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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.  

'''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 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>.  

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. ...

:''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.''

: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.

He helped create the shortlived Liberal Republican Party <ref>http://www.impeach-andrewjohnson.com/11BiographiesKeyIndividuals/CharlesSumner.htm</ref><ref>http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Sumner-C.html</ref>

He helped create the shortlived Liberal Republican Party <ref>http://www.impeach-andrewjohnson.com/11BiographiesKeyIndividuals/CharlesSumner.htm</ref><ref>http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Sumner-C.html</ref>