[Court Street, April
25, 1851.]
MY DEAR SUMNER, — I
cannot congratulate you on your election, because, with my political
connections, that would be insincere; but I can and do say that I am glad that
the lot has fallen upon you, since it must needs fall on one of your party. So
far as your elevation shall prove a source of increased happiness and
usefulness to you, I shall rejoice in it. No one will watch with more interest
your career than I shall, or be more pleased with any accession to your solid
and enduring reputation. I shall always judge of your sayings and doings in a
candid and just spirit. You have now before you a noble career. May you walk in
it with a statesman's steps, and more than gratify the good wishes of your
friends, and more than disappoint the ill wishes of your enemies.
SOURCE: Edward L.
Pierce, Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner, Vol. 3, p. 250
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