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1 [208] ‘Emancipator and Republican,’ August 15, contains Sumner's letter accepting the Free Soil renomination; also a leader commending him, which was written by E. L. Pierce.
2 Private Correspondence, vol. II. pp. 385, 387-389.
3 Advertiser, October 2ZZZ. It was reviewed in a pamphlet by William Jay, under the name of ‘Hancock.’
4 November 26. The call was signed by some thousands of names, largely those of merchants and tradesmen. It bore also the signatures of Webster and Everett, and of the historians Motley and Parkman. A similar meeting at Castle Garden, New York, October 30, was addressed by the leaders of the bar of that city,—Wood, O'Conor, Hoffman, Brady, and Evarts. As to Evarts's support of the Fugitive Slave law, see Adams's ‘Biography’ of Dana, p. 176.
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