Scarce handwritten manuscript by Charles Sumner, one page, 4 x 6.5, dated from Washington on March 3, 1852. The manuscript consists of a section from Sumner's speech entitled 'Anti-slavery Duties of the Whig,' which occurred at the Whig State Convention on September 23, 1846. It reads, in full: "Nor can we dishonor the memories of the revered authors of the Constitution by supposing that they set their hands to it, believing that slavery was to be perpetual—that the republic, which reared by them to its giant stature, had snatched from Heaven the sacred fire of Freedom, was to be bound like another Prometheus, in the adamantine chains of fate while slavery, like another vulture, preyed upon its vitals." Signed at the conclusion by Sumner. Affixed to a slightly larger sheet. In very good to fine condition, with overall light staining.
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