Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Palfrey” in chapter 4, page 156 of Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3:
...election; but both from the first agreed that in case they failed to assume it, the duty of separate action would be incumbent on antislavery men.
Sumner's other correspondents at Washington were Palfrey , from December, 1847, and Horace Mann, who took J. Q. Adams's seat early in 1848.
He had requested Mann to undertake the defence of Drayton and Sayres, indicted in the District of Columbia
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