Charles Sumner Quotes
The Great Guarantee; and the only sufficient Guarantee
Charles Sumner, 1811-1874, U. S. Senator (Democrat, Free Soiler and Republican, MA), Description of the voting franchise and the rights of citizenship for the emancipated slaves, Senate Debate
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Assuring one of his business associates alarmed at the landslide election victory of a Democrat, Grover Cleveland:
Charles Sumner was an American statesman and United States Senator from Massachusetts. As an academic lawyer and a powerful orator, Sumner was the leader of the anti-slavery forces in the state and a leader of the Radical Republicans in the U.S. Senate during the American Civil War. During Reconstruction, he fought to minimize the power of the ex-Confederates and guarantee equal rights to the freedmen. He fell into a dispute with President Ulysses Grant, a fellow Republican, over the control of Santo Domingo leading to the stripping of his power in the Senate and his subsequent effort to defeat Grant's re-election.