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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 25: service for Crawford.—The Somers Mutiny.—The nation's duty as to slavery.—1843.—Age, 32. (search)
y and discursive view of the question about which you inquire. I cannot flatter myself that any thing of mine can aid your elaborate studies. The matter does not seem to me to rise to the dignity of a debatable question. All reasoning under the Constitution is on our side, and all the instincts of justice, too. All the learning on the subject of alienage is collected and arranged by Kent in his Lecture on Aliens, Vol. II.; and Mr. Wirt, in his masterly argument on the impeachment of Judge Peck (the greatest published juridical argument in English or American history), has thrown great light upon the influence of the common law over the Constitution and laws of the United States,—a topic that may not be unimportant in determining the meaning of the word citizen. Believe me, my dear sir, very faithfully yours, Charles Sumner. P. S. There was a company of blacks during our Revolution, and, I think, some of them have drawn pensions. To his brother George he wrote, March