Author:Charles Sumner

Charles Sumner
(1811–1874)

Charles Sumner

Works

• The True Grandeur of Nations (1845)
• Freedom National; Slavery Sectional (26 August 1852)
• The Landmark of Freedom. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner against the repeal of the Missouri prohibition of slavery north of 36° 30'. (21 February 1854)
• Duties of Massachusetts at this Crisis, a speech at the Republican Convention in Worcester (7 September 1854) (transcription project)
• The Crime against Kansas (19-20 May 1856)
• The Barbarism of Slavery (4 June 1860)
• “… concerning the creation of a bust of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney,” Congressional Globe, February 23, 1865.
• Letters to Carl Schurz:
  • 1862: July 5.
  • 1865: June 15, June 22, July 11, November 15, December 25.
  • 1871: September 25.
• The duel between France and Germany (26 October 1870; reprinted 1911) (external scan), gutenberg.org (text)

Works about Sumner

• "Charles Sumner" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1874)
• "Hymn at the Funeral Services of Charles Sumner" by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1874)
• Eulogy by Carl Schurz, Boston Music Hall, April 29, 1874
• "The Public Career of Charles Sumner", by William Henry Smith, in The Dial, Vol. 15, Num. 170 (July 16, 1893)
• "To Charles Sumner" by John Greenleaf Whittier
• "To Charles Sumner" in Littell's Living Age, 128 (1655) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Encyclopedia articles

• "Sumner, Charles," by George William Curtis in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1900)
• "Sumner, Charles," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "Sumner, Charles," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Sumner, Charles," by Moorfield Storey in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1912)
• "Sumner, Charles," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• "Sumner, Charles," by Marcus W. Jernegan in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• "Sumner, Charles," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)