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

[264] of human rights. “It will reach every corner of the land,” wrote Salmon P. Chase: “ ‘cogens omnes ante thronum.’ ‘C’ est presqu'un discours antique, ‘ said a French gentleman to me last Saturday. I say, ’ C ‘est bien plus.’ ”

“It did me good,” wrote Carl Schurz, “to hear again the true ring of the moral anti-slavery sentiment.” “I do not know,” wrote the Rev. Nathaniel Hall, “in our day a nobler instance of moral bravery.” “It is the best arranged and by far the most complete exposure of the horrid rite of slavery,” wrote John Bigelow from New York, “to be found within the same compass in any language, so far as known.”

“I take pleasure in saying,” said Horace White, in a letter written from Chicago, “that in my opinion your recent effort ranks with Demosthenes on the Crown, and with Burke on Warren Hastings.” “Your speech,” wrote A. A. Sargent (now senator from California) to Mr. Sumner, “stirred my heart with feelings of pride for the representative of my native State.”

It was greatly feared by the friends of Mr. Sumner that personal violence would again be offered him; and, indeed, the attempt was made.

On the eighth day of June, a stranger called on him in the evening, stating that he had come to hold him