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CHARLES SUMNER.
The real successor to John Quincy Adams as the protagonist of the anti-slavery cause in Congress proved to be not Seward but Charles Sumner of Massachusetts.

This newcomer entered the Senate without previous legislative experience but with an unusual equipment for the role he was to play.

A graduate of Harvard College at the age of nineteen, he had entered upon the study of law in the newly organized law school in which Joseph Story held one of the two professorships.
He was admitted to the bar in 1834, but three years later he left his slender law practice for a long period of European travel.

This three years' sojourn brought him into intimate touch with the leading spirits in arts, letters, and public life in England and on the Continent, and thus ripened his talents to their full maturity.