Chapter IV: �charles Sumner

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