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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)
d and rotten lion. Events, too, under Providence, are our masters. For the Rebels there can be no success. For them, every road leads to disaster. For them, defeat is bad, but victory worse; for then will the North be inspired to sublimer energy. The proposal of Emancipation which shook ancient Athens followed close upon the disaster at Chaeronea; and the statesman who moved it vindicated himself by saying that it proceeded not from him, but from Chaeronea. The triumph of Hannibal at Cannae drove the Roman Republic to the enlistment and enfranchisement of eight thousand slaves. Such is history, which we are now repeating. The recent Act of Congress, giving freedom to slaves employed against us, familiarly known as the Confiscation Act, passed the Senate on the morning after the disaster at Manassas. Xv. This bill, which passed the Senate on the 22d of July, and was voted for by every Republican, declared: That whenever any person, claiming to be entitled to the ser
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Xiv. (search)
irst instance in history where God has turned the wickedness of man into a blessing; nor will the example of Samson stand alone, when he gathered honey from the carcass of the dead and rotten lion. Events, too, under Providence, are our masters. For the Rebels there can be no success. For them, every road leads to disaster. For them, defeat is bad, but victory worse; for then will the North be inspired to sublimer energy. The proposal of Emancipation which shook ancient Athens followed close upon the disaster at Chaeronea; and the statesman who moved it vindicated himself by saying that it proceeded not from him, but from Chaeronea. The triumph of Hannibal at Cannae drove the Roman Republic to the enlistment and enfranchisement of eight thousand slaves. Such is history, which we are now repeating. The recent Act of Congress, giving freedom to slaves employed against us, familiarly known as the Confiscation Act, passed the Senate on the morning after the disaster at Manassas.