Your letter to the “Advertiser”
appeared in that paper last Saturday, the 6th.1 The paper is
sometimes known as “the respectable,” affecting as it does the respectability
of Boston.
I am glad to
perceive that there is a real hearty difference among the Whigs here with
regard to Mr. Webster. The Governor and a large number of prominent gentlemen
some of them in Boston, but more in the country—are earnest against his speech,
and in private express their opinions.2 That long list of names
attached to the letter to Mr. Webster shows some remarkable absences,
particularly noticeable by all familiar with Massachusetts politics. Our
Supreme Court gave judgment yesterday the colored school case against my
argument made last November. I lament this very much. Is everything going
against us?
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1 In reply to the Boston
"Advertiser's" criticisms on Jay's previous paper on Webster.
2 Governor Briggs was without courage, and
took no public position against Webster.
SOURCE: Edward L.
Pierce, Memoir and Letters of Charles
Sumner, Vol. 3, p. 213-4
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