The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-06-10


aid not know thar, enriched by your sympathy
my words telling the same tale, VIII seem TO your
generous hearts 10 prol0ng Tor o moment the re-
QUEEN that you would not willingly let die. Nor
think the threefold strain supernuous. How well
var,o,. atr eo,ogy.anese mtnglng voices o.
whose atns and efforts were universal: whom
neither city nor state, nor party nor ma
tion nor race bound with any local Limitation.
On lofty Hill over Hooking the lake OF Cayuea, III
New YORK, stands u noble tree IN the grounds OF
the Cornell University, under which an OXFORD
scholar, choosing America Tor has home because
America u the home OF liberty, has placed
seat upon which he has carved, "Above all ma
tions 10 humanity That Is the legend which
Charles Sumner carved upon his heart ana sought
TO write upon the hearts OF his fellow citizens and
or the world. When he returned from Europe he
was thought To have been too much fascinated by
England, aud throughout has lite II was sometimes
for that country. hut what Ii more natural TO au
American than love OF England Does not Haw-
Pilgrims came to plant q purer England, and their
children. the colonlsts, took up arms to MAINTAIN
trIer England; but an England siil. Tney became
nor their language, and their victory lett them the
advanced outpost OF English political progress
proudly maintain to-day, tnose to which summers
whole lie was devoted, are English traditions.
The great muniments OF individual liberty in every
degree descended to US from our fathers. The
commonwealth, justice as the political corner
habeas corpus, the trial by jury, freedom speech
and OF the press-tnese are English, and they are
ours. 40 not agree with the melancholy Fisher
x1AASS
Liberty, dwells only IN the English oak !" but
the most patriotic American may well remember
almost snrer and sturdler in England than
here, and may wisely repair 10 drink at those
ton has more .nngenced the thought OF bis coun-
try than John Stuart MILL and the rruest American
VIII hnd upon his heroic pages CLEANS OF iairer
and ampier America than ever IN vision even
samuel Adams saw. No, no. Plymouth Rock Was
but D stepping stone from one continent to
another IN the great march OF the same historic
development, and to-day, with electric touch, we
grasp the maud OF England under the sea that the
DER Dus throb a. the beating Of one common heart.
Is 1t strange, then, that the young lawyer whose
deepest instinct was love OF freedom. anu whose
youth had peeD devoted 70 the study or that no.
bic science whose highest purpose is to defend
individual right, alter long residence in the land
stone, or komily, well as OF Shakespeare nd
Bacon, Of Newton and Jeremy Taylor-a land
mnd, MS lmasinasion, whose history had snspirea
whose learning had armed him TO be ltberatOr or
the oppressed-shoud always have turned with
admiration TO the country .where," as her
laureate sngs-
Where freedom broadens slowly down
From precedent ~ PRECEDENT
Such were The general influences that moulded
the young sumner. BuG TO what situation in his
own country ue retnrned!--a situation neither
elegant circles which received MIN. The man
never lived VINO enjoyed more or Was more fitted
TO ENJOY the higher delights OF human society than
sumner, or who might nave seemed to those who
scanned his habits ana hls tastes SO little adapted
for the heroic part. Could the scope and progress
already begun have been foreseen and measured,
Charles sumner would PROBABLY have been
scholarly gentleman. who would recoi from the
conflict as Sir Thomas Browne Stunned the stern
tumulL Of the Great Rebellion.
DAYS OF TRIAL-NO COMPROMISE.
speaking OF the attempted slavery s'comprOmise''
and the apparent dlsInay Of Mr. Seward in his last
SAID Mr.. Sumner was one evening surprised by
visit Ia washington from large number OF the
had neen among his strongest and most positive
political opponents He welcomed them gravely,
seeing that their purpose was very serious, and
alter u lew moments the most distinguished mem.
Der OF the party made an mpasstoned appeal to the
Senator. "You know US all, he said. 'sas fellow
citizens OF yours who have ana most strongly
regretted aud opposed your political course. BUT
at tlIts awful moment, when tue country nangs
than cu
only VINO can avert the threatening calamity, one
man whom the North really trusts. and by whose
are that man. the North wlli listen to you and 10
no other and we are nero In the name OF humanity
an
ihss you would have me 40 - ave impiors YOU j.
a. q YET. tic v: dSaass sna sa
.'ssr. SAG Charles summer. rising TO nis lofty
height and never more charles sumner tnan 10
fhtuk, peyond az otheTA 10 u because the NORTH
x1Sws snas Under no circumstances whatever
!, DC not. q course. forget that, compromise
WAS based upon it, oIe oa Saya
burke, '1s founded upon compromise and par.cr.
thing bought must Sear some proportion o I 70 the
purchase paid. None will barter away the Inn
osS q oa sr M
the perfect model OF . wise statesman in a Tree
community. that TO be useful he submitted to
pate" But 1t Is the instinct OF the highest states.
mansnip to know when the jewel or which Burke
cost ls shall not be sold John Pyin had il when
ne carried up to the Lords the impeachmeut or
strator4 John Adams had 1t wien ne lifted
the Continental Congress In his arms and
hurled It over the rrevocable line OF indepen-
dence. Charles Sumner had it when. at the close Of
his nrst great speech 10 the Senate ne exclaimed,
III the face OF slavery in Its highest seat, "By the
constitution which have sworn To support am
bound to disobey this act" Until that moment
1t truly feared. But now, amazed. Incredulous, APP
palled II ieI that II had met It's master. Here
resources infinitely richer. Here at last was the
North, the American conscience, the American
wilthe heir OF the traditions OF tue English Magma
Cnarta. ana. lar beyond them, Of the old Swiss
cantons ugh on the heaven.kssslng AEg-the spirit
Of ss,a 20
stayed.''
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
As TO his party leadership Mr.. Cnrtis observed
"And as the crisis In which Sumner nved re CURED
that in q leader the qualities or a lawyer should
be modified by those or the patrlOt and the moral
ist, 10 1t demanded That the party man should be
more than q partisan. He never forgot that
party Is means, not an end. He knew the Joy
and the power or association--no man better. He
knew the history Of parties every wherein Greece
and Rome, In England and France, and in our own
earlier day; anu he knew how insensibiy q party
comes to resemble an army and an army to stand
t0r the country and cause which it has DEFENDED.
But he knew above all that parties are Kept pure
and useiu only by the resoute independence
whom. from tneir lofty principle and un-
compromising qualities, parties do not care
10 nominate are the very leaders VINO make par
ties able to elect their Candidates. The republican
party was organized TO withstand slavery wnen
slavery dared ali. 1t needed, therefore, great
leader at least who was not merely q partisan,
who did not WORK Tor party ends, but Tor the ends
oil tine party. 1t needed man absorbed and
mastered by hostility 10 slavery; man or one
idea, ike Columbus. with his whole soul trembling
ever to the West. wearying courts anu
kings and councils with MS single In
cessant and lmportunate plea. until ne
ntinh hn mi