for Freedom, were not of the value of one thousand dollars. But the Court said: The matter in dispute is the Freedom of the petitioners. This is not susceptible of pecuniary valuation. No doubt is entertained of the jurisdiction of the Court. Of course, then, since liberty is above price, the claim to any fugitive always and necessarily presumes that the value in controversy exceeds twenty dollars. By these successive steps, sustained by decisions of the highest tribunal, it appears, as in a diagram, that the right of Trial by Jury is secured to the fugitive from service
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section tenth: downfall of the Rebellion. (search)
Section tenth: downfall of the Rebellion. Gen. Lee's parting with his soldiers Lincoln's visit to Richmond Lincoln's Assassination Sumner's eulogy of Lincoln Anti-Slavery measures of Congress what Slavery had been how Slavery died fate I. Mr. Greeley has given, towards the close of his American Conflict, an affecting description of the parting of Lee with his devoted followers. He says: It was a sad one. Of the proud army which, dating its victories from Bull Run,Anna, at Cold Harbor, and before Petersburg and Richmond,--a mere wreck remained. It is said that 27,000 were included in Lee's capitulation; but of these not more than 10,000 had been able to carry their arms thus far on their hopeless and almost ed Richmond, there was a rush which packed the street, and a shout of welcome that rang through the city. On the day of Lee's surrender he returned to Washington, and the next evening he addressed the vast multitude assembled before the Executive
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., I. (search)
I. Mr. Greeley has given, towards the close of his American Conflict, an affecting description of the parting of Lee with his devoted followers. He says: It was a sad one. Of the proud army which, dating its victories from Bull Run, had driven McClellan from before Richmond, and withstood his best efforts at Antietam, and shattered Burnside's host at Fredericksburg, and worsted Hooker at Chancellorsville, and fought Meade so stoutly, though unsuccessfully, before Gettysburg, and baffled Grant's bounteous resources and desperate efforts in the Wilderness, at Spottsylvania, on the North Anna, at Cold Harbor, and before Petersburg and Richmond,--a mere wreck remained. It is said that 27,000 were included in Lee's capitulation; but of these not more than 10,000 had been able to carry their arms thus far on their hopeless and almost foodless flight. Barely nineteen miles from Richmond when surrendered, the physical possibility of forcing their way thither, even at the cost o
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Ii. (search)
Ii. The day after the fall of Richmond, Mr. Lincoln visited the Capital of the late Confederacy, so recently and suddenly abandoned by its fugitive chief. Being recognized by the Black population as he entered Richmond, there was a rush which packed the street, and a shout of welcome that rang through the city. On the day of Lee's surrender he returned to Washington, and the next evening he addressed the vast multitude assembled before the Executive Mansion. In a speech characterized by two qualities so peculiar to himself; turning over to Congress the settlement of all difficulties connected with the representation of the revolted States, and expressing his desire that some participation in government, through right of suffrage, might be accorded to that vast Colored population, who had so recently come out from the house of bondage:—but, above all, without a trace of bitterness or resentment towards the late enemies of the Republic, he expressed an anxious wish that those