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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, chapter 10 (search)
ned to be done in it on the completion of which he had set his heart. His friends also, who took the most interest in his personal fortunes, were averse to his leaving the Senate. E. L. Pierce wrote to him, Jan. 20, 1869: By your service in the Senate you are to live in the history of the country. Is it not best to remain there? With it there is fixedness and independence; beyond, there is uncertainty of tenure and a measure of subordination. William Endicott. Jr., of Boston, and W. M. Dickson, of Cincinnati, took the same view in letters; and the Boston Commonwealth, Nov. 21, 1868, concurred in it. Sumner was reticent when his name was mentioned for the Cabinet as among the probabilities. The most that he said was in a letter to Lieber, written the day after the election in November in reply to the latter's suggestions on the subject:— The headship of the first committee of the Senate is equal in position to anything in our government under the President; and it leave