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1 It was the subject of controversy in the ‘Daily News,’ a local paper at Newport, R. I., after its delivery in that town. March 1, 1849; and the articles were republished as a pamphlet. Rev. Charles T. Brooks replied in the ‘News’ to Sumner's conservative critic. The phrase chiefly objected to by the critic does not appear in the address as printed, and the passage was probably misapprehended.
2 Wendell Phillips, in This sketch of Sumner in Johnson's Encyclopedia, states his remarkable fascinating with young men.
3 G. W. Julian's ‘Political Recollections,’ pp. 100, 102.
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