Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career.

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Chapter 11:

• The persistent course of Mr. Sumner.
-- petition of the citizens of Boston. -- condemnation of the Fugitive-slave Bill. -- defence of Massachusetts. -- violent opposition. -- opinions of Messrs. Chase, Giddings, Andrew, and Channing. -- a Tribute from Whittier. -- a Specimen of senatorial Tactics. -- anti-slavery sentiment extending. -- Formation of the Republican party. -- Mr. Sumner's Reception and speech at Worcester. -- tyranny of the slave-power. -- backbone needed. -- the American Merchant. -- Mr. Wilson enters the United-States Senate. -- the position and out-look. -- Mr. Sumner's plan of Emancipation. -- speech in New York May 9, 1855. -- spread of anti-slavery sentiment. -- his Views of slave-hunting. -- the American party. -- all men equal in respect to the Law. -- our Indebtedness to Foreigners.

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Where is charity? Where is the love of God? Where is the zeal for his glory? Where is desire for his service? Where is human pity, and the compassion of man for man? Certainly, to redeem a captive, to liberate him from wretched slavery, is the highest work of charity, of all that can be done in this world. --Topografia y Historia de Argel por Fra Haedo.

And 'tis for this we live,--
     To smite the oppressor with the words of power;
To bid the tyrant give
     Back to his brother Heaven's allotted hour.

William Howitt.

Moved by a lofty purpose,--the redemption of the slave,--sustained by the rectitude of his intentions, and by the generous sympathies of many advocates of freedom both in