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., page 459

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Section first : Parentage and education.

Section second : European Travels and studies.

Section third : professional life.

Section Fifth : Senatorial career.

Section Sixth : the interval of illness and repose.

Viii: first assumption.

Section Eighth : the war of the Rebellion .

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[459] speech. It embraced ten sections, the first of which provided that ‘An office should be created in the Treasury Department, to be called the Bureau of Freedmen, and meaning thereby such persons as have become free since the beginning of the present war.’

From this most effective and beautiful speech I cannot resist the temptation of extracting a few passages. He opened thus:

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