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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)
ate or municipal taxation. Jan. 27, Feb. 17, March 16, 1852. Works, vol. III. pp. 12-42. Senators from the West and Southwest— Fetch of Michigan, Geyer of Missouri, and Downs of Louisiana —were grateful for co-operation from an unexpected quarter, and expressed in debate their appreciation of his timely assistance. The favor shown to Sumner by senators from the Southwest was noted as an evidence of the return of good feeling between the sections. T. m. Brewer in the Boston Atlas, Feb. 5, 1852. Two senators who led the opposition were not at all complimentary in their replies. Hunter of Virginia referred to the senator's most delightful idyl, and Underwood of Kentucky intimated that he was seeking to gain favor with the West for ulterior personal ends,—an imputation which, however, was afterwards gracefully withdrawn. Sumner's friends at home—among them Dana, Wilson, Burlingame, and Banks —expressed in notes their pleasure at the manner in which he had acquitted himself,