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1 Republican Party; Its Origin, Necessity and Permanence 1860

handle is hein.trials/addx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE REPUBLICAN PARTY; ITS ORIGIN, NECESSITY AND PERMANENCE SPEECH OF HON CHARLES SUMNER, BEFORE THE YOUNG MEN'S REPUBLICAN UNION OF NEW-YORK, JULY 11th, 1860. FELLOW-CITIZEN3 OF NEr YORK :-Of all men in our history, there are two whose influence at this moment is most peculiar. Though dead, they yet live, speak and act in the conflict of principle which divides the country-standing face to face like two well-matohed champions. When I add that one was from South Carolina, and the other from Massachusetts, you will see at once that I mean John C. Calhoun and John Quincy Adams. Statesmen both of long career, of marked ability, and of unblemished integrity-act- ing together at first-sitting in the same cabinet which they quitted-one to be- come Vice-President, and the other Pres- ident, then for the remainder of their days battling in Congress and dying there- each was a leader in life, but each has be- come in death a grander leader still. Mr. Calhoun possessed an intellect of much originality and boldness, and, though wanting in the culture of a scholar, made himself felt in counsel and in debate. To native powers unlike, but not inferior, Mr. Adams added the well ripened fruits of long experience in foreign lands, and or studies more various and complete than those of any public man in our history besideos an indomitable will, and that spirit of Freedom which inspired his father when in the Continental Congress he so eloquently maintained the Declaration of Independence, making himself its Colos- sus on that floor. Sitting together in the Cabinet of Mr. Munroe, they concurred in sanctioning the Prohibition of Slavery fn the Missouri Territory as constitutional, and so ad- vised the President. But here the di- vergence probably began-tough for a long time it was not made manifest. The diary of Mr. Adams shows that at that early day, when slavery had been little discussed, he saw its enormity with in- stinctive quickness, and described it with corresponding force. The record is less full with regard to Mr. Calhoun ; bat

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