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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)
monstrations in favor of compromise were made. Seward's speech and Adams's propositions had turned the public mind in that direction, and the masses of men do not at such a time discriminate between different schemes. The supporters of Bell, Douglas, and Breckinridge, being in a majority, took the lead in urging the Crittenden plan, and they carried along with them some unreflecting Republicans. Among the callers of a Union meeting in its support were William Appleton, Albert Fearing, James M. Beebe, and Josiah G. Abbott. The meeting was held February 5, in Faneuil Hall, with Mayor Wightman in the chair; and among the speakers were J. Thomas Stevenson, B. R. Curtis, and H. F. Durant. Seward and Adams were applauded at the meeting. Durant denounced Sumner, and referred to the break between him and Adams. At a workingmen's meeting, so called, held February 19, in the same place, in support of the compromise, Seward's and Adams's names were applauded, and Sumner's received with g