Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Sumner” in chapter 16, page 586 of Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4:
...might have borne against Cushing, who had been for three months an impediment to his first election. Cushing had, in profession at least, come to adopt Sumner's views of the new order of things, and Sumner believed fully in the genuineness of his conversion.
Indeed, his sincerity at this point of his career was as credible as at any other.
He was by
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