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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 37: the national election of 1852.—the Massachusetts constitutional convention.—final defeat of the coalition.— 1852-1853. (search)
e canvass. They could have stood successfully against one or more of them, but all together accomplished a secession from their ranks which proved fatal. The causes of the defeat are fully explained in a letter to the National Era. December 15, signed *, written by Henry Wilson (the editor striking out Wilson's criticisms on Adams and Palfrey); by a full account in the New York Evening Post in a letter, November 15, by R. Carter, and a leader, November 16; in the Boston Commonwealth, November 22; in the Norfolk Democrat (Dedham), Nov. 25, 1853, where one of the writers was Henry L. Pierce. The new Constitution failed by five thousand votes, The vote was 62,183 for and 67,105 against it. though receiving a majority outside of Boston; and the Whigs, who carried the Legislature at the last election, were now far stronger in it than before. The Free Soilers held their own in the popular vote, giving Wilson as their candidate for governor nearly thirty thousand votes. Washburn