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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 34: the compromise of 1850.—Mr. Webster. (search)
eyond the question of the territories, and comprehended all the relations of slavery to the nation. It was marked by profound interest on both sides, and watched with deep anxiety by the country. Toombs, Stephens, Clingman, Jefferson Davis, and Foote read elaborate speeches at the beginning of the session, and, supported by the bolder spirits of the South, declared themselves ready for disunion in the event of legislation by Congress prohibiting slavery in the territories, or even of the admiy who is not known to be opposed to the disturbance of the settlement aforesaid, and to the renewal in any form of agitation upon the subject of slavery. Giddings's History of the Rebellion, pp 348, 349. Among the signers were Howell Cobb, H. S. Foote, A. H. Stephens, R. Toombs, and J. B. Thompson. The only Whig member from New England who signed this paper was Samuel A. Eliot, of Boston. Mr. Appleton, his successor, alone of the Massachusetts delegation, voted that the Compromise, includ
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)
called a bear garden. The scene between Benton and Foote was then freshly in mind. It had seen better days, aheir devotion to slavery (like mason of Virginia and Foote of Mississippi), did not avoid him, as the Boston Whday of the session, when he was still on the ocean, Foote of Mississippi, at the instance of Webster the Secreence and freedom of another. Several senators—Cass, Foote, Dawson, and Shields—congratulated their new associamost wholly to the Southern senators, those who like Foote supported the Compromise as the best thing for the Ss proposed; and, as already suggested, the debate on Foote's resolution not only ended at an early day, but whi Dec. 8, 1851: The Southerners are in high quarrel,— Foote and Butler at red-hot words. The scene was threatenbeen disinclined to interfere with the discussion of Foote's Compromise resolutions, which had been with a singhere was some expectation that Sumner would speak on Foote's resolution, but his failure to do so did not draw <