You will read the
proceedings at Washington. The bluster of the South is, I think, subsiding,
though as usual the North is frightened, and promises to give way. I hope to
God they will stand firm. There is a small body at Washington who will not
yield, the Free Soilers. Hale sustains hinself with great address and ability,
but Chase is a person of a higher order of capacity. As to Webster, Emerson
calls him a dead elephant !
SOURCE: Edward L.
Pierce, Memoir and Letters of Charles
Sumner, Vol. 3, p. 212
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