WASHINGTON, Sept.
21, 1850.
MY DEAR SIR,— . . .
You have seen how Websterism overrides everything in Boston. A large portion of
the voters in my district belong in Boston, and have no sympathies or interests
but in Boston, and only come out into the country to sleep and vote. They are
exciting an opposition to me, to the extent of their influence and Webster's
money. Were it not for this, I should long ago have positively declined to be a
candidate again. The posture of affairs may compel me to withhold the execution
of this purpose. . . . I have no heart to write a word on the course of things
in Congress this session. The slaveholders have overthrown principles, and put
them to rout as Napoleon did armies.
SOURCE: Mary Tyler
Peabody Mann, Life of Horace Mann, p. 331-2
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