Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Massachusetts” in chapter 10, page 354 of Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3:
...s foremost orator contained nothing.
Not with such reluctant and spiritless resistance can a great cause ever be maintained against passion, ambition, and the greed for dominion.
It was well that Massachusetts had then in the Senate another voice than Everett's to speak for her.
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