A Philosophical History of the Formation of the American Republic, From Its Beginning to the End of the Civil War
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This is the man who was to lead the Reijublic through the fiery furnace of war, and at last to receive the veneration of a grateful people, and the homage of kings and emperors. The aristocracy of the South had no love for such a man. He was not of their kind. His blows against slavery were felt; and no man had made ^^Charles Sumner was born in Boston, Mass., January 6 1811. Graduated at Harvard College and Cambridge Law School' Ad- mitted to the bar, 1831. Delivered his first great oration, on... the "True Grandeur of Nations," at Boston July 4, 1S45; and his first anti-slavery speech, 1S50. On the death of Judge Story of the Supreme Court of the United States, in 1845, was offered the vacant seat, but declined. In the winter of 1851 was elected to the Senate of the United States from Massachusetts, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Daniel Webster; retained that position until his death, March 11, 1874. Of Sumner, Senator George F. Hoar, himself a statesman of large ability, wrote in 1894: "If we judge him by the soundness of his principles, by the wisdom of his measures, bv his power to com- mand the support of the people, by the great public results he ac- complished, there is no statesman of his time to be named in the same breath with him.
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