Charles Sumner

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A Union-Saving, constitutional, conservative, law-and-order, right-side-up-with-care, unblushing, unquivering, unsectional, Zoave-drill, Garibaldian, up-to-the-times Abolitionist. 19th Century Best Century.

LBJ, surrounded by suit-wearing men in the Oval Office, finally completes the work of Reconstruction.
A group of red-armbanded Bolsheviks storm the gates of the Winter Palace lead onwards by a red flag
A selection from the Wikipedia page of Congressmen Martin Hoke. "Following the 1994 State of the Union speech by President Bill Clinton, Hoke was preparing to be interviewed for a live broadcast for a local Cleveland television station. After being outfitted with a microphone by a female producer, Hoke remarked to Democratic fellow Cleveland-area congressman Eric Fingerhut that "She's got ze beega breasts" in a mock Italian accent. Although not broadcast live, the remark was recorded, and was the subject of a report by The Washington Post the following day. Coverage of the remark may have been a factor in his failed bid for re-election in 1996."
A political cartoon from 1907, during WJB's fourth run for the presidency, predicting what the announcement of his 29th run in 2007 would look like.
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Picture of a book page with the following text: "It didn't help that Lincoln's most congenial trait was humor. 'Poor Sumner can't take a joke of any kind', Richard Henry Dana once wrote in his diary. He never understood his so-called Lincolnisms: witty stories that Lincoln would tell to make his points. Sometimes, he would ask friends like Schurtz to explain Lincoln's parables to him. He was especially confused by Lincoln's sarcasm. 'If one told Charles Sumner that the moon was made of green cheese, he would controvert the alleged fact in all sincerity, and give good reasons why it could not be so', Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. once quipped. He couldn't fathom why a statesman would ever resort to sarcasm. 'Did you ever see a joke in one of my speeches?' Sumner supposedly once asked a young man. 'Of course you never did. You might as well look for a joke in the book of Revelations'".
Promotional poster for "The Mouse That Roared".
A period lithograph. "Southern Chivalry - ARGUMENT versus CLUB'S". Preston Brooks leans over Sumner, who holds a quill pen in his right hand, holding a cane above his head with two hands.
The Irish flag flies proudly over the GPO in Dublin.
The State Seal of Massachusetts
Period Ottoman propaganda poster - A Lion stands rampant across the straits of Galipoli.
A blue-tinted black-and-white advertisement for the RAF wartime documentary "Target for Tonight". Three spitfires dive from the top right of the poster towards the bottom left, with a photograph of a Vickers Wellington taking up most of the space. Text reads "Wings of vengeance hurtle thru' the air towards the enemy target".
A colorful parade, flanked by hoardes of cheering rainbow-clad spectators, advances through the Back Bay under a pepercorn-cloudy sky.
A peaceful and joyous crowd gathers in support of president Nicolai Ceaucescu in Bucharest, 21 December 1989.
A pin from 1937. Lincoln's head appears in blue in a white background in front of soldiers massed in silhouette with a mountain in the background. Text reads "FRIEND OF THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN BATTALION".
A chickpea fritter sandwich, lemonade, and final basket of Rosemary fries rest proudly on a metal tray.
Preston Brooks, in the famous etching, is captured mid-blow, cane raised above his head as he grips it with both hands. Sumner holds a pen in his right hand as he lies prostrate on the floor. Titled: "SOUTHERN CHIVALRY - ARGUMENT versus THE CLUB
The famous photo of four GIs sitting in a tent, reading the same newspaper. The headline: HITLER DEAD
Joseph Warren, seated, as painted by John Singleton Copley, 1776.
Baron Münchausen tips his hat to you
I know that it is said that nothing hut this political action can put down slavery. Then slavery must continue ; and if we faithfully do our part as Christians, we are not responsible for its continuance. We are not to feel as if we were bound to put it down by any and every means, we do not speak as Christians when we say that slavery inust and shall fall
A bald eagle attacks a slave-mother and child in front of the Capitol building on the cover of "Brown's Anti-Slavery Harp" from 1848.
We stand on the threshold of a new age, which is preparing to recognize new influences. The ancient divinities of Violence and Wrong are retreating before the light of a better day. The sun is entering a new ecliptic, no longer deformed by those images of animal rage, Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, Sagittarius, but beaming with the mild radiance of those heavenly signs, Faith, Hope, and Charity.
A crowd of spectators haven't yet pointed their phones towards the finish line outside the Boston Public Library.
The swastika atop the Nuremberg Rally Grounds is caught mid-explosion by an American Newsreel Cameraman.
the arc of American history is long but it bends, confusingly, towards Donald Trump getting shot and killed for being a pedophile by a guy who voted for him to stop the pedophiles and who is, himself, a pedophile.
