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Webster (search for this): chapter 6
nspirations to eloquence higher than any you have yet confessed. To heavenly themes sublimer strains belong. Do not shrink from the task. With your marvellous powers, and the auspicious influences of an awakened public sentiment, under God, who always smiles upon conscientious labors for the welfare of man, we may hope for beneficent results. Assume, then, these unperformed duties. The aged shall bear witness to you; the young shall kindle with rapture as they repeat the name of Webster; and the large company of the ransomed shall teach their children's children, to the latest generation, to call you blessed; while all shall award to you yet another title, which shall never be forgotten on earth or in heaven,--Defender of Humanity; by the side of which that earlier title shall fade into insignificance, as the constitution, which is the work of mortal hands, dwindles by the side of man, who is created in the image of God. In a characteristic letter to Robert C. Winthrop
M. Sumner (search for this): chapter 6
anning. eloquent Extract from the oration. Mr. Sumner's method of meeting the slave power. his Coonstitution, that slavery may be reached. Mr. Sumner then paid this brief, but memorable complime to Robert C. Winthrop, dated Oct. 25, 1846, Mr. Sumner sharply criticises that gentleman's course ito sanction slavery. Through you, continues Mr. Sumner, they [the Bostonians] have been made to decnal candidate in opposition to Mr. Winthrop, Mr. Sumner said, It is with the Whigs that I have heret his blows against the peculiar institution, Mr. Sumner proudly stood. He clearly saw and openly res of golden light upon the thunder-cloud, so Mr. Sumner's tender sympathies relieved the gloomy scend a place in every library. While abroad, Mr. Sumner's attention was naturally drawn to the condin country. Of the various systems in vogue, Mr. Sumner deprecated that of the promiscuous commingliions. The next notable literary effort of Mr. Sumner was an address entitled Fame and glory, deli[10 more...]
John Milton (search for this): chapter 6
d are hers: But Error, wounded, writhes in pain, And dies among his worshippers. After passing in review the career of warriors, as Alexander, drunk with victory and wine; Caesar, trampling on the liberties of Rome; Frederick of Prussia, playing the game of robbery with human lives for dice,--he beautifully says, There is another and a higher company, who thought little of praise or power, but whose lives shine before men with those good works which truly glorify their authors. There is Milton, poor and blind, but bating not a jot of heart or hope; in an age of ignorance, the friend of education; in an age of servility and vice, the pure and uncontaminated friend of freedom, tuning his harp to those magnificent melodies which angels might stoop to hear, and confessing his supreme duties to humanity in words of simplicity and power. I am long since persuaded, was his declaration, that to say or do aught worth memory and imitation, no purpose or respect should sooner move us than l
Thibaut (search for this): chapter 6
times in the classical countries of jurisprudence,--France and Germany. I remember well the pointed and effective style of Dupin, on the delivery of one of his masterly opinions in the highest court of France; I recall the pleasant converse of Pardessus, to whom commercial and maritime law is under a larger debt, perhaps, than to any other mind, while he descanted on his favorite theme; I wander in fancy to the gentle presence of him with flowing silver locks, who was so dear to Germany,--Thibaut, the expounder of the Roman law, and the earnest and successful advocate of a just scheme for the reduction of the unwritten law to the certainty of a written text; from Heidelberg I fly to Berlin, where I listen to the grave lecture and mingle in the social circle of Savigny, so stately in person and peculiar in countenance, whom all the continent of Europe delights to honor: but my heart and my judgment, untrammelled, fondly turn to my Cambridge teacher and friend. Jurisprudence has many
William Lloyd Garrison (search for this): chapter 6
ter act; always confessing a loyalty to principles higher than any party ties. On this solid platform of conscience and of duty, dealing his blows against the peculiar institution, Mr. Sumner proudly stood. He clearly saw and openly rebuked the subservience of his party to the slaveocracy of the South; and though not then an aspirant for political power, he caught prophetic glimpses of a rupture in the Whig organization, and of the ultimate triumph of the right. With the uncompromising Garrison he had not yet come into sympathy; but within the constitution of the United States, he declared himself an eternal foe to slavery. His wing of the party soon received the title of Conscience Whigs; and conscience over might or cotton will eventually prevail. Mr. Sumner was not for a moment idle. In January, 1847, he made a very able argument before the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, against the validity of enlistments in the regiment of volunteers raised by the State for the Mexican
