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Henry A. Anthony (search for this): chapter 19
the members of Congress, the Judiciary, foreign legations, and a large concourse of reverent citizens, the Congressional chaplains--the Rev. Drs. Butler and Sunderland — appropriately performed the solemn services. At the close of the benediction, the president of the Senate, rising, said, The funeral services having ended, the Senate of the United States intrusts the remains of Charles Sumner to the sergeant-at-arms and the committee The Congressional Committee consisted of Messrs. Henry A. Anthony of Rhode Island, Carl Schurz of Missouri, Aaron A. Sargent of California, John P. Stockton of New Jersey, Richard J. Oglesby of Illinois, and Thomas C. McCreery of Kentucky, on the part of the Senate; and Messrs. Stephen A. Hurlbut of Illinois, Eugene Hale of Maine, Charles Foster of Ohio, Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina, Charles Clayton of California, Henry J. Scudder of New York, Samuel J. Randall of Pennsylvania, Joseph B. Beck of Kentucky, and John Hancock of Texas, on the pa
1830 AD (search for this): chapter 19
cortege, in which there was a body of more than one thousand colored citizens, proceeded, through a dense crowd of reverent people, to Mount-Auburn Cemetery. It arrived, just as the sun was setting, at the open grave in the Sumner lot, on Arethusa Path, which winds along the declivity, a little to the westward of the tower. The avenues, the knolls, and hills were crowded with hushed and pensive people. Near the grave stood the Congressional delegation, the surviving members of the class of 1830, H. W. Longfellow, R. W. Emerson, O. W. Holmes, and other intimate friends of the deceased. The Horatian ode, Integer vitoe scelerisque purus, was then sung by fifty male voices, accompanied by trombones; and, at the close, the clergyman pronounced the solemn words, I heard a voice saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: yea, saith the Spirit, that they rest from their labors; and their works do follow them. As the body, in the last beam of fading
March 10th (search for this): chapter 19
Versailles, and the facade of the Louvre. These last three things, said Mr. Sumner to a friend, are perfect. When I come home from the senate tired and cross, I like to look at them: it comforts me to think there is something perfect and above criticism. Of his rarest literary treasures was an illuminated prayer-book of Margaret of Anjou, which cost three hundred dollars. The desk in which he was struck in the Senate was not the least interesting of his curiosities. On Tuesday, the 10th of March, Mr. Sumner in his seat in the Senate complained to Mr. Ferry of painful shocks in his left side: they soon subsided; and in the evening he had as guests at his table two of his intimate friends,--Henry L. Pierce and B. Perley Poore. After the retirement of these gentlemen, he was again attacked with terrible pains in the heart. He was soon, however, somewhat relieved by his physician, Dr. J. T. Johnson, and passed a comparatively comfortable night; but in the morning he was cold and a
March 11th, 1874 AD (search for this): chapter 19
e Hoar, and said, Don't forget my Civil-rights Bill. Observing Mr. Hooper near him, he exclaimed, My book! My book is not finished. Later in the day he moaned, I am so tired! I am so tired! and, when Judge Hoar brought him a message from Mr. Emerson, he said, Tell Emerson I love him and revere him. Yes, I will tell him, replied the judge; for he says you have the largest heart of any man alive. The judge soon afterward took his hand; and at ten minutes before three o'clock, P. M., March 11, 1874, Charles Sumner ceased to breathe. The news spread instantaneously over the nation; and millions were in tears. No death since that of Abraham Lincoln had so touched the hearts of the American people. Congress had already adjourned. On Friday, March 13, it assembled to pay tribute of profound respect to the departed senator. The obsequies were simple but impressive. The body of Mr. Sumner, embalmed and enclosed in a massive casket, on which had been placed a wreath of white azale
March 13th (search for this): chapter 19
said, Tell Emerson I love him and revere him. Yes, I will tell him, replied the judge; for he says you have the largest heart of any man alive. The judge soon afterward took his hand; and at ten minutes before three o'clock, P. M., March 11, 1874, Charles Sumner ceased to breathe. The news spread instantaneously over the nation; and millions were in tears. No death since that of Abraham Lincoln had so touched the hearts of the American people. Congress had already adjourned. On Friday, March 13, it assembled to pay tribute of profound respect to the departed senator. The obsequies were simple but impressive. The body of Mr. Sumner, embalmed and enclosed in a massive casket, on which had been placed a wreath of white azaleas and lilies, and a branch of palm-leaves, was lying in the south parlor of his house; and the features presented an appearance of dignity and repose. It was borne thence, in a hearse drawn by four white horses, followed by a body of about, three hundred c
December 25th (search for this): chapter 19
arm-hearted, and intimate friend of Mr. Sumner. In the course of his address, he with moving pathos said,-- I can go back to the time when I sat under the eagle in this hall, and when I saw some one stand on the platform; and I did wish, when I heard certain expressions, that I could sink. I can go back to my boyhood, when I have seen other boys in their sports and plays, and I would walk off in the woods, and say, O God! Why was I born? I can remember forty-five years ago on a Christmas Day passing through the orchard, and saw a silk-worm hanging to the leaf of a tree, when my eyes turned up to my God, and I said, Why am I here? There hangs something out in the cold; but it will be a butterfly. I took it home, hung it in the room, put it where it was warm; and it hatched out before the atmosphere was prepared to receive it. I lifted the window; and it flew off, but had to return, as it could not stand the atmosphere. And just so I was brought forth by the eloquence of Ch
1867 AD (search for this): chapter 19
ittier. He had intense sympathy for moral principles. He was raised up to do the work preceding and following the war. His eulogy will be, a lover of his country, an advocate of universal liberty, and the most eloquent and high-minded of all the statesmen of that period in which America made the transition from slavery to liberty.--Henry Ward Beecher. Mr. Sumner's house at Washington, a hand — some structure with a facade of brown freestone, was built on an eligible site subsequent to 1867, and overlooks Lafayette Square. It adjoins The late residence of Charles Sumner, Washington, D. C. the Arlington Hotel; and the entrance is near the centre of the broad front. The sitting-room is on the right of the hall, which contains an old Dutch clock with a beautiful chime. The parlor, upholstered with yellow satin, is on the left, and above this Mr. Sumner's sleeping-room, which commands a fine view of Lafayette Square and the White House. Contiguous to this room is the library,
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