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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)
p the supplies if the war was to be prosecuted for the acquisition of territory or any purpose not connected directly with the safety of the Union. Later in the day, Adams, in some caustic remarks. received with hisses as well as cheers, spoke of Sumner as the first man in the United States to proclaim, and to argue at length, the doctrine of withdrawing the supplies, and asked if Webster would not soon claim that also as his thunder. He discussed Webster's speech in the Whig, Oct. 9 and 13, 1847. Webster's presence at the Whig State conventions in 1846 and 1847 is not mentioned by his biographer, G. T. Curtis, and his speeches on those occasions are omitted from Everett's edition of his Works; but they were published in the newspapers at the time. He received from the convention the nomination which he desired; but it availed him little. The antislavery Whigs, with a few exceptions, had come to distrust him, and declined to vote. On the other hand, active partisans intent upon s