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Browsing named entities in Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3. You can also browse the collection for Franklin Pierce or search for Franklin Pierce in all documents.
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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)
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 37 : the national election of 1852 .—the Massachusetts constitutional convention .—final defeat of the coalition.— 1852 -1853 . (search)
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)
Chapter 38: repeal of the Missouri Compromise.—reply to Butler and Mason.—the Republican Party.—address on Granville Sharp.—friendly correspondence.—1853-1854.
Chase and Sumner were the only two Free Soil senators in the Thirty-third Congress, the first in the Administration of Franklin Pierce, which began its session Dec. 5, 1853.
They missed the readiness and wit of Hale of New Hampshire, who had been succeeded by a Democrat.
The Democrats being in a majority in the Senate, designated in caucus from their number a majority of each committee, assigning places to Chase, and leaving the vacancies to be filled by the Whigs, with the expectation that they would assign places to Sumner.
Seward's motion in the Whig caucus to put him on certain committees was withdrawn in consequence of the opposition of Everett, who after stating his friendly relations with his colleague, which he wished to have continued, was averse to any action which would recognize him as a Whig,.
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