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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)
Meantime, on January 22 he was elected on the part of the Senate, receiving twenty-three out of thirty-eight votes; Sumner would have been easily elected in a joint convention of the two Houses, such as is now held in case of disagreement. and Robert Rantoul, Jr., a Democrat, was chosen by both branches for Webster's unexpired term, which Winthrop was temporarily filling. To the end the contest in the House continued a doubtful one. The counts were sometimes unsatisfactory; and from February 20 the members were required to give their votes while passing in front of the speaker's desk, their names being checked as they gave them. Sumner, as he confessed to intimate friends, had little expectation of a favorable result after the first week. He, as well as other Free Soilers, was at times hopeful; but the contest as it dragged on was with them a weary one. The Whigs spared no effort to defeat an election, counting—as well they might, if there were no choice—on success in the nex
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)
s own way for a long time, but they were first made uneasy by taunts from two opposite quarters,— the Compromise Whigs on the one side, and the non-voting Abolitionists on the other; the former bitterly opposed to him, and the latter standing aloof from the movement which put him in the Senate, but now as always nothing if not critical, and assuming the direction of his public conduct. The first allusion to his silence was made late in February in the Massachusetts Senate, by Warren, February 20. Charles H. Warren, at one time a judge, was a clever lawyer, ready in wit, apt in sarcasm, and sharp in finding an adversary's vulnerable points. He was a person without serious aims and with much levity of character, convivial in habits, and in full communion with the society and capital of Boston at this period. a very conservative Whig, in a public speech, to which Wilson, the president, leaving the chair, replied that the senator would speak at the proper time. February 24. Wils