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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)
dress the balance which has been turned in favor of slavery by the annexation of Texas. I do not observe, however, any disposition at present to interfere in the question between that colony and the imperial government. I am anxious that It should be left to the parties without any intervention. I shall enclose this in a note to a friend now in London,—Mr. Burlingame. Anson Burlingame. Though young in years, he has won a brilliant reputation as a public speaker. To George Sumner, January 8:— You will see by the papers the doings at Washington. The contest on the Speakership is showing its good influence already. Howell Cobb of Georgia and Winthrop being the Democratic and Whig candidates. Ante, p. 148. The slave-power has received its first serious check, and all parties see that the slavery question is soon to be paramount to all others. . . . General Cass's motion in the Senate Looking to a suspension of diplomatic relations with Austria, on account of her tr