A pleasant dinner,
at the close of which we heard the news of Sumner's election. In the evening
came Lowell and Gurowski and Palfrey, and Sumner himself to escape from the
triumph and be quiet from all the noise in the streets of Boston. He is no more
elated by his success than he has been depressed by the failure heretofore, and
evidently does not desire the office. Не says he would resign now if any one of
the same sentiments as himself could be put in his place.
SOURCE: Edward L.
Pierce, Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner, Vol. 3, p. 245
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