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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)
to his official oath, Sumner affirmed that he had sworn to support the Constitution as he understood it, not as it was understood by others or interpreted by any authority, and cited as explicitly sustaining his position the declarations of President Jackson and James Buchanan, and turning to Mason and Butler, asked them if they dissented from it. But though he paused for a reply, none came. He then said:— Now, in this interpretation of the Constitution I may be wrong; others may differas much an utterance of honest feeling previously cherished towards you, through whatever influences kept back from expression, as it was of a feeling then first excited in your favor by knockings at the heart that could not be resisted. William Jackson, many years before a member of Congress, now an old man. wrote, July 1:— Your contest in the Senate brought vividly to my recollection similar scenes which many years since I saw J. Q. Adams passing through. And now how miserably insi