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

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