Sunday, August 18, 2024

Senator Charles Sumner to George Sumner, June 17, 1851

You ought to be a diplomatist. Another motive to me for discontent with my present position is the fear that I may stand in your way. It would be difficult for an Administration to appoint the brother of one so obnoxious as myself without pledges or explanations, which you could not stoop to give. If I were a private man, there would be no influence against you on this score.1
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1 George Sumner did not sympathize with his brother's earnestness on the slavery and peace questions.

SOURCE: Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner, Vol. 3, p. 252

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