Parker is too
impatient. If by chance or ignorance of the currents here I have got into the
rapids, my friends should not abandon me. In any event, my course is a
difficult one. A Hunker politician told me that he thought I assumed a greater
responsibility than any other person here. I know this; but I know also my
singleness of purpose, and I know that I am in earnest. The 'Atlas' is false
when it says I could have made the speech, — utterly false
SOURCE: Edward L.
Pierce, Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner, Vol. 3, p. 291
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