“Like all of Mr. Sumner’s speeches, this speech was carefully written out and largely memorized. He was deficient in the qualities of the great debater, was not able usually and easily to think quickly and effectively on his feet, to… — Archibald Henry Grimke Copy Share Image
“He was at last untrammelled by constitutional conditions and limitations, was free to carry the War into Africa. “Carthago est delenda” was thenceforth ever… — Archibald Henry Grimke Copy Share Image
“Rebellion with him cancelled the slave covenants of the Constitution and discharged the North from their further observance.” — Archibald Henry Grimke Copy Share Image
“These great men had no reciprocal appreciation the one for the other. Sumner was honest in the belief that Grant knew nothing but war,… — Archibald Henry Grimke Copy Share Image
“But the freedom won by the men of 1776 was incomplete without the freedom for which the men of 1833 were striving.” — Archibald Henry Grimke Copy Share Image
“Like all of Mr. Sumner’s speeches, this speech was carefully written out and largely memorized. He was deficient in the qualities of the great… — Archibald Henry Grimke Copy Share Image
“Sumner’s entrance into the Senate was into the midst of a hostile camp. On either side of the chamber enemies confronted him. Southern Whigs… — Archibald Henry Grimke Copy Share Image
“He was Anglo-Saxon enough, Puritan and student of history enough to be sensible of the efficacy of blood and iron, at times, in the… — Archibald Henry Grimke Copy Share Image
“He must needs stand erect, inflexible, uncompromising, an image of Puritan intolerance and Puritan grandeur. Against his granite-like character and convictions the insolence of… — Archibald Henry Grimke Copy Share Image
