Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Charles Sumner, (a Senator of Massachusetts,): Delivered in the Senate and House of Representatives, Forty-third Congress, First Session, April 27, 1874, with Other Congressional Tributes of Respect. Pub. by Order of CongressU.S. Government Printing Office, 1874 - 112 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 67 - CHARLES SUMNER in life believed that all occasion for strife and distrust between the North and South had passed away, and that there no longer remained any cause for continued estrangement between these two sections of our common country. Are there not many of us who believe the same thing ? Is not that the common sentiment, or if it is not ought it not to be, of the great mass of our people North and South...
Σελίδα 107 - When it is present, men take example at it; and when it is gone, they desire it: it weareth a crown, and triumpheth for ever, having gotten the victory, striving for undefiled rewards.
Σελίδα 68 - The South — prostrate, exhausted, drained of her life-blood as well as of her material resources, yet still honorable and true — accepts the bitter award of the bloody arbitrament without reservation, resolutely determined to abide the result with chivalrous fidelity; yet, as if struck dumb by the magnitude of her reverses, she suffers on in silence. The North, exultant...
Σελίδα 66 - Southern courage, but of the heroism, fortitude, and courage of Americans in a war of ideas; a war in which each section signalized its consecration to the principles, as each understood them, of American liberty and of the constitution received from their fathers.
Σελίδα 39 - These perturbations, this perpetual jar Of earthly wants and aspirations high, Come from the influence of an unseen star, An undiscovered planet in our sky. And as the moon from some dark gate of cloud Throws o'er the sea a floating bridge of light, Across whose trembling planks our fancies crowd Into the realm of mystery and night, — So from the world of spirits there descends i A bridge of light, connecting it with this, O'er whose unsteady floor, that sways and bends, Wander our thoughts above...
Σελίδα 64 - ... men whose lot it was to be born to the system which he denounced. It has been the kindness of the sympathy which in these later years he has displayed toward the impoverished and suffering people of the Southern States that has unveiled to me the generous and tender heart which beat beneath the bosom of the zealot, and has forced me to yield him the tribute of my respect — I might even say of my admiration. Nor in the manifestation of this has there been anything which a proud and sensitive...
Σελίδα 61 - The peace of all the faithful, The calm of all the blest, Inviolate, unvaried, Divinest, sweetest, best. Yes, peace ! for war is needless, — Yes, calm ! for storm is past, — A.nd goal from finished labor, And anchorage at last. That peace — but who may claim it ? The guileless in their way, Who keep the ranks of battle, Who mean the thing they say...
Σελίδα 66 - And respecting, as all true and brave men must respect, the martial spirit with which the men of the North vindicated the integrity of the Union and their devotion to the principles of human freedom, they do not ask, they do not wish, the North to strike the mementoes of her heroism and victory from either records or monuments or battle-flags.
Σελίδα 67 - ... endeavor to grow toward each other once more in heart, as we are already indissolubly linked to each other in fortunes? Shall we not, over the honored remains of this great champion of human liberty, this feeling sympathizer with human sorrow, this earnest pleader for the exercise of human tenderness and charity, lay aside the concealments which serve only to perpetuate misunderstandings and distrust, and frankly confess that on both sides we most earnestly desire to be one; one not merely in...
Σελίδα 63 - Charles Sumner was born with an instinctive love of freedom, and was educated from his earliest infancy to the belief that freedom is the natural and indefeasible right of every intelligent being having the outward form of man. In him, in fact, this creed seems to have been something more than a doctrine imbibed from teachers, or a result of education. To him it was a grand intuitive truth inscribed in blazing letters upon the tablet of his inner consciousness, to deny which would have been for him...