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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)
bers who had lost interest in existing parties; and to this fact is due its remarkable success at the time. From New York it came to Boston, where it decided the city election in December, 1853. Many Free Soilers in that city, who resented the interposition of the Catholic Church against the new Constitution, entered it at once after their defeat in 1853, and made their influence felt in its early proceedings in Massachusetts. Others of them, after the failure of the attempted fusion in July, 1854, joined it, Many Whigs who had been disappointed by the failure of the proposed fusion joined it. The Springfield Republican (November 10) attributed the growth of the order to the failure of the effort to unite the opponents of the extension of slavery. Life and Times of Samuel Bowles, vol. i. pp. 125-127. and earnest and active as they were, exercised a predominant influence in its councils. Their most trusted leaders—Sumner, Adams, Later, in January, 1855, Adams assailed the o