...ow a point of degradation as at this time. Sumner wrote to Adams, June 21: This is the darkest day of our cause; but truth will prevail. Mr. Webster's partisans, deeming him unjustly treated at Baltimore , nominated him as a candidate for President without protest from himself, and persisted in their independent action while he lived, and even after his death, which took place October 24, two weeks be...