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Line 1: − Charles Sumner (1811–1874) was an [[abolitionist]] U.S. Senator from Massachusetts who drove to eradicate slavery and who became a [[Radical Republican]] after the [[Civil War]]. A founder of the [[Republican Party]], Sumner served Massachusetts in the U.S. Senate for 23 years. − His strident stand against slavery and insulting language drove Congressman Preston S. Brooks of South Carolina to fly into a rage and violently beat Sumner with the head of his cane, as Sumner sat at his desk on the floor of the U.S. Senate. Sumner never fully recovered. − − Sumner once declared: <ref>http://www.amerisearch.net/index.php?date=2004-03-11&view=View</ref> − − :Familiarity with that great story of redemption, when God raised up the slave-born Moses to deliver His chosen people from bondage, and with that sublimer story where our Saviour died a cruel death that all men, without distinction of race, might be saved, makes slavery impossible. ... − − :There is no reason for renouncing Christianity, or for surrendering to the false religions; nor do I doubt that Christianity will yet prevail over the earth as the waters cover the sea. − − == References == − − <references/>
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