Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 09 (of 20)Sumner, Charles
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Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 09 (of 20)
Sumner, Charles
Slavery -- United States; Speeches, addresses, etc., American
The adverse spirit showed itself at a large public meeting in
New York, July 1st, which was entitled by the _Herald_, “The
Anti-Abolition and Anti-Secession Movement.--Disunion the Fruit
of Abolition.” Here Hon. William Duer, of Oswego, seemed to
become the mouthpiece of the excited multitude.
“No emancipation and turning loose upon them hordes
of uncivilized and ignorant Africans.… No tyrant in
history has ever made his name execrated by measures more
despicable than such as those proposed by the Abolitionists
for the humiliation and destruction of the South. The
Southern people have been deluded by their leaders in the
same way as the Northern people, and, in his opinion,
the next man who walked up the scaffold after Jefferson
Davis should be Charles Sumner. [_Loud and long-continued
applause, mingled with hooting and groans for Sumner. Some
person in the meeting attempted to say a word in his favor,
but his voice was quickly drowned in loud shouts of ‘Put
him out!’_]”
This is from the _Herald_. The same incident is thus reported
in the _Tribune_.
“And if we came to hanging every traitor in this country
in the order of their guilt, the next man who marched
upon the scaffold after Jefferson Davis would be Charles
Sumner. [_Loud applause, the greatest of the evening thus
far. Groans for Sumner. Great excitement. Cries of ‘Put him
out!’ Cries, ‘Where is Horace Greeley?’_]”
A correspondent of a Boston paper, taking up the strain, echoed
it for the benefit of Massachusetts.
“There are now two war-cries in New York, and the great
Union mastiff is as ready to pounce upon one of the brutes
as upon the other. If there are two parties outside of the
doomed radicals, they are those, the most violent of them,
who would hang Jeff. Davis and Sumner together, and those
who would hang Davis first and Sumner afterwards.
“If Sumner is reëlected to the Senate, he may not find it
convenient to pass through this city. That his name is
odious, infamous, is not all,--it is cursed and abominable.
The blood of thousands sacrificed to his ambition and
personal revenge cries to Heaven against him, and if a
Massachusetts Legislature can still support him by its
vote, those who do so will deserve to lose their children
at the altar of this Moloch.”
The _New York Herald_ followed with a leader, July 16th,
entitled, “Senators Wade and Sumner,” which, after announcing
that the terms of these Senators would expire on the 4th of
March next, made the following appeal.
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