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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)
d, John B. Alley, and Horace E. Smith, which was widely distributed among the voters. They held meetings in all parts of the State, not neglecting the smallest and remotest towns. They sent out not only their eminent speakers,—Sumner, Palfrey, Wilson, Dana, Burlingame,—but a number of young men, some fresh from college, whose zeal and enthusiasm were effective. The writer was one of the Free Soil speakers. having become a voter that year; and with him was his chum at the Law School, John Winslow, since a distinguished lawyer of Brooklyn, N. Y. The details of organization were carefully watched by Wilson, Keyes, Bird, and Alley, who conferred daily, and who were assisted by practical and sagacious men in all sections of the State. The pendency of a fugitive-slave case in October, in Boston, the first under the new Act, added to the excitement. A few days before the election Sumner made a speech in Faneuil hall, in some respects his most effective one before the people. Certai