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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)
ong list of names attached to the letter to Mr. Webster shows some remarkable absences, particularlnd have been aided by traitors at the North. Webster's apostasy is the most barefaced. Not only tlete refutation of the reverend defender of Mr. Webster's new faith. All the dogs of the pack ars erred in tone, he caught the infection from Webster himself, who dealt at him some bitter personaeech of March 7, and undertook the defence of Webster's Latin quotations in articles which were und his prophecy. In his newspaper he denounced Webster as the great apostate, and invoked a combinedto fill the vacancy, substituted Winthrop for Webster as the Whig candidate for senator; but with t Free Soilers, the approval or disapproval of Webster still remained the issue of the State electioor the speech of march 7, Curtis's Life of Webster, vol. II. p. 410 note. withdrawing his name rival for a seat in the Cabinet, and advising Webster's appointment in the most friendly, open, and[60 more...]
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)
ied a senator during the preceding Congress. Webster had passed from the body to Fillmore's Cabineean, Foote of Mississippi, at the instance of Webster the Secretary of State, offered in the Senatem Schouler in the Boston Atlas, December 13. Webster was in the Senate the day before, but probabl in his honor,—the notable event of which was Webster's memorable speech. Sumner, though regrettinthe hearty, able, and unfailing support which Webster, Everett, Winthrop, and Choate always receiveooper, Feb. 25, 1852, at a meeting of which Mr. Webster was chairman, called to raise funds for a me durable monument to Cooper than any other. Webster's historical article was crude and trite enounfidence in public men,—all the more so since Webster's defection. They had put faith in Sumner as to the distrust of public men growing out of Webster's course, he wrote:— I know too well ththose uttered by you in Faneuil Hall. . . . Mr. Webster's awful treachery and shameless apostasy ha<