Bayard (search for this): chapter 6
type; Aid it, for the hour is ripe, And our earnest must not slacken Into play: Men of thought and men of action, Clear the way! The age of chivalry has gone. An age of humanity has come. The horse, whose importance, more than human, gave the name to that early period of gallantry and war, now yields his foremost place to man. In serving him, in promoting his elevation, in contributing to his welfare, in doing him good, there are fields of bloodless triumph nobler far than any in which Bayard or Da Guesclin ever conquered. Here are spaces of labor wide as the world, lofty as heaven. Let me say, then, in the benison once bestowed upon the youthful knight: Scholars, jurists, artists, philanthropists, heroes of a Christian age, companions of a celestial knighthood, Go forth; be brave, be loyal, and successful. In a letter to Mr. Sumner dated September, 1846, Theodore Parker says:-- I thank you most heartily for your noble and beautiful Phi Beta Kappa Address. It did me g
Pardessus (search for this): chapter 6
n the law. In The Boston daily Advertiser, Sept. 16, 1845, there appeared from Mr. Sumner's hand a most eloquent and discriminating eulogy of this great American jurist. In it he says, It has been my fortune to know or see the chief jurists of our times in the classical countries of jurisprudence,--France and Germany. I remember well the pointed and effective style of Dupin, on the delivery of one of his masterly opinions in the highest court of France; I recall the pleasant converse of Pardessus, to whom commercial and maritime law is under a larger debt, perhaps, than to any other mind, while he descanted on his favorite theme; I wander in fancy to the gentle presence of him with flowing silver locks, who was so dear to Germany,--Thibaut, the expounder of the Roman law, and the earnest and successful advocate of a just scheme for the reduction of the unwritten law to the certainty of a written text; from Heidelberg I fly to Berlin, where I listen to the grave lecture and mingle i
William Cullen Bryant (search for this): chapter 6
o secure the warm approval of the college and the public. As in his oration on The true grandeur of nations, so in this, he condemned the art and the atrocities of war, and breathed forth his aspirations for the reign of universal peace and brotherhood. His positions, founded on the eternal principles of good — will to man, of truth and justice, were in advance of time, and by some persons, deemed Utopian; but he was introduced into the world to be a leader, not a follower; and, as William Cullen Bryant nobly says,-- Truth crushed to earth shall rise again: The eternal years of God are hers: But Error, wounded, writhes in pain, And dies among his worshippers. After passing in review the career of warriors, as Alexander, drunk with victory and wine; Caesar, trampling on the liberties of Rome; Frederick of Prussia, playing the game of robbery with human lives for dice,--he beautifully says, There is another and a higher company, who thought little of praise or power, but whose
William Ellery Channing (search for this): chapter 6
s, and commemorates the names, of his illustrious friends, John Pickering, Joseph Story, Washington Allston, and William Ellery Channing, each of whom had but recently finished his career. This oration abounds with singular affluence of illustratiomory, but the long life, of the kindred spirit who has this day embalmed them all. In characterizing the eloquence of Channing, the orator unconsciously described himself: His eloquence had not the character and fashion of forensic efforts or parl, ascend above the present in place and time. Like Allston, regard fame only as the eternal shadow of excellence. Like Channing, bend in adoration of the right. Cultivate alike the wisdom of experience, and the wisdom of hope. Mindful of the futudid me good to read it. I like it, like it all, all over and all through. I like especially what you say of Allston and Channing. That sounds like the Christianity of the nineteenth century, the application of religion to life. You have said a str
Lavalette (search for this): chapter 6
fleetness of foot to escape. The enactments of human laws are vain to restrain the warm tides of the heart. We pause with rapture on those historic scenes in which freedom has been attempted or preserved through the magnanimous self-sacrifice of friendship or Christian aid. With palpitating bosom we follow the midnight flight of Mary of Scotland from the custody of her stern jailers; we accompany Grotius in his escape from prison in Holland, so adroitly promoted by his wife; we join with Lavalette in France in his flight, aided also by his wife; and we offer our admiration and gratitude to Huger and Bollman, who, unawed by the arbitrary ordinances of Austria, strove heroically, though vainly, to rescue Lafayette from the dungeons of Olmutz. This admirable production, every page of which proclaims the scholar and the friend of human liberty, was beautifully printed in 1853, by John P. Jewett and Company, in a volume with elegant illustrations by Edwin T. Billings, and should find
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