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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 27: services for education.—prison discipline.—Correspondence.— January to July, 1845.—age, 34. (search)
their more worthy countryman to lavish this important patronage on a foreigner. I am so anxious that Senators should rightly understand this that I shall be tempted to address you a letter on the subject, which you may read to Mr. Berrien, Mr. Crittenden, or any others you may think it not improper to approach in this way. Hillard has already written to Mr. Bates; so has Mr. Lawrence to Mr. Crittenden. Mr. Dix, the new Senator from New York, I am told, is a gentleman of taste in art and letteMr. Crittenden. Mr. Dix, the new Senator from New York, I am told, is a gentleman of taste in art and letters. He is a warm friend of Crawford. Will Texas be admitted? We hear to-day that the chances are against the present resolutions. If Mr. Peters is still in Washington, remember me to him. Ever affectionately yours, Charles Sumner. To Charlemagne Tower he wrote, March 30, 1845:— At this moment, our City Government is imbecile,—being the miserable offspring of Native Americanism. It has so little of the confidence of the people that it cannot do much under the new Act; An