Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-03-11
General Amassa Walker, Major PORE anil

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of the previous representations, was not un-
expected. few minutes later chaplain sun
cerlaBd arrived. He left the Senator'S bedside
Fifteen minutes before and he was still alive,
though dying Five or ter minutes later S-r
geant at Arms French arrived, and report
that the Senator was living when he left al
residence.
THE SCENE IN TEE SENATE.
The Senate convened as usual at noon. there
being slim ATTENDANCE OF Senator's, and was
called to order by Mr.. Carpenter, president pro
fsR,- Chaplain Sunderland, in his prayer. WAS
much more earnest and i'm pressive than usnai.
and invoked the throne OF divine grace as fol-
lows:
30, Lord. our God. Thou hast made us
and brought us into beng, and not We our:
selves; and all our breath il in-Thy hand. The
light OF the morning sun falls upon the busy
scenes OF men. but there are dark shadows in
many dwellings. We miss soma of our numb IT
who arewithdrawn from their seats in this hall
and lie prostrate with sickness and disease
especially one who but yesterday came INTO this
chamber with all the presence OF his manly
form. But now, "a we meet again, he is lying
close to the edge OF the dark river. Oh who can
tell what day may bring forth? Be very near
10 the soul OF Thy servant this day. III IL were
possible, we would pray Thee to restore him;
but IL Thou hast otherwise appointed, We be-
seech Thee, support him by the hope OF Thy
people. and the glorious prospect of the coming
of the Resurrection and blessed Immortality,
through Jesus Christ. Amen"
Immediately after the chaplains prayer, the
r.
and at five minutes past noon dispatch was
received from Major POore saying that the
Senator was still alive. HE extremities, how
ever; were cold, and he WAS rapidly sinking.
SCENES ON THE HOUSE sIsB.
Certain no event since the days of the war
created as much excitement as did the startling
announcement this morning that Charles
sumner was dead. About half-past eleven the
news came, and from that time up to the begin
ming of the session the reports as to his death
ment was made positively that he had died at
ii 20 O'Clock, which was as positiveIy denied,
but IT was admitted that he was hopelessly i'll,
and that hts dissolution was but the question of
few minutes. Within the hall OF the House
members Eere gathered in groIps discussing
the sad n63s At II O'Clock. the Chaplain OF
the House, Rev. DIR. Butler, in his prayer asked
God to lift up the stricken servant and restore
him TO power and strength. This was accepted
AS positive evidence that he had not died up
that time. None of the Massachusetts delega-
ton except Messrs. Butler and Buff ngton were
in their seats, although all were in the House
ITior to converting, the others evidently having
fastened to the death bel of the Senator. A
dispatch was received in the House from the
reside nee of Mr.. Sumner at twenty minutes
past twelve o'clock stating that he was still
alive, but that his extremities were getting cold
and he could not live many minutes A ms
age was received at the Clerks desk in The
House at thirteen minutes of on. a. follows:
~ 40 ?: m Mr.. Sumner is sinking slowly.
but there is NO decided change"
"A ten minutes past two O'Clock a dsp itch
dated at the Treasury departm ent, addressed ID
Hon j. q. Blaine, was read in the II Juse,
follows.
There is no material change in MIR. sum
ner's condition. HIS physicians think him sink
rag. l think he will survive your session OF to-
day. f.. X. HoAR."
A Sketch Of Mr.. Summers Life.
MIR. Sumner was born in Boston January 6,
1871. His father, who died in 1899, was a law
yer by profession. and during the latter part of
his life was sheriff of the county OF Suffolk. The
son received his early education at the Boston
Latin school. and was graduated at Harvard
College in 1880. He continued in private the
studies Of college life for a year and then en-
tered the law school at Cambridge, where he
formed with his teacher, Judge Story, an in
innate friendship, which continued till the death
OF that eminent jurist. He was admitted to the
bar in 1884, and soon attained a larger share
OF patronage than any other lawyer in
appointed reporter OF the circuit court
or the United States, in which capacity
he published three volumes known a. "Sum-
ners REPORTS, containing decisions of
Judge story He also at the same time edited
the "A merican urist," a quarterly law Jour
nal OF high reputation. During the first three
winters after his admission to the bar while
Judge Story was absent in Washington, Mr.
sumner was appointed Lecturer to the law stu
dents. and part OF the time, during the abssnc,
OF Prof. GIeenleaf, he had sole charge OF the
school. IRls36 he was offered professorship
la the law school and also one inf the college
both of which he declined. In 1887 he visited
Europe, where he remained till 1910, travelling
IN Italy, Germany. and France, aud residing
Tor nearly year in England. On his return
10 Boston he resumed practice and in
lsii-'6 published an elaborate edition with
Though voting with the whig party, he took NJ
active part IN politics till 1915, when on the An
OF July be pronounced before the municipal
Or ,bdeur Of Nations, ;" in which, prompted by
t1e menacing aspect Of affairs between the
United States and Mexico, he denounced the
war sy stem as the ordeal by battle still unwisely
Justice between nations, and insisted that this
system onght to give way to peaceful arbitra-
ton for the adjudication of international
questions, as the private ordeal of battle
had gwen way to such substitutes in the
administration OF justice between indiyid-
uals: His Grafton attracted unusual at.
tention, led to much CONTROVERSY, and was
widely circulated both in America and Europe.
IL was pronounced BY Richard Golden to be
"the most noble contribution made by any
m1dern writer to the cause Of peace" 1t was
followed by rapid succession OF public ad-
dresses on kindred themes, before literary and
academic societies and popular assemblies
which were also widely circulated in print. Mr.
sumner earnestly engaged in the opposition
to the annexation Of Texas on the ground
or slavery, and at Q popular meeting in FaueuiI
hall, November 4, 1885, made q speech against
the measure, which was warmly applauded.
In the year following he made an address
to the whig state convention of Massa-
chusete, on " The anti-slavery duties
of the whig party" and shortly afterward
published letter Of rebuke to Mr.. Robert c.
winthrop, who then represented Boston in
Congress, for his vote III favor of the war with
Mexico. These steps led eventually to Mr.
summers separation from the whig party and
association with the free-soilers, to whose can
didates, Vi an Buren, and Adams, he lent efficient
support In the presidential contest of 1875 After
the withdrawal OF Mr.. Webster from the Senate
OF the United States by his entrance into the
cabinet OF Mr.. Fillmore, in 1870, Mr.. Summer
was nominated for the vacancy by a coalition OF
free-soilers and democrats in the NJ assac husetts
legislature, and was elected, after a most
earnest and protracted contest, which attracted
the universal attention Of the country and the
termination OF which was publicly celebrated
in many places By the anti-slavery party His
bret important speech was upon the fugitive
slave act; against which he argued that Con-
gress had no power under the constitution to
legislate for the rendition OF fugitive slaves,
and that if II had, the act In many essential
particulars conflicted with the constitution, and
vas also cruel and tyrsnnical. In this speech
Mr.: Sumner laid down a. Q guide for political
action the formula to which he has since adj
nered. that freedom Is national and slavery
secuonaL" In the debate on the repeal OF the
missouri compromise, and on the contest
an hansas, Mr.. Sumner took very
pIomihent part. His last speech upon this
.opic, which was subsequently printed under
the tltlc OF "Bne Crime a0ainsf Kauaaa .. $780,