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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 1 1 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1 1 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 38: repeal of the Missouri Compromise.—reply to Butler and Mason.—the Republican Party.—address on Granville Sharp.—friendly correspondence.—1853-1854. (search)
ed. When Sumner at the close of his speech resumed his seat, Chase said to him: You have struck slavery the strongest blow it ever received; you have made it reel to the centre. Such was the intense feeling, that Pettit's suggestion of Sumner's expulsion was seriously entertained; but a canvass of the Senate showed that a sufficient vote could not be obtained for it. Wilson's Rise and Fall, vol. II. p. 358. The Courier and Enquirer, July 3, the Express and the Herald of New York, June 30, 1854, and other journals of like temper, repeated the charges of perjury and treason against Sumner, and called for his expulsion. Clingman, member of the House, said two years later (July 9, 1856) that Sumner merited chastisement for the speech. Sumner described, on his return home, to his friend Dana, the Senate in executive session, as it seemed at that period, like the cabin of a pirate, where the only test of fitness for office was fidelity to the slave-power. Adams's Biography of Dan