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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 33: the national election of 1848.—the Free Soil Party.— 1848-1849. (search)
promoting disunion, and said the South ought not to submit to its policy, August 26; November 13. though the editor became eight years later an earnest supporter of the Republican party, to which the charge could be equally well applied. The Whig orators joined in this outcry. Choate assailed the Free Soilers as a party founded upon geographical lines. At Salem, Sept. 28, 1848. Others associated them with nullifiers, and held them up as deserving the penalties of treason. Adams, November 9, at Faneuil Hall, made a spirited retort to Winthrop's suggestion. Boston Republican, November 13. The passage of Sumner's speech at Worcester in June, in which he mentioned the secret influence that went forth from New England, especially from Massachusetts, and contributed powerfully to Taylor's nomination, and in which he referred to the unhallowed union-conspiracy, let it be called—between remote sections; between the politicians of the Southwest and the politicians of the Northea
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 38: repeal of the Missouri Compromise.—reply to Butler and Mason.—the Republican Party.—address on Granville Sharp.—friendly correspondence.—1853-1854. (search)
not consider itself bound beyond the judgment in the case pending; that the decision was only a precedent subject to being overruled even by the same court, and should not have an obligatory force on other departments of the government, when they had occasion to interpret the Constitution in the exercise of a power incidental to other principal duties, which it did not have upon the court itself. National Intelligencer, October 31. Sumner's reply may be found also in the National Era, November 9, and the Liberator, November 10. A brief review of the political situation in Massachusetts, as affected by the conflict between slavery and freedom in Congress, is necessary to an understanding of Sumner's political position at this time. An effectual resistance to the extension of slavery into the territory now open to emigration required a new organization of parties,—the union of Free Soilers and of Whigs and Democrats opposed to the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. Such a fusi
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 39: the debate on Toucey's bill.—vindication of the antislavery enterprise.—first visit to the West.—defence of foreign-born citizens.—1854-1855. (search)
associated with my dear friend [Sumner], who is much in my thoughts. God gird him for the coming fight! Rev. Charles Lowell, father of the poet, wrote, October 30: I cannot forbear saying how much comfort it gives me that you are able to say and do so much for the cause of truth and righteousness and mercy; and it is my earnest hope and prayer that you may long be honored as the instrument in the hands of Providence for the promotion of this great and good work. Seward wrote, November 9:— I see that Massachusetts and New York have gone together into the meshes of this impudent and corrupt secret combination. The Know Nothing or American party. But it is quite enough for me that in both States we have kept our own great cause free from pollution by it. . . . I have read your speech. It is a noble one, me judice; and what it failed to do in the recent canvass, it will do in the next. An intrigue for electing prematurely Sumner's successor by the Legislature of