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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)
y position saw that there was something formidable in a movement so profoundly earnest and so wisely directed. A. H. Stephens's Life, by Johnston and Browne, pp. 236-237. Notwithstanding General Taylor's slaveholding interests and associations, and the type of Southern politicians who had promoted his candidacy, large numbers of antislavery Whigs finally gave him their votes, relying on his declarations in general terms against the exercise of the veto power, Letter to Allison, April 22, 1848. He declined to make the declaration specific as to the Wilmot Proviso. and upon certain qualities which in popular estimation belonged to him. He was indeed a man whose character was marked by moderation, sincerity, and firmness. His nature was alien to political intrigue. He was truly patriotic, loyal to the Union, and looked with aversion upon those who threatened its disruption in any event or upon any pretext. He had not turned his thoughts to the vital question of the time, an