It is evident that
there will be a new Cabinet soon. I have for several weeks thought that Webster
would be Secretary of State, but I have some reason now to doubt whether Taylor
would take him. He wishes to get out of the Senate, and I think desires to be
Secretary. He can hardly dare confront the people of Massachusetts at the next
election, as he must do if he is a candidate for re-election. The disaffection
towards him among leading Whigs of the North, particularly of Massachusetts, is
very strong. To me his present position seems deplorable. With all his majestic
powers, he is a traitor to a holy cause. Franklin Dexter says strongly that he
has deliberately committed a crime.
SOURCE: Edward L.
Pierce, Memoir and Letters of Charles
Sumner, Vol. 3, p. 214
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