...Mr. Cushing's appointment,—among them F. W. Bird, Dr. S. G. Howe, Wendell Phillips, and George F. Hoar, who signified in letters to the senator their earnest opposition to a confirmation. One Massachusetts lawyer, P. W. Chandler, alone took a different view. Sumner, as soon as the nomination was made, decided to support it by speech as well as vote; and this decision was almost as much a surprise a...