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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)
they had no such thought at the time. (History of the Rebellion, p. 263.) The course of Giddings and Palfrey at this time, as well as the subsequent controversy between Giddings and Winthrop, are fully related in Julian's Life of Giddings, pp. 206-238. and the subtraction of three votes from Winthrop left him without a majority; but on the third ballot his election was effected by the refusal of two Southern members to vote,— Holmes of South Carolina, a Democrat of the Calhoun school, and Tompkins of Mississippi, a Whig, both of whom had previously voted for members who were not candidates. Holmes soon after, in a published letter, justified his action by the course which Winthrop had taken in Massachusetts adverse to the antislavery leaders, and by the opposition which the supporters of the Wilmot Proviso in Congress had made to his nomination and election; and he expressed his satisfaction with the committees as organized by Winthrop. A member from Florida, Cabell, in a letter to