Charles Sumner: “To save the Republic they toiled, digging trenches and making of their…”

On the record

To save the Republic they toiled, digging trenches and making of their bodies breastworks; for the Republic they bled.

Said by

Massachusetts

Source

Sumner highlights the sacrifices made by individuals for the sake of the Republic.

More from Charles Sumner

Consent of the governed necessary in forming new governments of, XII. 298.

Working-men of Europe, desire abolition of war, XVIII. 236.

Slavery and the: speech in New York, XI. 433.

Slave Power, necessity of political action against the, II. 207.

Other voices in this conversation

Charles Sumner: “To save the Republic they toiled, digging trenches and making of their bodies breastworks; for the Republic they bled.”