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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 32: the annexation of Texas.—the Mexican War.—Winthrop and Sumner.—1845-1847. (search)
al Government should make all legal and constitutional efforts for the removal of this monster evil. This question has at last got into our politics. It will enter the next Presidential election in 1848. There is a breaking up of both parties. The Northern wing of the Democracy is breaking off from its slaveholding allies, and so is the Northern wing of the Whigs. The question of the tariff cannot be the great issue before the country. Webster has not been able to resurrect it. Old John Quincy Adams said to me a few weeks ago, as he lay in his bed after his attack of the paralysis, from which he has now partially recovered, The tariff is an obsolete idea. Sumner, in January, 1847, made an argument before the Supreme Court of the State against the validity of the enlistments in the Massachusetts regiment of volunteers for the Mexican War. He did not succeed in his contention that the proceedings in general were invalid; but the persons who had applied for a discharge, being m