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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 38: repeal of the Missouri Compromise.—reply to Butler and Mason.—the Republican Party.—address on Granville Sharp.—friendly correspondence.—1853-1854. (search)
who maintained a studied reserve. and they found in Senator Douglas of Illinois, then seeking Southern votes for the Presidency, an adroit, unscrupulous, and aggressive leader. Douglas, chairman of the committee on territories, made a report January 4, and submitted a bill for organizing the Territory of Nebraska. The report, after discussing the opposite views of the validity of the prohibition, declined to interfere with it; and the bill as first printed in a city journal on the 7th correainst Douglas's report, nor did he signify at the time it was submitted, by any personal explanation, that he objected to it. If he made an objection in committee it was a mild one, and he was careful not to give it publicity. Seward wrote, January 4: Everett was on the Douglas committee, and says he objected. I would not have been allowed to be there. （Seward's Life, vol. II. p. 216.) Everett first signified in the Senate his opposition, February 7. It does not appear that his convictio