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New England (United States) (search for this): chapter 261
e funeral train was threading the valleys of Massachusetts, the people of Boston had flocked to Faneuil Hall, that sacred shrine of Liberty, where the heart of New England was to pour out its last plaint of love and grief. The representative of the New York Herald—that everywhere present photographer of the age—thus describes theead. The ashes of the Statesman had at last found their congenial resting-place, by the side of those of his beloved mother. X. The following day was the New England Sabbath, and it dawned without a cloud. All things betokened the coming spring. In every sheltered place, said the Post, the grass was springing fresh and grel admirers than in the Senate chamber or among his political associates. It is a pleasant memory to carry in our hearts. Few of the ten thousand pulpits of New England but paid tributes to the virtues of the deceased Statesman. XI. It were vain to attempt any adequate description of the tokens of respect and sorrow whi
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 261
luded to his forthcoming volume on the Prophetic Voices Concerning America. But it seems the word he really used was his work, and that he to it, and I can only say, Massachusetts has lost a Senator, the United States has lost a statesman, the world has lost a philanthropist, and at storm, and in behalf of those five millions of people of the United States, I beg of you to give us a good man to take hold where he left Union; everywhere, Morse's lightning had made it a funeral-day in America. A hundred thousand flags drooped to his memory:— he was the thon the Army Register, or placed on the regimental colors of the United States, perhaps, said the speaker, the purest and most beautiful act ws during which Mr. Charles Sumner was among the foremost in the United States, we must admit that his career was such as to deserve the higheinet, the name of Sumner has been as famous in Europe as in the United States. In his own country the influence he exerted was always great,
North America (search for this): chapter 261
at utility of his life had been impaired through his failing health. He leaves, however, a record, not only as an example to the young, but to inspire those bent on carrying on the war against the political system which has bred such corruption, to a successful issue; a reputation unblemished in an atmosphere of intrigue; pure, where political purity is rare; ever surrounded by strong temptations, wielding, as he did, a power greater than has perhaps yet been wielded on the continent of North America. With that I close, rejoicing that, in the country which Mr. Sumner loved and the opinion of which he valued so highly, at least one tribute not unworthy of him has appeared. I should add that in the leading provincial journals, the articles I have seen are, on the whole, more just than those of London. But it was not from England that justice to the departed statesman was expected to come. By the enlightened and unprejudiced journalists of the continent of Europe—to which stra
Jefferson City (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 261
Sumner was essentially different from the most distinguished American statesmen who had gone before him. He was primarily a scholar, constrained by prophetic moral impulses into the field of politics. In encyclopediac knowledge none of our statesmen are to be compared with him, unless it may have been John Quincy Adams. In philosophical tendencies he somewhat resembled Jefferson, while he revealed an earnestness, breadth and fervor in his humane sympathies which were as much superior to Jefferson's as his eloquence was greater. He was not a great debater, on account, partly, of the scholastic character of his mind, and because he had a peculiar conception of the sphere of a Senator. He once said: A seat here in the Senate is a lofty pulpit with a mighty sounding-board, and the whole wide-spread people is the congregation. Whenever he arose, therefore, to speak, it was not merely to discuss the legislative question in hand and to address the little circle of Senators around him;
America City (Kansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 261
ectitude, and through devotion to the cause of the oppressed and down-trodden. The Cincinnati Times— He goes to his grave with a character unsullied by a political career of thirty years, and carrying the gratitude of a nation, and the worship of a race freed from bondage, and elevated to the rights of citizenship. The Indianapolis Journal— Had he been free from faults he would have been either more or less than human; but, taking him for all in all, it cannot be denied that America has lost one of her greatest men. The Indianapolis Sentinel— When the proper time comes, and the story is adequately told, Charles Sumner will stand as the type of the noblest American of his generation—a Washington in purity, a Luther in fervor, a Cromwell in persistence and greatness of soul—a man beyond the loftiest ideal of public virtue. The Detroit Free Press— He belonged to that class of statesmen who were governed in their action by their ideas of what was just
Montgomery (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 261
