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

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Chapter 6:

• Mr. Sumner's Eulogy on Mr. Justice Story.
-- his Tribute to the memory of John Pickering. -- oration before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard University. -- reference to Dr. Channing. -- eloquent Extract from the oration. -- Mr. Sumner's method of meeting the slave power. -- his Compliment to John Q. Adams. -- his Apostrophe to Daniel Webster. -- his letter to R. C. Winthrop. -- his Distrust of the Whig party. -- argument on the Validity of Enlistments. -- speech on the war, in Faneuil Hall. -- “White slavery in the Barbary States.” -- his interest in Prison Discipline, -- oration on “fame and glory.” -- Extract from the same. -- speech in the Whig Convention at Springfield.

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Et magis, magisque viri nunc gloria claret.

Rest not! life is sweeping by:
Go and dare before you die.
Something mighty and sublime
Leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe.

In the autumn of this year (1845), Mr. Sumner was called to mourn the loss by death of his beloved friend and counsellor, Chief Justice Story, whom Lord Campbell characterized in the House of Lords as “the first of living writers on the law.” In “The Boston daily Advertiser,” Sept. 16, 1845, there appeared from Mr. Sumner's hand a most eloquent and discriminating eulogy of this great