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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 36: first session in Congress.—welcome to Kossuth.—public lands in the West.—the Fugitive Slave Law.—1851-1852. (search)
Sumner, Upham, and Wade. The negative votes were given by the supporters of slavery or Compromise, among them being the Northern names of Fish, Truman Smith, and Norris. The purpose to cut him off from an opportunity to speak during the session was now openly avowed,—Mason of Virginia saying to him personally that he should not nd effective. I trust not to lose this character here. All the Democratic leaders and most of the Whigs desired a hearing for me. Cass, Atchison, Soule, Bright, Norris, and many others told me so before I tried. my remarks were conceived so as to give them an opportunity of granting me the privilege. But after the call of ayesbate to have closed. He reached his seat, however, just as the call of the roll began; and rising, again went behind the Vice-President's chair. Foot of Vermont, Norris of New Hampshire, Dodge of Wisconsin, and, most marked of all, Seward Sumner says, in a note to his Works (vol. III. p. 93), Seward was absent, probably const
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)
rried without unity of argument, settled nothing. Proposed with the pretence of establishing peace between the sections, it proved the opening of a controversy which was shortly to rage in Congress and in bloody strife in Kansas. Sumner intended to speak again on the bill, but was dissuaded by Seward, whose influence with him was then considerable as to questions of time and occasion. Twice, however, during the last night of the debate he was on his feet,—once to deny the charge made by Norris of New Hampshire that he had counselled forcible resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act in his Faneuil Hall speech in 1850, This point of controversy was the subject of a letter from Sumner printed in the Washington Union, March 15, 1854. Seward (Life, vol. II. p. 225) advised him not to notice that journal's attack. and again to repel the insinuation of Douglas that he had come to the Senate by participation in a dishonorable combination. Sumner wrote to Dr. Howe, Dec. 8, 1853:—