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C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Eighth: the war of the Rebellion. (search)
trouble. In his Autobiography, volume I, page 190, Lieut.-Gen. Scott left these imperishable words: It had been proposed, without due reflection, by one of our gallant commanders engaged in the suppression of the existing Rebellion, to place on the banners of his victorious troops, the names of their battles. The proposition was rebuked by the Resolution submitted by the Hon. Mr. Sumner, which was noble, and from the right quarter. Xxxvi. On the 12th of May, and again on the 28th of June, Mr. Sumner attempted in vain to get a Resolution passed providing that In all judicial proceedings to confiscate the property and free the slaves of Rebels, there shall be no exclusion of any witnesses on account of color. He had already made two efforts against the exclusion of witnesses under this pretext. But this statesman, although ever vigilant, was ever patent in hope. He knew, as well as any old prophet of Judea forecast the future, that the day of absolute emancipation for a
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Xxxvi. (search)
Xxxvi. On the 12th of May, and again on the 28th of June, Mr. Sumner attempted in vain to get a Resolution passed providing that In all judicial proceedings to confiscate the property and free the slaves of Rebels, there shall be no exclusion of any witnesses on account of color. He had already made two efforts against the exclusion of witnesses under this pretext. But this statesman, although ever vigilant, was ever patent in hope. He knew, as well as any old prophet of Judea forecast the future, that the day of absolute emancipation for a whole race was sure to dawn; and so on, through the shadows, as the light came streaming in, he beckoned every ray, as a harbinger from the east, announcing the approach of the sun. In reply to the question, What will be the end of all this? from a Senator whose heart was only half with us at this time, I addressed the following reply—which Mr. Sumner so warmly approved of. I will reproduce it here. How is it to end? As all the ot
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. (search)
se of all kinds. The Commission on Freedmen, appointed by the Secretary of War, in their report had already said: For a time we need a Freedmen's Bureau; not because these people are negroes only,—because they are men who have been for generations despoiled of their rights. This Commission has already recommended the establishment of such a Bureau. It was a long, hard fight. It encountered at every step, whenever it came up, bitter opposition. It finally passed the Senate, on the 28th of June; but it had a still harder struggle to go through in the House, where it did not pass until the 9th of February of the following year, and then only by a majority of two. It had the ordeal of another struggle in the Senate, when it at last passed that body without a division, and on the same day, March 3d, was approved by the President, and the Freedmen's Bureau was established. For whatever abuses may afterwards have crept into the administration of the system it was no more to blame,
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Iv. (search)
se of all kinds. The Commission on Freedmen, appointed by the Secretary of War, in their report had already said: For a time we need a Freedmen's Bureau; not because these people are negroes only,—because they are men who have been for generations despoiled of their rights. This Commission has already recommended the establishment of such a Bureau. It was a long, hard fight. It encountered at every step, whenever it came up, bitter opposition. It finally passed the Senate, on the 28th of June; but it had a still harder struggle to go through in the House, where it did not pass until the 9th of February of the following year, and then only by a majority of two. It had the ordeal of another struggle in the Senate, when it at last passed that body without a division, and on the same day, March 3d, was approved by the President, and the Freedmen's Bureau was established. For whatever abuses may afterwards have crept into the administration of the system it was no more to blame,