Those who most admired his honesty, courage, and power in the realm of his true greatness, most distrusted his fitness to hold the reins of administration.

The sensitive interests of business shrank from his visionary theories and his dangerous empiricism.

All adverse considerations were brought to bear with irresistible effect as the canvass proceeded, and his splendid services and undeniable greatness could not weigh in the scale against the political elements and personal…

He called out a larger proportion of those who intended to vote against him than any candidate had ever before succeeded in doing.

His name had been honored for so many years in every Republican household, that the desire to see and hear him was universal, and secured to him the majesty of numbers at every meeting.

The people saw that the charges against General Hartranft were not only unfounded but malicious, and he was chosen Governor by more than 35,000 majority.

I did not ask for place or position, and was entirely without influence or the acquaintance of persons of influence, but was resolved to perform my part in a struggle threatening the very existence of the Nation.

I performed a conscientious duty without asking promotion or command, and without a revengeful feeling towards any section or individual.

No man ever kept more eager watch over the interests of his constituency or was more constant and indefatigable in his legislative duties.

His mind has been enriched by the study of books and disciplined by controversy at the Bar and in the Senate.

His educational facilities embraced only the public schools of Cleveland, but he has by his own efforts acquired a great mass of curious and valuable information.

He is a man of originality and works out his own conclusions.

His views of financial and economical questions are often in conflict with current maxims and established precedents, but no one can listen to him without being impressed by his intellectual power.

He was an accurate man and always discharged his senatorial duties with care and fidelity.

But he was gifted with strong common sense, and had that quick judgment of men which contributes so essentially to success in public life.

They were not confined to party, to section, or to race.

Profoundly conversant with all subject of legislation, he yet devoted himself absorbingly to the one issue which appealed to his judgment and his conscience.

He held the Republican party to a high standard,--a standard which but for his courage and determination might have been lowered at several crises in the history of the struggle for Liberty.

Sumner must ever be regarded as a scholar, an orator, a philanthropist, a philosopher, a statesman whose splendid and unsullied fame will always form part of the true glory of the Nation.

Sumner strikingly illustrates the shortsightedness and miscalculation of the Southern statesmen preceding the Rebellion.

Not only have the great men passed away, but the great issues, too, raised from our form of government and of deepest interest to its founders and their immediate descendants, have been settled, sir.

Nothing is left you, sir, but puny sectional questions and petty strifes about slavery and fugitive-slave laws, involving no National issues.

He pleased the radical anti-slavery sentiment of New England: he did not displease the radical pro-slavery sentiment of the South.

There is a type of mind in the East that delights in refined fallacies, in the reconciling of apparent contradictions, in the tracing of distinction and resemblances where less subtle intellects fail to perceive their possibility.

But in the art of presenting with force and clearness a subject which he had studied, of analyzing it and simplifying it to the comprehension of the common mind, of clothing it in language as plain and forcible as the diction of John…