Whatever may be the
result of our proceedings, I am desirous that you should know my position. I
have never directly or indirectly suggested a desire for the place, or even a
willingness to take it. I shall not generally be believed if I say I do not
desire it. My aims and visions are in other directions, in more quiet fields.
To sundry committees of Hunker Democrats, who have approached me to obtain
pledges and promises with regard to my future course in the State, or in the
Senate if I should go there, I have replied that the office must seek me, and
not I the office, and that it must find me an absolutely independent man. The
Hunkers, Whigs, and Democrats are sweating blood to-day. You perceive that all
the Hunker press, representing Cassism and Websterism, are using every effort
to break up our combination.
SOURCES: Edward L.
Pierce, Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner, Vol. 3, p. 239
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