Charles Sumner

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THE CRISIS, A RECORD OF THE DARKER RACES, VOLUME 1, NUMBER 4 section two along the color line charles sumner and others charles sumner was born january sixth eighteen eleven the centenary of his birthday was fittingly commemorated in new york boston and washington in new york the anniversary was celebrated with memorial exercises under the auspices of the national association for the advancement of colored people at the meeting-house of the society for ethical culture central park west and sixty-fourth street dr john lovejoy elliott presided and the speakers were mrs fanny garrison villard the only daughter of william lloyd garrison moore field story the boston lawyer who is president of the national association for the advancement of colored people on charles sumner dr w e burckhardt du bois on charles sumner and peace and the rev dr stephen s wise rabbi of the free synagogue on a senator with a conscience a telegram was read from jacob s schiff lauding sumner as standing for the highest moral issues of his time this was followed by the reading of a poem on sumner composed by w p stafford mr moorfield's story said among other things the man who appeals to race prejudice whether to keep his fellow-citizens down or to excite suspicion and enmity against a foreign nation is a public enemy and should be branded as such his acts are far more dangerous to the state than those of the recognized criminal if we would honor sumner we must take up the battle to which he gave his life we must wage unrelenting war against the absurd prejudices of race and color whether they bar the negro from his rights as a man the foreigner from his welcome to our shores the filipino from his birthright of independence the hebrew from social recognition or breed the unjust and wicked suspicion which would embroil us in war with any other people whether of europe or asia such meetings as this are of no avail if they do not inspire us with a determination to obey the precepts and follow the example of the man whom we would commemorate in boston two meetings were held the main meeting in faneuil hall and a branch meeting at park street church ex-governor gild governor foss rev r c ransome and others spoke in washington d c several hundred prominent colored people attended the exercises under the auspices of the american negro academy in the fifteenth street presbyterian church a number of white persons were in the audience and addresses were made by justice wendell phillips stafford and ex-senator william e chandler of new hampshire memorial exercises to julia ward howe were held in symphony hall under the auspices of the city of boston and were largely attended, every available seat being taken, and hundreds being turned away.

Mrs. Howe's public services were the subject of addresses from four different standpoints.

William H. Lewis, Assistant U.S. Attorney, spoke of her devotion to the cause of the colored race.

THE CRISIS, A RECORD OF THE DARKER RACES, VOLUME 1, NUMBER 4, BY W. E.

B. DEBOYS.

charles sumner january sixth eighteen eleven january sixth nineteen eleven by justice wendell phillips stafford of the supreme court of the district of columbia i will send him to my dark-browned race on whom the world hath sinned and he shall be as a hiding-place and a covert from the wind as streams of water for the flock amidst the burning sand the shadow of a mighty rock over a weary land so spake the lord god on this day a hundred years agone while the maids to the fainting mother say see thou hast borne a son and now again in the latter year the lord god speaks to-day gird up your loins like men to hear and answer what i say leave me the dead they are my own yours are the sick that die i cannot hear your priests intone for the noise of your poor that cry how is it that the weak complain and my children suffer harm the sacrifice was not in vain the lord made bare his arm you have forgotten the camps that reached from rising to setting suns you have forgotten the truth i preached by the lips of a million guns the thousands who died in the prison pen and the hundred thousand slain must i write it again as i wrote it then to make the lesson plain see how along the dizzy steep go the weak lambs unled see how the thin and hungry sheep look up and are not fed see how the rich in his web still draws around and round the poor he sits and spins his spider laws to make his capture sure see how the man i gave the light leaves man in the dark to dwell and makes religion angel bright procure us unto hell think you i have no reins for wrong no iron curb for a check when the hand of him i have made so strong is on his brother's neck think you the world i made my vow sleeps in my prophet's grave or that my arm is shortened now so that i cannot save now once again i swear he only shall gain who gives the soul that hateth by hate shall die by love the spirit lives and he who will take the curse and carry the griefs of men he shall be my son my anointed one the christ that should come again till man to man by love is bound as man from man by law is free your bells swing round with a hateful sound your censers are a stench to me God of our fathers, be with us as thou wert with our sires, and make our midnight glorious with freedom's beaconing fires.

Show us along our cloud-wrapped way some gleam of thy garment's hem, and do for us in our darkening day as thou hast done for them.

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yeah so if you simply look at the words and i mean the words that they were expressing throughout their lives the abolitionists the radical republicans abraham lincoln charles sumner all those guys who basically led the civil war and then reconstruction it was all about for them remaking the south into the Yankee North.

And that's why, what did they do? They put thousands of schools across the South staffed by mostly women from New England who were all abolitionist Puritans who went down to the South and taught the ex-slaves, guess what? How to be good Americans, the same way they taught the Filipinos 20 years later.

which was the Puritan work ethic, basically sexual repression, conventional gender norms.

We shouldn't even vote because voting is becoming complicit in that project.

That was one view, and it was countered by another group of abolitionists like Garrett Smith, Frederick Douglass, Charles Sumner, who said, look, we reject the idea that the Constitution is what the Supreme Court says it is.

The Constitution is what we bring to it through our politics, through the black convention movement.

That was a redefining what the Constitution can and should mean through petitioning to Congress, through organizing and building coalitions and where possible voting.

So I was doing a lot of reading by the abolitionists, not about them, but themselves.

One thing you discover of Frederick Douglass and Charles Sumner, they were wonderful in every question, but they were absolutely horrible in Native Americans.

God bless his town.

Horrible on Native Americans.

means.

Well, Charles Sumner caned a man, or Charles Sumner

was caned, I think,

on the Senate floor.