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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2 4 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 2 0 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, chapter 10 (search)
York Evening Post, which were published in a pamphlet, with the title Senator Sherman's Fallacies. William Endicott, Jr., of the same city, wrote the same day, invoking Sumner to remonstrate against the national perfidy proposed by Mr. Sherman. The country will always be grateful to Mr. Sherman for his later services, both in the Senate and in the Cabinet, in promoting the resumption of specie payments, and in resisting the scheme for silver inflation. These correspondents, and also George B. Blake, the Boston banker, were very anxious that Sumner should at this session expose the financial heresies. His colleague had little taste for such discussions; and General Butler, of Massachusetts, a champion of the Ohio idea in the House, had encountered no reply from any colleague. Sumner had indeed no aptitude for abstruse questions of finance; but he was ready to set himself to any task, however uncongenial, where national honor and safety were concerned. He replied to a correspo