Mr. Sumner an instance of Free State High Culture--The "Brahmin Caste" of New England--The Sumner Ancestry; a Kentish Family --Governor Increase Sumner; His Revolutionary Patriotism--His Stately Presence; "A Governor that can Walk"--Charles Sumner's Father--Mr. Sumner's Education, Legal and Literary Studies --Tendency to Ideal Perfection--Sumner and the Whigs-- Abolitionism Social Death--Sumner's Opposition to the Mexican War--His Peace Principles--Sumner Opposes Slavery Within the Constitution, as Garrison Outside of it--Anti-Slavery and the Whigs--The Political Abolitionist Platform--Webster asked in vain to Oppose Slavery--Sumner's Rebuke of Winthrop-- Joins the Free Soil Party--Succeeds Webster in the Senate-- Great Speech against the Fugitive Slave Law--The Constitution a Charter of Liberty--Slavery not in the Constitution-- First Speech after the Brooks Assault--Consistency as to Reconstruction. 214 CHAPTER V.--SALMON P. CHASE. England and our Finances in the War--President Wheelock and Mr. Chase's Seven Uncles--His Uncle the Bishop--His Sense of Justice at College--His Uncle the Senator--Admitted to the Bar for Cincinnati--His First Argument before a U. S. Court--Society in Cincinnati--The Ohio Abolitionists-- Cincinnati on Slavery--The Church admits Slavery to be "an Evil"--Mr. Chase and the Birney Mob--The Case of the Slave Girl Matilda--How Mr. Chase "Ruined Himself"--He Affirms the Sectionality of Slavery--The Van Zandt Case--Extracts from Mr. Chase's Argument--Mr. Chase in Anti-Slavery Politics--His Qualifications as a Financier. 241 CHAPTER VI.--HENRY WILSON. Lincoln, Chase and Wilson as Illustrations of Democracy--Wilson's Birth and Boyhood--Reads over One Thousand Books in Ten Years --Learns Shoemaking--Earns an Education Twice Over--Forms a Debating Society--Makes Sixty Speeches for Harrison--Enters into Political Life on the Working-Men's Side--Helps to form the Free Soil Party--Chosen United States Senator over Edward Everett--Aristocratic Politics in those Days--Wilson and the Slaveholding Senators--The Character of his Speaking--Full of Facts and Practical Sense--His Usefulness as Chairman of the Military Committee--His "History of the Anti-Slavery Measures in Congress"--The 37th and 38th Congresses--The Summary of Anti-Slavery Legislation from that Book--Other Abolitionist Forces--Contrast of Sentiments of Slavery and of Freedom-- Recognition of Hayti and Liberia; Specimen of the Debate--Slave and Free Doctrine on Education--Equality in Washington Street Cars--Pro-Slavery Good Taste--Solon's Ideal of Democracy Reached in America. 269 CHAPTER VII.--HORACE GREELEY.