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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 35: Massachusetts and the compromise.—Sumner chosen senator.—1850-1851. (search)
ed term then held by Mr. Winthrop, being the few weeks remaining till the 4th of March, and that the Free Soilers should have the senator for the full term of six years from the 4th of March, and also the other State officers; and this arrangement was approved unanimously by the two parties. The candidates presented by either party were to be approved by the other; and this approval was unhesitatingly given, except in the case of the senator for the full term. The Free Soilers in caucus, January 7, nominated Sumner by a ballot in which he received eighty-four out of eighty-five votes. E. L. Keyes, giving figures slightly different, said, in a letter to him communicating the result We have just taken the vote by ballot for senator, and you are the man. For Charles Sumner, 82; others, 0. We have sworn to stand by you; to sink or swim with you, at all hazards. If you shall fail us in any respect, may God forgive you! we never shall. When his name was presented to the Democratic ca
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 36: first session in Congress.—welcome to Kossuth.—public lands in the West.—the Fugitive Slave Law.—1851-1852. (search)
w forum, and to show that general affairs were within his purpose and grasp, before entering on the discussion of the slavery question. It was curious to see how eagerly the Whig journals of Boston seized upon the speech as a means for weakening the senator's position. They withheld it from their readers, though publishing Underwood's reply; and they imputed to its author an extravagance of generosity to the new States at the expense of the old. The Advertiser January 30; February 2, 3, 7; April 16. teemed with a series of editorial criticisms exceeding in length the speech itself; and its contemporaries Atlas, April 16 and 17. The Courier, Traveller, and Journal dissented from the senator, but the Transcript (February 2 and 13) and the Commonwealth (February 4 and April 5) justified him. in that city, with less elaboration, joined in the censure. The spirit of these critics was shown in the fact that they did not quarrel with the result to which he came,—the support of the