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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)
Democrats would carry the State, told him that he would be the senator. Sumner replied that it would not be so; that others were better fitted, and that his own tastes lay elsewhere; that he preferred literature, and had thought of writing an historical work. The poet, in his ode To C. S. written in 1856, referred to that night-scene by the sea prophetical, and— Rejoiced to see thy actual life agree With the large future which I shaped for thee When, years ago, beside the summer sea, White in the moon, we saw the long waves fall. The election resulted more favorably to the union than its most sanguine promoters had anticipated. The Democrats and Free Soilers combined defeated an election of governor which required a majority vote, and secured a considerable majority in both houses of the Legislature. The sentiment of union was so spontaneous that the people had acted upon it in all parts of the State. Twenty-one Eleven Free Soilers and ten Democrats. Free Soil and De