he Mayor were four men who bore a massive cross nine feet in height, composed of calla lilies, camellias, lilies of the valley, violets and other exotics. At the base, in a bed of white violets, were the words: A tribute from his native city and home. Impressive ceremonies were held. After the response from the choir, at the close of the special invocation— Almighty and ever-living God, we fly to Thee as our eternal refuge; we rest ourselves upon Thee, the Rock of ages, etc.—they sang Montgomery's hymn, Servant of God, well done. The benediction followed, and the services closed with the playing of the funeral march of Mendelssohn as the assemblage moved slowly from the church. Of the grand procession to Mount Auburn, the Daily Globe said: The absence of any great military or civic display would have impressed an intelligent foreigner as a strange thing in a funeral ceremony of a great public character. What there was of these, however, was eminently appropriate for the ob
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 261
t the house was filled with mourners. The Massachusetts delegation, with their families, assembledal deputation, which embraced nearly every Massachusetts member, welcomed Messrs. A. A. Low, S. B. funeral train was threading the valleys of Massachusetts, the people of Boston had flocked to Faneot feel able to do it, and I can only say, Massachusetts has lost a Senator, the United States has heart they would not have done it. I knew Massachusetts was brave, and wanted to show to the worldg them that it should ever be cherished by Massachusetts as among its most precious treasures. Theand feet of the trembling man. So, if ever Massachusetts remands to his master a slave who has sougty. He is cut off from that. But the State of Massachusetts shall carve his name so deep that no hhis honor and glory in all the hereafter. Massachusetts and the vote of censure regarding the measpon him the censure of his own State. For Massachusetts also, this fact will not be without instru[9 more...]
Saint Marks (Kansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 261
or the Senate, they wanted me to speak in Faneuil Hall, and at last they persuaded me to. It was at the time of the Fugitive Slave excitement in Boston, and while I was speaking I remembered that picture. So I said to the audience: There is in Venice a picture of a slave brought before the judge to be remanded to his owner. On the one side are the soldiers who have brought him there, on the other the men from whom he has fled. Just as the judge is about to give him back to their tyranny, St. Mark appears from the heavens and strikes off the fetters from the hands and feet of the trembling man. So, if ever Massachusetts remands to his master a slave who has sought protection in her borders, I pray God that the holy angels may themselves appear and strike the fetters from his hands and feet. The next time I went to Venice, in rummaging around the print-shops, I found this picture, and was told that it was either a very old copy, or possibly the original sketch from which Tintoretto
Greenwood (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 261
nd he spared nothing that stood in his way. And though his unswerving fidelity brought him to death's door, he lived–as few of the world's heroes have—to see his complete triumph, and to feel in his heart, we have no doubt, the sweet consciousness that mankind would never willingly let his memory die. But amongst all the floral offerings which deck his sylvan grave, one at least shall be laid there by the gentle hand of woman:—and whose fingers could better weave the chaplet than Grace Greenwood's? With the memory of my great friend (can it be that he is already only a memory?) come certain further off, pale and uncertain presences—the friends who were about him when I knew him first—Hawthorne, with his noble, sensitive face, his deep-set, furtive, melancholy eyes; Starr King, radiant with genius and princely in his perfect humanity; that beautiful wife of his poet-friend, she whose sweet, sad voice was prophetic of her martyr-like fate; that scholarly brother, so like him
Kings Chapel (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 261
following may be given as a nearly literal translation: Humanity and Justice Mourn and will mourn Thee, O Sumner, most renowned Fosterer of Justice! Justice, on account of thy most pure life Among the base; Humanity, in that she never was a stranger to Thee. Thou rejoicest in the end of labors and the beginning of Immortality. O Happy, Blessed, and Fortunate One, In such a Death that none like Thee remains. Rising to Glory, Hail! Viii. At half-past 2, the procession moved to King's Chapel. On entering, preceding the Mayor were four men who bore a massive cross nine feet in height, composed of calla lilies, camellias, lilies of the valley, violets and other exotics. At the base, in a bed of white violets, were the words: A tribute from his native city and home. Impressive ceremonies were held. After the response from the choir, at the close of the special invocation— Almighty and ever-living God, we fly to Thee as our eternal refuge; we rest ourselves upon Thee, the
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