Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 07 (of 20)Sumner, Charles
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Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 07 (of 20)
Sumner, Charles
Slavery -- United States; Speeches, addresses, etc., American
[165] “Totidem esse hostes, quot servos.” A saying of Cato the elder.
(Seneca, Epist. XLVII.). Archdeacon Paley, the lucid moralist, in a
speech at Carlisle, February 9, 1792, on the Slave-Trade, announced,
as “a principle inherent in every man, ‘that a slave watches his
opportunity to get free.’” Works, (Boston and Newport, 1810-12,) Vol.
V. p. 498.
[166] History, Book I. ch. 101; Book VII. ch. 27; Book VIII. ch. 40.
[167] Ibid., Book IV. ch. 80.
[168] The Clouds, 5-7.
[169] The Laws, Book VI. ch. 5.
[170] Ibid., ch. 19.
[171] Rebellion Record, Vol. II., Diary, p. 33.
[172] Letter of Attorney-General Bates: McPherson’s Political History
of the United States during the Great Rebellion, p. 235, note; also
Appleton’s Annual Cyclopædia, 1861, art. SLAVES, p. 642. This
letter is not found in the Opinions of the Attorneys-General.
[173] Rebellion Record, Vol. II., Documents, pp. 437, 438.
[174] Rebellion Record, Vol. II., Documents, p. 493.
[175] Appleton’s Annual Cyclopædia, 1861, art. SLAVES, p. 643.
The Secretary spoke at a “clam-bake.”
[176] Rebellion Record, Vol. III., Documents, p. 36.
[177] On the Frogs, 190.
[178] Plutarch, Decem Oratorum Vitæ: Hyperides. See also Demosthenes,
Contra Aristogitonem II. pp. 803, 804; Allgemeine Encyklopädie
von Ersch und Gruber, art. HYPERIDES; Smith’s Dictionary
of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, Vol. I. p. 985, art.
DEMOSTHENES.
[179] From a MS. note-book; but the reference is accidentally omitted.
[180] History of Rome, Vol. II. p. 300.
[181] Art. CAIUS MARIUS.
[182] History of Rome, ed. Schmitz, Vol. I. (forming the fourth volume
of the entire History) p. 400.
[183] From the French of Amiot, Cambridge, 1676, p. 367.
[184] Life of Tiberius Gracchus, tr. Langhorne.
[185] History of Rome, ed. Schmitz, Vol. I. p. 326.
[186] Suetonius, Julius Cæsar, c. XLII.
[187] Merivale, History of the Romans under the Empire, Vol. I. p. 52.
[188] Life of Caius Marius, tr. Langhorne.
[189] Ibid., from the French of Amiot, Cambridge, 1676, p. 368.
[190] Ibid., tr. Langhorne.
[191] Life of Sertorius, tr. Langhorne.
[192] Ibid.
[193] “Out of which materials he made up a legion.”--_Decline of the
Roman Republic_, Vol. II. Chap. XVIII. p. 239.
[194] Mr. Charles C. Hazewell, in an elaborate article, brought his
rare acuteness and reading in reply to the critics. _Daily Evening
Traveller_, October 19, 1861.
[195] The _New York Herald_, in reproducing the letter, attributed it
to Prince Napoleon. In like spirit, Maurice Sand, son of George Sand,
who was in the suite of the Prince, in his _Six Mille Lieues à toute
Vapeur_, in the _Revue des Deux Mondes_, 1862, Jan.-Fév., p. 686.
[196] Lettres sur les États-Unis d’Amérique, par le Lieutenant-Colonel
Ferri-Pisani, Aide-de-Camp de S. A. I. Prince Napoléon, pp. 121, 122.
[197] Mr. Sumner insisted that the Union could be saved only through
Freedom.
[198] Strictly true, during the delivery of the speech.
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