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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)
oston Courier, April 3, 1850; Boston Advertiser, April 3. The last—named newspaper, by a slip of the pen, called the signers Mr. Webster's retainers.—among them merchants like Eliot, Perkins, Fearing, Appleton, Haven, Amory, Sturgis, Thayer, and Hooper; lawyers like Choate, Lunt, B. R. Curtis, and G. T. Curtis; physicians like Jackson and Bigelow; scholars like Ticknor, Everett, Prescott, Sparks, Holmes, and Felton; divines like Moses Stuart and Leonard Woods. Its passage was signalized by ther their right to give instructions to their representatives, assembled in certain towns under a legal call, and instructed their members to vote for Sumner. This gave Mr. Borden The meeting in Fall River was held April 12. On motion of Dr. Foster Hooper, a Democrat, the Fall River representatives were instructed by a vote of two hundred and thirty-three to eighty-four to vote for Sumner, and from that time Mr. Borden cordially complied with the instruction. and also a few indomitables, alr