The antislavery
agitation which it was hoped to hush by the recent laws is breaking out afresh.
It will not be hushed. Mr. Webster is strong in Boston, but not in
Massachusetts. Out of the city he is weak. It is difficult to say now how the
elections this autumn will go. I think that everywhere the antislavery
sentiment will get real strength. The odious Fugitive Slave law furnishes an
occasion for agitation. It has shocked the people of New England. . . . I have
had a pleasant day or two with Prescott at Pepperell, and he has told me of his
English pleasures.
SOURCE: Edward L.
Pierce, Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner, Vol. 3, p. 218
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