A mock death cerfificate, with elaborately filigreed corners. Text reads: DIED: Near the South-Side rail-road on Sunday, April 9th, 1865: THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY, aged four years. Conceived in sin, born in iniquity, nurtured by tyranny, died of a chronic attack of punch. Abraham Lincoln, attending physician, U. S. Grant, undertaker, Jeff Davis, chief Mourner. Then follows a poem: "Gentle Stranger, drop a tear/The C.S.A lies burried here/In youth it lived and prospered well/but like Lucifer it fell/Its body here, it's soul in -well/Even if I knew I wouldn't tell. Rest C.S.A from every strife/your death is better than your life/And this one line shall grace your grave/Your death gave freedom to the slave."
Red Sox have runners at the corners, framed by a full crowd at Fenway Park. The sun is starting to set behind the Mass Mutual sign behind center field.
The engraved cover of a songbook from 1848. "THE ANTI-SLAVERY HARP: COLLECTION OF SONGS, BY WILLIAM W. BROWN, BOSTON, PUBLISHED BY BELLA MARSH, NO. 27 CORNHILL, 1848. An engraved image shows a slave mother, lying on the grass in front of the US Capitol buliding, protecting her child with her body as she is menaced by a bald eagle.
Joseph Rakes, a white teenager standing in the left foreground, appears ready to impale Black civil rights advocate Ted Landsmark (grappled by other protesters) with an American flag as an angry crowd looks on in front of Boston City Hall.
In a French Romantic painting from 1902, the ghosts of several French soldiers are recieved warmly by a hoarde of readheaded naiads, druids, bards and harp-wielding pagans. An imperial eagle flies triumphantly over the scene.
A poster announcing the first annual "Tunes on the Charles" traditional Irish Music festival. Crirish.org.
"LIVE F8U REACTION": An F8U crusader appears surprised at events.
One page of a score appears on a computer screen - a four-part men's choir staff. The title is "Voice of Freedom-ahistorical, but 505 cleansing fountain. Text from the Connecticut Wide-Awake Songster". Opening lines are "The voice of freedom loudly calls/on all the true and brave/from slavery's destroying hand/her fair domain to save".
Khan Pritzker with glowing eyes lords over his Steppe empire from horseback.
LEBRON JAMES reportedly established a socialist government in Paris, but REFUSED to March on Versailles or Sieze the Banks.
AI translation of "The war has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage" into LinkedIn speak: "Reflecting on our recent journey: the current geopolitical landscape has presented some unique challenges that weren't part of our inital road map (graph goes down emoji). While the situation hasn't unfolded exactly as we pivoted for, we're taking this as a massive learning opportunity to re-evaluate our strategy and double down on resilience. It's all about the growth mindset! #leadership #pivoting #resilience #StrategicGrowth #LearningOpportunity
WBUR also contacted Republican State Rep. Travis Corcoran, from the town kf Weare who's slated to be a meynot3 speaker at the Libertarian Party's state convention later this month. In an email, Corcoran declined to respond to WBUR's questions - but lashed out, calling the station "a regime propaganda organ for the ghey-race-communist-elite that have ruined America".
Nikita Kruschev (Steve Buschemi) and Georgy Malenkov (Jeffery Tambor) discuss giving Beria a "Slight Demotion."
A chart. "While Lynch begins with a lead, very basic biographical information quickly changes the state of the race and Roath remarkably crosses the 50% threshold after just a brief introduction". Initial answers to the question, "If Democratic primary election for Congress were today, who would you vote for if the candidages were..." Roath 36%, Lynch 62%. After receiving biographical information: "Stephen Lynch has served as the US representative for Massachusetts' 8th congressional district since 2001. He lives in South Boston", and "Patrick Roath is a lawyer and democracy advocate who formerly worked for Governor Deval Patrick. He is 39 years old and lives in Jamaica Plain": Roath 57%, Lynch 42%.
Walter White screams, silently, helplessly, from the backseat
Charlie Brown lies close to the middle of the pack in confirmed number of hoes, actually, despite the graph labeling telling us otherwise.
"If George Washington existed today he would be woke!" "No he would not be woke!" Washington: "i am quite fond of Connor Hellebuyck".
Rebel alliance aircraft roundel
MTSW the kool-aid man busts through a brick wall. "Because they like Trump, and want him to rule us like a king. Oh yeah!"
The fabulously dressed Percy Blakeney (secretly the Scarlett Pimpernel), examines a portrait of his wife.
A Scarfolk council public information poster. Text reads: "From 12nd January 1973, it will be no longer legal. Whatever you do, DON'T. Don't be one of those people who mistakes doing for not doing or you could face a fine. For more information, please reread this poster".
A famous French Line advertising poster for the Normandie's maiden voyage. Birds fly above the waves, not even reaching halfway up her towering bow.
A large group of Wide-Awakes, clad in cloaks and hats with torches burning, marches through an American city. Terrified slaveocrats not pictured.
A seated portrait of Charles Sumner. He is, somewhat ironically, holding a cane.
A Civil War sword lies in a glass case atop a card catalog drawer.