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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 44: Secession.—schemes of compromise.—Civil War.—Chairman of foreign relations Committee.—Dr. Lieber.—November, 1860– April, 1861. (search)
hich we fought and won this last great battle, and their triumph and our humiliation will be complete. No one was firmer in this crisis than S. P. Chase, already elected again to the Senate, and just completing his second term as governor of Ohio. His phrase, Inauguration first, adjustment afterwards, became a watchword of uncompromising Republicans; and in that spirit he acted in the Peace Conference, where he dissented from the majority of the Ohio delegation. He wrote to Sumner, Jan. 23, 1861, deploring Seward's speech, He had by letter (Jan. 11, 1861) endeavored to dissuade Seward from making a compromise speech. Schuckers's Life of S. P. Chase, p. 202. and ending, My faith is fixed; no compromise now, and no proposition of adjustment until the executive department of the government is ours. And three days later he wrote again:— The surrender will not save the Union; firmness, decision, moderation, will,—if anything will. If my voice could be heard in the Senate