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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 35: Massachusetts and the compromise.—Sumner chosen senator.—1850-1851. (search)
e was obliged, according to his present argument about the four States, to vote for her admission with or without slavery; but his vote stands nay. But it would be a long work to expose his shiftless course,— everything by starts, and nothing long. Mr. Leavitt, of the Independent, talks of taking him in hand, and exposing the double dealings of his life. I wish he might do it through the Post. When you have done with the pamphlet, please return it. Of the committee who reported it were George Blake, now dead, who was a leading Republican; Josiah Quincy, Federalist, late President of Harvard College; James T. Austin, Republican, late Attorney-General of Massachusetts; and John Gallison, a lawyer, who died soon after, but of whom there are most grateful traditions in the profession. 1 admired particularly the article on Webster, written shortly after the speech. It must have been done by Mr. Dix. John A. Dix. Sumner was probably at fault in this conjecture. Aut Erasmus aut Diabol