St. Louis, June 13, 1853.
Dear Sumner: I
enclose you a part of the St. Louis Democrat, in which you will find a part of
the correspondence which will interest you at least as showing that in this
Slave State, at least, there is no such prejudice as prevents a recognition,
and at a rate vastly beyond their value of services rendered by an Antislavery
man. I find in it a most unexpected but most gratifying result of my action
last winter, which I prize the more for its ultimate bearing on our great
Cause. You would be surprised to find what liberality of sentiment prevails
here and especially among the democrats. Most of those I have met avow
themselves antislavery men, — some of them most decidedly so.
I am here on private matters; trying to serve two widowed
ladies, one of them my niece the other my sister-in-law. I expect to leave for
Chicago tomorrow.
Perhaps our cause will be benefited by the republication of
this correspondence in the Boston papers. The Commonwealth and Traveller will
cheerfully reprint; will not others?
Give my best regards to Wilson and other friends.
Yours truly and faithfully,
[SALMON P. CHASE.]
SOURCE: Diary and correspondence of Salmon P. Chase, Annual
Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1902, Vol.
2, p. 251
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