Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Richard Henry Dana Jr. to Senator Charles Sumner, December 11, 1851

Your kind reception at Washington is not attributable, sure enough, to the influence of our Boston oligarchy; but their power does not extend much beyond the pavements and Nahant. They are bigoted without being fanatical.

SOURCE: Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner, Vol. 3, p. 264

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