Washington, December 14, 1859.
My Dear Sir:
Pray, if you can, talk with Mr. Weed about Mrs. B.'s case. Twice I have tried
to see him, but he has now left town.
I am in constant communication with members on this matter,
and find response. But as yet no person is fixed upon in whose name Mrs. B. can
be represented. Perhaps this cannot be done till after the election of Speaker.
I have always insisted that no arrangement should be
permitted which did not recognize Mrs. B.
Tell the Count that I always welcome him and all that he can
say. But I have no personal griefs to dwell on. I have suffered. But what is
all this compared with the cause? On sait assez qu'on ne doit guere parler de
sa femme; mais on ne sait pas assez qu’ on ne doit guรจre parler de soi. This is Rochefoucauld, and the
Count will agree in it.
Ever sincerely yours,
Charles Sumner.
SOURCE: James Shepherd Pike, First Blows of the
Civil War: The Ten Years of Preliminary Conflict in the United States from 1850
to 1860, p. 454
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