The recent
outrageous expedition against Cuba1 has dishonored us before the
world. My own impression is that it [Clay's Compromise] will pass through the
Senate; and this is founded on two things: first, Clay is earnest and
determined that it shall pass; he is using all his talents as leader; and,
secondly, the ultra-Southern opposition, I think, will at last give way and
support it, at least enough to pass the measure. If Webster had willed it, he
might have defeated it.
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1 The second attempt of Lopez.
SOURCE: Edward L.
Pierce, Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner, Vol. 3, p. 216
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