My aim, while
attending to all the duties of my post, will be to do something to secure a
hearing for our cause; and I wish in advance to bespeak the counsels of our
friends, though I feel that in the last moment much must be left to my own
personal discretion. As a stranger to the Senate and to all legislative bodies,
I regard it to be my first duty to understand the body in which I have a seat
before rushing into its contests.
SOURCE: Edward L.
Pierce, Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner, Vol. 3, p. 252
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