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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 38: repeal of the Missouri Compromise.—reply to Butler and Mason.—the Republican Party.—address on Granville Sharp.—friendly correspondence.—1853-1854. (search)
here by his last movement. He has entirely verified what I predicted of him to you the year of his election,— stuff not good enough to wear in rainy weather, though bright enough in sunshine. I conjectured your reason for not speaking, although I think I should have done differently. The opportunity was too good to remind Douglas and the country that he was alienating the best friends of the great Compromise of 1850 by his assault upon these clergymen. Even my minister's name Rev. William P. Lunt. is upon the paper, in spite of his sermon which earned for him so many laudations at Washington a couple of years ago. . . . Never mind, one of the best things about the business is, that it has put you in a strong place. This will materially enlarge your sphere of usefulness. The passage of the bill in the Senate by a well-nigh unanimous South, and the body of the Democratic senators from the North, was assured from the beginning; but its fate in the House was uncertain. A vot