You have doubtless
read Webster's speech. To me it seems a heartless apostasy; its whole tone is
low and bad, while its main points are untenable and unsound. I have been glad
to observe the moral indignation which has been aroused against it. The
merchants of Boston subscribe to it, it is their wont to do such things; but
Governor Briggs expressed himself against it in conversation with me, as warmly
as I do, and said that the people of Massachusetts would not sanction it. David
Henshaw says it is the cunningest and best bid for the Presidency that Webster
has ever made. I should not be astonished if he were Secretary of State within
a short time. No man can tell how this contest is to terminate. It is clear
that there is to be a good deal of speaking before any important votes. I
anticipate much from my friend Chase in the Senate. He is an able lawyer, and
of admirable abilities otherwise.
Saturday, May 27, 2023
Charles Sumner to George Sumner, March 18, 1850
SOURCE: Edward L.
Pierce, Memoir and Letters of Charles
Sumner, Vol. 3, p. 213
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