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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 44: Secession.—schemes of compromise.—Civil War.—Chairman of foreign relations Committee.—Dr. Lieber.—November, 1860– April, 1861. (search)
om any other member of the committee. It is likely that they were drawn by Seward, who had moved the amendment to the Constitution in the Senate committee of Thirteen.—one a constitutional amendment excluding any amendment of the Constitution concerning slavery unless proposed by a slave State and adopted by all the States; and the other the admission of New Mexico as a State without restricting her action as to slavery. Mrs. Seward, who had decided views of her own, wrote to Sumner from Auburn: I am grieved and surprised by Mr. Adams's proposition to give New Mexico to slavery. Three hundred thousand square miles of God's earth is a high price for the questionable advantage of a union with the slave States. The constitutional amendment proposed a new safeguard for slavery, and put the slaveholding interest in a superior position in the government. It was a late day in the history of civilization to travel in that direction. An historian calls this proposition, as moved by Sewa