Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Charles SumnerU.S. Government Printing Office, 1874 - 112 σελίδες |
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ADDRESS advocate American April 27 associates bitter Bless career catafalque cause character CHARLES SUMNER civil civil-rights bill colored committee Commonwealth Commonwealth of Massachusetts Constitution convictions courage Daniel Webster dead death of CHARLES debate deceased Declaration of Independence devo devotion distinguished duty earnest earth efforts eloquence eminent equal escutcheon eulogy faith fame forlorn hope free-soil party freedmen freedom friends friendship funeral gave Government grand grave heart honor House human illustrious justice King's Chapel labors learning liberty lived mankind memory moral mourning nation nature never noble numbers occasion opinions oppressed orator party peace philanthropist political President PRESIDENT pro tempore principles public service race remains Representatives Republic resolutions respect reverence Senate Chamber senatorial sentiment silence slave slavery sorrow speak Speaker spirit statesman stood strife SUNDERLAND sympathy Thee Thou hast thought tion to-day tribute truth United utterances victory voice words
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Σελίδα 105 - 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 64 - 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 66 - ... more and better than all that, one also in feeling and in heart? Am I mistaken in this? Do the concealments of which I speak still cover animosities which neither time nor reflection, nor the march of events have yet sufficed to subdue? I cannot believe it. Since I have been here, I have watched with anxious scrutiny your sentiments as expressed, not merely in public debate, but in the abandon of personal confidence. I know well the sentiments of these, my Southern...
Σελίδα 65 - Charles Sumner in life believed that all occasion for strife and distrust between the North and South had passed away, and 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 37 - 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 59 - 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 - ... words and acts of suspicion and distrust. Would that the spirit of the illustrious dead whom we lament to-day could speak from the grave to both parties to this deplorable discord in tones which would reach each and every heart throughout this broad territory: "My countrymen, know one another and you will love one another.
Σελίδα 6 - Resolved, That invitations be extended to the President of the United States and the members of his Cabinet, the Chief Justice and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, the Diplomatic Corps (through the Secretary of State), the...
Σελίδα 65 - ... 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 community of language and literature and traditions and country; but more,...
Σελίδα 61 - 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...