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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 32: the annexation of Texas.—the Mexican War.—Winthrop and Sumner.—1845-1847. (search)
ter as a volunteer into the controversy concerning Winthrop; he came to it after it had been opened by Adams, and then only at the request of friends, who knew how deeply he felt upon the subject, and desired him to take a part in the discussion. He was reluctant to become a critic of Winthrop's vote; he respected the latter's personal character and attainments, had approved generally his public course, and held agreeable personal relations with him. Sumner, in a letter to Winthrop, Dec. 22, 1845. approved strongly the latter's resolutions offered in Congress in favor of arbitration instead of war. His letter to Winthrop, Jan. 9, 1846, contended the latter's speech in favor of a peaceful settlement of the Oregon question, while taking exception to one of its declarations, that the country would be united in the event of a war, whatever might be previous differences of opinion. He maintained, on the other hand, that the people ought not to sustain the government in an unjust war
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 35: Massachusetts and the compromise.—Sumner chosen senator.—1850-1851. (search)
he Ordinance, in his first speech in the Hayne controversy, has not been used against his present tergiversation. There is another document which might be used effectively against him,—the address of the Massachusetts Anti-Texas State convention in January, 1845, the first half of which was actually composed by Mr. Webster, partly written and partly dictated. In this he takes the strongest ground against the constitutionality of the resolutions of annexation. Then followed his speech, Dec. 22, 1845, in the Senate, against the admission of Texas with a slaveholding constitution. If the faith of the country was pledged, as he now says it was, by these resolutions when they were accepted by Texas, he was obliged, according to his present argument about the four States, to vote for her admission with or without slavery; but his vote stands nay. But it would be a long work to expose his shiftless course,— everything by starts, and nothing long. Mr. Leavitt, of the Independent, talks o