Chapter 9.
- Mr. Sumner's election to the United-States Senate. -- he makes no Pledges. -- the turning vote. -- opinion of the press. -- letter to Mr. Wilson. -- letter of Mr. Whittier. -- Mr. Sumner's Acceptance of his office. -- Description of his person. -- Letters to Theodore Parker. -- entrance to the Senate. -- his Rooms and Company. -- the Ordeal before him. -- his speech on Kossuth. -- on the Iowa Railroad Bill. -- letter to Theodore Parker. -- cheap ocean Postage. -- a memorial of the Society of friends. -- remarks thereon. -- Tribute to Robert Rantoul, jun. -- speech on the Fugitive-slave Bill. -- his course defined. -- the freedom of speech. -- slavery sectional, freedom national. -- the spirit of our literature against slavery. -- review of the argument. -- a beautiful peroration.
Oh great design,
Ye sons of mercy! Oh! complete your work;
Wrench from Oppression's hand the iron rod,
And bid the cruel feel the wounds they give.
Man knows no master save creating Heaven,
Or those whom choice and common good ordains.
Liberty, by James Thomson.
By a famous coalition of the Free-soil and Democratic parties, effected mainly through the agency of Henry Wilson in the legislature, 1851, Mr. Sumner was elected, over Robert C.Hear him, ye senates! Hear this truth sublime,--
He who allows oppression shares the crime.
Botanic Garden, by Erasmus Darwin.
