Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 06 (of 20) — John Shaqi
Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 06 (of 20)Sumner, Charles
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Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 06 (of 20)
Sumner, Charles
Slavery -- United States; Speeches, addresses, etc., American
The barouche which contained Mr. Sumner was drawn by
magnificent horses. With Mr. Sumner was the Rev. Professor F.
D. Huntington, of Harvard University, and Dr. Perry, of this
city, Mr. Sumner’s physician. Among those in the succeeding
barouches were Messrs. Abbott and James Lawrence, George and
Isaac Livermore, Edwin P. Whipple, George R. Russell, Charles
G. Loring, J. Huntington Wolcott, Hon. E. C. Baker, President
of the Senate, Dr. Beck and Rev. Dr. Francis, of Cambridge,
Professor Lovering, and James Russell Lowell, the poet,--that
which followed Mr. Sumner’s barouche containing Professor
Longfellow, and George Sumner, the brother of the Senator.
As the carriage with Mr. Sumner touched the line between
Roxbury and Boston, there was a general cheer, which was
continued along far into the distance,--the Brigade Band
playing “Hail Columbia.” The first division of the cavalcade
wheeled to the left, and formed into an escort. The carriages
of Mr. Sumner and the Committee came next in succession, and
then the two remaining divisions fell into column.
A few rods north of the Roxbury line the cavalcade came to a
halt, when Mr. Sumner’s carriage was driven alongside of that
containing Hon. Josiah Quincy, and Hon. Alexander H. Rice,
mayor of Boston. After greetings between the parties, Professor
Huntington introduced Mr. Sumner to Mr. Quincy in the following
brief address.
“MR. QUINCY,--The Committee of Arrangements for welcoming
the Hon. Charles Sumner to his home present him here to
you, Sir, a venerated representative of the city of his
birth. He comes back from his public post, where he has
bravely advocated the cause of all freemen, to enjoy a
freeman’s privilege and discharge a freeman’s duty. He
comes, a cheerful and victorious sufferer, out of great
conflicts of humanity with oppression, of ideas with
ignorance, of scholarship and refinement with barbarian
vulgarity, of intellectual power with desperate and brutal
violence, of conscience with selfish expediency, of right
with wrong. Boston does well in coming out to greet him.
For that ample and lofty manhood, trained under her
education and consolidated in her climate, has added new
dignity to her old renown. It has joined her name more
inseparably than ever with the aspirations of Christian
liberty, and the honors of disinterested patriotism,
throughout the earth, and through all time.”
MR. QUINCY then addressed Mr. Sumner as follows.
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