Washington, Feb. 23,1854.
My Dear Pierce:—
Your article had already attracted my attention and I had cut it out for Bailey
to print if he could find room, before receiving the Columbian with your
autograph which revealed to me the author. It is a capital article well
conceived and admirably expressed. It makes me regret that you propose to
devote yourself to the law rather than to the wider and widening field of
journalism. If you would devote yourself to the establishment of a paper in
Cincinnati, such as the N. York Times in New York, you would in ten or fifteen
years have a fortune in it besides wielding an almost uncomputable influence.
Sumner acquitted himself nobly — grandly. His speech
satisfied every expectation.1
We hope to kill the monster; but we want the voice of a
great meeting at Cincinnati.
Yours truly,
[SALMON P. CHASE.]
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1 Sumner’s speech of February 21, 1854.
SOURCE: Diary and correspondence of Salmon P. Chase, Annual
Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1902, Vol.
2, p. 258
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