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C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Eighth: the war of the Rebellion. (search)
ry government in Europe. Those who sneered at it as a pompous brutum fulmen, forgot that slavery never was restored, where it had, by supreme authority, once been proclaimed abolished. Liberty takes no such steps backward. Slavery had been abolished by proclamation in San Domingo; it was the attempt to reinstate it, that whelmed that island in blood. Anywhere else, it would have the same effect. Lord Russell ridiculed it because it was levelled only at Slavery over territory beyond Mr. Lincoln's control, while all the States and Districts held by Federal armies were exempt. This would be a very flimsy objection, if it were true; but it was not. His Lordship forgot that the Proclamation was purely a war measure. Humane and sublime as the results were to be, it was not done as an act of humanity. Its sole immediate object was—like that of any other war measure—to weaken the enemies of the country, and strengthen its friends. In this light the measure was adopted for, and inte
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., LXV. (search)
ry government in Europe. Those who sneered at it as a pompous brutum fulmen, forgot that slavery never was restored, where it had, by supreme authority, once been proclaimed abolished. Liberty takes no such steps backward. Slavery had been abolished by proclamation in San Domingo; it was the attempt to reinstate it, that whelmed that island in blood. Anywhere else, it would have the same effect. Lord Russell ridiculed it because it was levelled only at Slavery over territory beyond Mr. Lincoln's control, while all the States and Districts held by Federal armies were exempt. This would be a very flimsy objection, if it were true; but it was not. His Lordship forgot that the Proclamation was purely a war measure. Humane and sublime as the results were to be, it was not done as an act of humanity. Its sole immediate object was—like that of any other war measure—to weaken the enemies of the country, and strengthen its friends. In this light the measure was adopted for, and inte
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Ninth: Emancipation of the African race. (search)
roclamation of Emancipation I addressed the following Letter of Counsel to colored men, which met the warm approval of Mr. Lincoln and Senator Sumner. It may not be wholly inappropriate now. Kind words to Africano-Americans. Washington, Jan. 1se the Union; and when we found that slavery would destroy the republic unless slavery should be wiped out itself, then Mr. Lincoln declared freedom to all the slaves of all the enemies of the Union. Now it has come to this, that this great war iseasure which made Slavery forever impossible in the Republic of the United States. Xv. Those who knew and loved Mr. Lincoln as many of us did, were more disposed to sympathize with him in the deep sadness which weighed down his spirit, than ts from our first hundred years, page 596, may illustrate the subject: The Dark in the White House.—Feb. 22, 1862.—Willie Lincoln is dead! Everybody in Washington knew Willie; and everybody was sad. Sad,—for it seemed hard for the lovely boy to b<
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Iv. (search)
e to record the fact that this Bureau was, what Mr. Sumner had first declared it to be, the Bridge to Freedom. After the Proclamation of Emancipation I addressed the following Letter of Counsel to colored men, which met the warm approval of Mr. Lincoln and Senator Sumner. It may not be wholly inappropriate now. Kind words to Africano-Americans. Washington, Jan. 1st, 1863. fellow-men:—The day you have waited for so long has at last come. You are all free now,--or you soon will be. begun by the slave-holders to destroy the Union, extend slavery, and open the slave-trade. The North went into it to preserve the Union; and when we found that slavery would destroy the republic unless slavery should be wiped out itself, then Mr. Lincoln declared freedom to all the slaves of all the enemies of the Union. Now it has come to this, that this great war is between slavery and freedom. It has become a war for you. Now you can come into the fight, and take the field, and help wor
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Xv. (search)
Xv. Those who knew and loved Mr. Lincoln as many of us did, were more disposed to sympathize with him in the deep sadness which weighed down his spirit, than to criticise his occasional facetious remarks, in which, on his account chiefly, we were so glad to hear him indulge The following extracts from our first hundred years, page 596, may illustrate the subject: The Dark in the White House.—Feb. 22, 1862.—Willie Lincoln is dead! Everybody in Washington knew Willie; and everybody wasWillie Lincoln is dead! Everybody in Washington knew Willie; and everybody was sad. Sad,—for it seemed hard for the lovely boy to be taken away so early, while the sun was just gilding the mountain up which he was pressing, and from which he could look down the sweet valley, and see so far into the future! Sad for her who held him as one of the jewels of her home-coronet; dearer than all the insignia of this world's rank. That coronet was broken, now. Its fragments might dazzle, and grace still; but it could never be the same coronet again. Sad for the master of the Ex<