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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)
tion. General Samuel Houston, senator from Texas, was mentioned at the time among the Democratic candidates for the Presidency. With him the antislavery interest would stand better than with any man who seems now among possibilities. He is really against slavery, and has no prejudice against Free Soilers. In other respects he is candid, liberal, and honorable. I have been astonished to find myself so much of his inclining. To Theodore Parker, February 6:— I have yours of 25th of January proposing to me to write an article on Judge Story in the Westminster Review. As a filial service I should be glad to do this; but how can I? I rarely go to bed before one or two o'clock, and then I leave work undone which ought to be done. To John Bigelow, February 8:— Pardon me if I say frankly you have done injustice to Story. Mr. Bigelow had in a review of Judge Story's Life and Letters, in the New York Evening Post, Jan. 29 and Feb. 4, 1852, disparaged the judge's char
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)
a letter published Jan. 7, 1854, and the National Era, January 12, noted that the bill did not touch the prohibition until the Territory was admitted as a State,—a construction which probably prompted Dixon's amendment. New York Evening Post, January 25. Every day and at every step the conspirators grew in audacity. Dixon of Kentucky, a Whig, gave notice on the 16th of an amendment which without disguise repudiated the prohibition and legalized slavery in the Territory. Sumner met this propits import, and they delayed for several weeks—some for a month or more—to take definite ground against it. The Boston Atlas's first notice of the scheme was January 11, and its first article was on January 19; the Journal's first article on January 25; the Advertiser's on January 30; the Courier's, a very brief one, on February 9. All the editorial matter concerning the measure in the last-named journal during the whole controversy would not equal in space one of its several articles on the<