WASHINGTON, Feb. 14, 1851.
MY DEAR SUMNER, — Remember it is the darkest time just before day. I have long had very serious apprehensions about the result this session; that is, the end of the beginning: but you must now apply to yourself the counsel you gave last autumn to me; that is, you must now take the field, and vindicate your cause before the people; not yourself, — that I do not say, — but the CAUSE. If you do not prevail now, Massachusetts goes over to Hunkerdom. This may the gods avert! . . .
Yours ever,
HORACE MANN.
SOURCE: Mary Tyler Peabody Mann, Life of Horace Mann, p. 347
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