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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore) 17 3 Browse Search
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall) 2 0 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 32: the annexation of Texas.—the Mexican War.—Winthrop and Sumner.—1845-1847. (search)
g, October 7. A brilliant light went out. He was as a senator a sympathetic spectator of the surrender of the North in 1850, accepted during that period a place in Fillmore's reactionary Cabinet, and ten years later was the foremost compromiser with an incipient rebellion. A brief mission to Mexico closed his public life; and resuming the practice of the law at Washington in the midst of the Civil War, he had no inspirations for the period, and sadly confessed, I am but a tradition. A. P. Russell's Sketch of Thomas Corwin, p 111. He ended as a man of such weak moral fibre is always likely to end. From December, 1846, until 1851, when he entered the Senate, Sumner was in frequent and confidential communication with Joshua R. Giddings. Some of this correspondence will be found in Julian's Life of Giddings, pp. 202, 204, 210-214, 217, 222, 227, 247, 260. Among the leaders of the antislavery cause in the House of Representatives, Giddings is entitled to hold in history the fore