Source: Charles Sumner, Speech of the Honorable Charles Sumner of Massachusetts on the Cession of Russian America to the United States (Washington: Printed at the Congressional Globe office, 1867), 11–16, available
Source: Charles Sumner, “The One Man Power vs. Congress!” Address of the Honorable Charles Sumner at the Music Hall, Boston, October 2, 1866 (Boston: Wright & Potter, State Printers, 1866).
In the universe of God there are no accidents. From the fall of a sparrow to the fall of an empire or the sweep of a planet, all is
Dear Mr Bright, I have yr good & most suggestive letter. I concur in it substantially. A practical difficulty is this; can Emancipation be carried out without using the lands
