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| + | 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. | ||
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| + | Sumner once declared: <ref>http://www.amerisearch.net/index.php?date=2004-03-11&view=View</ref> | ||
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| + | :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. ... | ||
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| + | :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. | ||
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| + | == References == | ||
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Revision as of 14:46, March 11, 2007
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: [1]
- 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.