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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 33: the national election of 1848.—the Free Soil Party.— 1848-1849. (search)
g them shrank at the last from an extension which might after a struggle leave them relatively weaker. The purpose of Polk's Administration to acquire territory from Mexico was manifested early in the war, and even before. The President, in August, 1846, signified to Congress that a cession from Mexico was a probable mode of concluding peace, and with that purpose in view called for two millions of dollars. An appropriation bill being reported in the House, Wilmot of Pennsylvania moved, August 8, an amendment, known afterwards as the Wilmot Proviso, prohibiting slavery forever in the territory to be acquired. It passed the House with the general support of both Northern Whigs and Democrats, but a vote was prevented in the Senate by the unseasonable loquacity of John Davis of Massachusetts, who was still talking when the session expired. Von Holst, vol. III. pp. 287-289. Davis's long speech was certainly a ridiculous folly as well as a grave mistake. The struggle was renewed at
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, chapter 14 (search)
ckeray and Cruikshank at L. B. Mackinnon's. He met again Brougham and Lyndhurst. Lady Byron, an invalid, asked him to tea, referring to the pleasure which he and Lady Arabella King found in each other's society. He was present at a reception at Strawberry Hill. The Speaker gave him a seat for a month under the gallery of the House, which he frequently occupied. London society, agreeable as it was, was too much of a strain, and he left, July 23, for Bains Frascati near Havre. He wrote, August 8, to J. R. Gordon, of Montpellier:— I left Dieppe for London, where I enjoyed myself at breakfasts and dinners, besides often attending Parliament. This was too much for a convalescent, and I cane to this place, where I have been already a fortnight, and shall remain a month longer, happier in seclusion and sea-bathing than in the grande monde of Paris or London. Here I have access to the cercle and to the public library; but I find no such friendly houses as yours and Martins's, and