Excerpt from Charles Sumner
Time has dealt very differently with the leading characters in the great drama of the nineteenth century. At the end of the war, in the opinion of the best informed and most judicial historian of the period, Abraham Lincoln and Charles Sumner were "the two most influential men in public life." On the very day of his death, the President intimated that the thwarting of his reconstruction policy had been due to Sumner"s opposition.
To-day Lincoln"s name is a household word; his memory is revered hardly less in the South than in the North; the new generation understands and appreciates him far better than did the men among whom his work was done. But Sumner"s figure has been crowded into the background. Ask intelligent men of affairs born since 1860 for an account of his character and career, and few will recall more than that he was an anti-slavery orator, whose assault by Brooks in the Senate chamber greatly intensified the bitterness between North and South. What manner of impress Sumner is making upon yet younger America was tested a few months ago in the examination of applicants for admission to a Massachusetts college. Not one in ten of those boys in the commonwealth which Summer any intelligent knowledge of the man.
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