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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)
l office. On that subject you have no secrets to communicate to me; your purposes and wishes have been transparent. It is not difficult for me to appreciate your repugnance to political life. Palfrey, who was very unfriendly to the cooperation of the Free Soilers with the Democrats, nevertheless expressly acquitted Sumner of all selfish ends,—saying in a letter, February 25: No one acquainted with your course in this matter can ever say that it has not been most high and honorable. Stephen C. Philips 1801-1857—and no finer character distinguishes this period—naturally felt, after being the head of the Free Soil State ticket, a sense of disappointment that he had not been selected as the candidate for senator. He wrote Sumner pathetically, just after the nomination was made: I acquit you of all unfriendly intentions or acts. I rejoice in the conviction that this, while it is the severest, is the last of my political trials; and though it is far from being such a close of a public<