the sword of the spirit in its hand, but with a tender
light in its eye, and a human love in its smile. Guido and
Raphael conceived their "inviolable saint,"

Invulnerable, impenetrably armed:
Such high advantages his innocence
Gave him above his foe; not to have sinned,
Not to have disobeyed. In fight he stood
Unwearied, unobnoxious to be pained
By wounds.

The Michael of the painters, as a critic of genius akin to
their own has pointed out, rests upon his prostrate foe light
as a morning cloud, no muscle strained, with unhacked sword
and unruffled wings, his bright tunic and shining armor without
a rent or stain. Not so with our human champion. He had
to bear the bitterness and agony of a long and doubtful struggle,
with common weapons and against terrible odds. He came out
of it with soiled garments and with a mortal wound, but without
a regret and without a memory of hate.

It was fortunate for Sumner and fortunate for the Commonwealth
and the country that he had Henry Wilson for his colleague.
Wilson supplied almost everything that Sumner lacked. I cannot
undertake to tell the story of his useful life in the space
at my command here. If I were to try I should do great injustice
to him and to myself.

He was a very impressive and interesting character, of many
virtues, of many faults. His faults he would have been the
first to acknowledge himself. Indeed, I do not know of any
fault he had that he would not have acknowledged and lamented
in a talk with his near friend, or that he would have sought
to hide from the people.

The motives which controlled his life from the time when
he snatched such moments as he could from this day's work
on a shoemaker's bench and studied far into the night to
fit himself for citizenship, down to the time when he died
in the Vice-President's chamber--the second officer in the
Government--and if his life and health had been spared, he
very likely would have been called to the highest place in
the Government--were public and patriotic, not personal.
He was not without ambitions for himself. But they were
always subordinate in him to the love of liberty and the
love of country. He espoused the unpopular side when he
started in life, and he stuck to it through all its unpopularity.

He was a skilful, adroit, practised and constant political
manager. He knew the value of party organization, and did
not disdain the arts and diplomacies of a partisan. He