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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1 8 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 8 0 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 47: third election to the Senate. (search)
such a committee, moved as a substitute a brief resolution supporting the government in the prosecution of the war. J. Q. A. Griffin F. W. Bird, William Claflin, and other supporters of Sumner had selected Griffin in a conference as their leader Griffin in a conference as their leader in the convention. promptly moved an amendment, which approved the conduct of the two senators from Massachusetts, and nominated Sumner for re-election as a statesman, a scholar, a patriot, and a man of whom any republic in any age might be proud. He maintained his substitute in a trenchant speech, in which he handled roughly Dana and others co-operating with him. Mr. Griffin never took part in any controversy outside of his own State, and he died before the full fruition of his powers; Heegates, among them George F. Hoar, followed in the same line; and the resolutions were referred to a committee, of which Griffin was chairman and Dana a member. In committee Dana opposed without success the contested resolution, and another which c