Changes

'''Charles Sumner''' (1811–1874) was a [[Republican party|Republican]] U.S. Senator from Massachusetts who sought to end slavery; he was the Senate leader of the [[Radical Republican]] faction during the [[American Civil War]] and [[Reconstruction]], where he fought to suppress Confederate nationalism and sought to promote the equality of the Freedmen (the freed slaves).  A founder of the [[Republican Party]], Sumner served Massachusetts in the U.S. Senate for 23 years. He broke with President [[Ulysses Grant]] in 1871 and supported the [[Liberal Republican Party]] in 1872; Grant retaliated by having the Senate strip away his powerful chairmanship of the Foreign Relations Committee.

'''Charles Sumner''' (1811–1874) was a [[Republican party|Republican]] U.S. Senator from Massachusetts who sought to end slavery; he was the Senate leader of the [[Radical Republican]] faction during the [[American Civil War]] and [[Reconstruction]], where he fought to suppress Confederate nationalism and sought to promote the equality of the Freedmen (the freed slaves).  A founder of the [[Republican Party]], Sumner served Massachusetts in the U.S. Senate for 23 years. He broke with President [[Ulysses Grant]] in 1871 and supported the [[Liberal Republican Party]] in 1872; Grant retaliated by having the Senate strip away his powerful chairmanship of the Foreign Relations Committee.

His strident stand against slavery and insulting language drove Congressman [[Preston 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<ref>http://www.impeach-andrewjohnson.com/11BiographiesKeyIndividuals/CharlesSumner.htm</ref>. Sumner did not recover for three more years, when he retook his seat on the Senate<ref>http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASsumner.htm</ref>. The beating is the subject of a famous political cartoon by [[John Magee]] subtitled: ''Southern Chivalry: Argument vs Clubs?''

His strident stand against slavery and insulting language drove Congressman [[Preston 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.<ref>http://www.impeach-andrewjohnson.com/11BiographiesKeyIndividuals/CharlesSumner.htm</ref> Sumner did not recover for three more years, when he retook his seat on the Senate.<ref>http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASsumner.htm</ref>  The beating is the subject of a famous political cartoon by [[John Magee]] subtitled: ''Southern Chivalry: Argument vs Clubs?''

Sumner once declared: <ref>http://www.amerisearch.net/index.php?date=2004-03-11&view=View</ref>

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. ...

: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. ...

[[Category:American Civil War]]

[[Category:American Civil War]]

[[Category:Reconstruction]]

[[Category:Reconstruction]]

[[Category:diplomacy]]

[[Category:Diplomacy]]

[[Category:slavery]]

[[Category:Slavery]]

[[Category:Abolitionists]]

[[Category:Abolitionists]]

[[category:Jacksonian Democracy]]

[[Category:Jacksonian Democracy]]

[[Category:Massachusetts]]

[[Category:Massachusetts]]

[[Category:Republican Party]]

[[Category:Republican Party]]