Life of Charles Sumner. by Jeremiah Chaplin and J. D. Chaplin. With An Introduction by Hon. William Claflin.Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library, 1874 - 524 Seiten |
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... speeches have been incorporated in the biography . His addresses are an integral part of the history of the times in which he lived , and they largely reveal his character . A full survey of Mr. Sumner's public career has not been ...
... speeches have been incorporated in the biography . His addresses are an integral part of the history of the times in which he lived , and they largely reveal his character . A full survey of Mr. Sumner's public career has not been ...
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... speech showed the depth of his moral convictions , and his determination to leave nothing undone to free the land from the blight- ing curse of slavery . Thenceforth there was no cessation of hostility to him and his measures on the ...
... speech showed the depth of his moral convictions , and his determination to leave nothing undone to free the land from the blight- ing curse of slavery . Thenceforth there was no cessation of hostility to him and his measures on the ...
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... speeches . of future years are graced . To these pursuits , which were foreign to his class studies , he devoted the early hours of morning , pilfering no time from the requirements of the appointed course for studies more con- genial ...
... speeches . of future years are graced . To these pursuits , which were foreign to his class studies , he devoted the early hours of morning , pilfering no time from the requirements of the appointed course for studies more con- genial ...
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... speeches , and plans , and argu- ments , called forth by this shocking event . ernor Floyd asserted that the plans for treason , insurrection , and murder had been designed and matured by unrestrained and designing fanatics in the ...
... speeches , and plans , and argu- ments , called forth by this shocking event . ernor Floyd asserted that the plans for treason , insurrection , and murder had been designed and matured by unrestrained and designing fanatics in the ...
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... speech was put under the ban . Slavery must not be mentioned in sermons and orations , except in terms of commendation or extenuation . The press was muzzled . Public prayers for those who were in bonds was treason against the ...
... speech was put under the ban . Slavery must not be mentioned in sermons and orations , except in terms of commendation or extenuation . The press was muzzled . Public prayers for those who were in bonds was treason against the ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
abolitionists Abraham Lincoln American anti-slavery asked assailed blessing Boston called cause character Charles Francis Adams Charles Pinckney Charles Sumner Christian citizen civil colored committee Congress Constitution Court dear death declared duty earnest election Ellen Crafts eloquent emancipation England Faneuil Hall favor feeling foreign Free Soil Free Soil party Fugitive Slave Act Fugitive Slave Bill gentleman hand heard heart honor House human Judge justice Kansas knew labor land legislature letter liberty Lincoln Massachusetts ment mind never noble North once oration passed patriot peace political President principles question rebel rebellion replied Republican resolution Senate sentiment Seward slave power slaveholders slavery South Southern speak speech spirit spoke sympathy Territory Theodore Parker thought tion took triumph true truth Union United voice vote Washington Wendell Phillips Whig party William Claflin words wrong wrote young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 237 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Seite 220 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not.
Seite 305 - Two Voices are there ; one is of the Sea, One of the Mountains ; each a mighty Voice : In both from age to age Thou didst rejoice, They were thy chosen Music, Liberty...
Seite 159 - I will drain him dry as hay: Sleep shall, neither night nor day, Hang upon his pent-house lid ; He shall live a man forbid :* Weary sev'n-nights, nine times nine, , Shall he dwindle, peak, and pine :* Though his bark cannot be lost, Yet it shall be tempest-toss'd.
Seite 219 - All this ? Ay, more. Fret till your proud heart break ; Go show your slaves how choleric you are, And make your bondmen tremble.
Seite 115 - There's a fount about to stream, There's a light about to beam, There's a warmth about to glow, There's a flower about to blow; There's a midnight blackness changing Into gray ; Men of thought and men of action, Clear the way...
Seite 20 - tis the soul of peace ; Of all the virtues 'tis nearest kin to heaven ; It makes men look like gods. The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer, A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit, The first true gentleman that ever breath'd.
Seite 237 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Seite 68 - During my recent tour for the purpose of exciting the minds of the people by a series of discourses on the subject of slavery, every place that I visited gave fresh evidence of the fact that a greater revolution in public sentiment was to be effected in the free States — and particularly in New England — than at the South.
Seite 70 - ... precipitancy of my measures. The charge is not true. On this question, my influence, humble as it is, is felt at this moment to a considerable extent, and shall be felt in coming years— not perniciously, but beneficially— not as a curse, but as a blessing; and POSTERITY WILL BEAR TESTIMONY THAT I WAS RIGHT. I desire to thank God, that he enables me to disregard 'the fear of man which bringeth a snare' and to speak his truth in its simplicity and power.