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UNION AND PEACE! -
HOW THEY SHALL BE RESTORED.
OF
ION'. CH1ARILES SUMNER,
BEFORE THE REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION, AT WORCESTER,
OCTOBER 1, 1861.
Therefore take heed --
How you awake our sleeping sword of War.
We charge you, In the name of God, take heed.
--SHAKS ARE, Henry V.
To humor the present disposition and temporize is a certain, absolutely certain confirmation of the
Evil. No nation ever did or ever can recover from Slavery by such methods.-k5. Fox, Letter to Lord
Holland, 18th June, 1804.
[Upon the appearance of Mir. Sumner on the platform, he was most cordially
greeted by the whole Convention and the large audience in the galleries. Hon.
H.L. Dawes, President of the Convention, introduced him in a few felicitous
words, whereupon the warm applause of the vast assembly burst forth again with
great enthusiasm, ending with three rousing cheers.]
FELLOW CITIZENS :--In meeting my fellow citizens of Massachusetts, who have
come together on this occasion from all parts of the Commonwealth, I find myself
in a familiar scene, but I feel that there has been a change. Yes I there has been
a great change, and it is manifest in our Convention.
We are no longer met, as so often in times past, for purposes of controversy, or
to sustain our cause by argument. That hour has passed. Formerly I have
exposed to you the atrocities of the Fugitive Slave Bill; I have rejoiced to show
that Freedom was National and Slavery Sectional; I have striven to prevent the
extension of Slavery into the Territories; I have vindicated epecially Freedom in
Kansas, assailed by slaveholding conspirators; I have exposed the tyrannical
usurpations of the Slave Oligarchy, and I have dragged into light the whole vast
intense Barbarism of Slavery. [Applause.] But these topics have now passed
into history, and are no longer of practical interest. They are not of to-day.
Let us rejoice that at least so much has been gained, and from the extent of our
present triumphs take hope and courage for the future. Providence will be with
the good cause in times to come, as in times past. Others may despair; I do not,
Others may see gloom; I cannot. Others may hesitate; I will not. [Applause.]
Already the country has been saved. Great as may seem to be its present peril,
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