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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 38: repeal of the Missouri Compromise.—reply to Butler and Mason.—the Republican Party.—address on Granville Sharp.—friendly correspondence.—1853-1854. (search)
e opposition, and sketched with great force and point the line of argument afterwards presented by the friends of freedom. Rise and Fall, vol. II. p. 385. Douglas considered Chase rather than Sumner or Seward to be the leader in the opposition to his measure. See Douglas's statement in Constitutional and Party Questions, by J. M. Cutts, p. 123. Douglas was reported to have said that but for Chase and Sumner he should have encountered no obstruction. Syphax in the Boston Commonwealth, March 13, 1854. To this eminent statesman belongs the honor of leadership in this historic debate. When Mr. Everett entered the Senate in March, 1853, he was buoyant in spirit. He considered it, as he said at the time, the highest honor of his public life that he had been permitted to have a seat in that body. March 21, 1853, in debate. He took occasion, about three weeks later, in the discussion of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, to make a Young America speech on Central American affairs, in which h