 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe - Fugitive slave law of 1850 - 1856 - 396 pages
...bursts of applause from grave and dignified Senators. " By this effort," says Mr. Hale, he has placed " himself side by side with the first orators of antiquity, and as far ahead of any living American orator as freedom is ahead of slavery. I believe that he has formed to-day a new era in the history... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe - History - 1856 - 446 pages
...bursts of applause from grave and dignified Senators. " By this effort," says Mr. Hale, he has placed "himself side by side with the first orators of antiquity, and as far ahead of any living American orator as freedom is ahead of slavery. I believe that he has formed to-day a new era in the history... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe - Fugitive slave law of 1850 - 1856 - 396 pages
...bursts of applause from grave and dignified Senators. " By this effort," says Mr. Hale, he has placed " himself side by side with the first orators of antiquity, and as far ahead of any living American orator as freedom is ahead of slavery. I believe that he has formed to-day a new era in the history... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe - History - 1856 - 414 pages
...grave and dignified Senators. " By this effort," says Mr. Hale, he has placed " himself side by «ide with the first orators of antiquity, and as far ahead of any living American orator as freedom is -ahead of. slavery. I believe that he has formed to-day a new era in the history... | |
 | E. N. Elliott, David Christy, Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Thornton Stringfellow, Robert Goodloe Harper, James Henry Hammond, Samuel Adolphus Cartwright, Charles Hodge - Citizenship - 1860 - 934 pages
...bursts of applause from grave and dignified Senators. "By this effort," says Mr. Hale, he has placed "himself side by side with the first orators of antiquity, and as far ahead of any living American orator as freedom is ahead of slavery. I believe that he has formed to-day a new era in the history... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1871 - 564 pages
...be attributed to him, has, so far as his own personal fame and reputation are concerned, done enongh by the effort he has made here to-day to place himself...antiquity, and as far ahead of any living American orator as Freedom is ahead of Slavery. I believe that he has formed to-day a new era in the history... | |
 | Charles Edwards Lester - Abolitionists - 1874 - 656 pages
...be attributed to him, so far as his own personal fame is concerned he has done enough by his effort here to-day, to place himself side by side with the...antiquity ; and as far ahead of any living American orator, as Freedom is ahead of Slavery. He has to-day formed, I believe, a new era in the history of... | |
 | Edward Lillie Pierce - 1894 - 650 pages
...history. Hale said Sumner had "done enough by the effort he has made here today to place himself side hy side with the first orators of antiquity, and as far ahead of any living American orator as freedom is ahead of slavery ; " and that he had " made a draft upon the gratitude of the... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe - Indians of North America - 1905 - 596 pages
...against them. The Northern members warmly congratulated the orator, Hale declaring that he had placed himself " side by side with the first orators of antiquity, and as far ahead of any living American orator as freedom is ahead of slavery." Chase said of the speech : " It will be received as an emphatic... | |
 | Enoch Walter Sikes, William Morse Keener - United States - 1905 - 560 pages
...against them. The Northern members warmly congratulated the orator, Hale declaring that he had placed himself " side by side with the first orators of antiquity, and as far ahead of any living American orator as freedom is ahead of slavery." Chase said of the speech : " It will be received as an emphatic... | |
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By this effort," says Mr. Hale, he has placed " himself side by side with the first orators of antiquity, and as far ahead of any living American orator as freedom is ahead of slavery. I believe that he has formed to-day a new era in the history of the... 