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 |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-5 von 30
Seite iv
... thought , and it was in this , his chief work , that his distinguished qualities of mind and heart are most conspicuous . He was a statesman in no narrow sense ; he was not a man of but one idea ; he was at home in all the business of ...
... thought , and it was in this , his chief work , that his distinguished qualities of mind and heart are most conspicuous . He was a statesman in no narrow sense ; he was not a man of but one idea ; he was at home in all the business of ...
Seite 33
... thought it wrong to en- courage laziness . A worker himself , he was ready to help others work in a good cause ; but farther he would not go . In after years he had little patience with shirks and shams . He was genuine , and he honored ...
... thought it wrong to en- courage laziness . A worker himself , he was ready to help others work in a good cause ; but farther he would not go . In after years he had little patience with shirks and shams . He was genuine , and he honored ...
Seite 36
... thought , and subtile ingenuity , which gave great promise of future usefulness . In 1832 Mr. Sumner met the first great sorrow of his life . The sister , whose being was almost one with his own , who had been his playmate 36 LIFE OF ...
... thought , and subtile ingenuity , which gave great promise of future usefulness . In 1832 Mr. Sumner met the first great sorrow of his life . The sister , whose being was almost one with his own , who had been his playmate 36 LIFE OF ...
Seite 73
... thought to beard the Northern lion in his very den . He request- ed the Hon . Harrison Gray Otis , " the wealthy and aristocratic Mayor of Boston , " to suppress The Liberator . The mayor had had probably never heard of , certainly ...
... thought to beard the Northern lion in his very den . He request- ed the Hon . Harrison Gray Otis , " the wealthy and aristocratic Mayor of Boston , " to suppress The Liberator . The mayor had had probably never heard of , certainly ...
Seite 86
... thought of linking himself with the abolitionists . His only ambition was eminence in his profession or as a statesman . That sight of savage brutality suddenly changed the whole purpose and current of his life . From that time he ...
... thought of linking himself with the abolitionists . His only ambition was eminence in his profession or as a statesman . That sight of savage brutality suddenly changed the whole purpose and current of his life . From that time he ...
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.