WASHINGTON, April, 1851.
MY DEAR SUMNER, — Laus Deo!
Good, better, best, better yet! By the necessity of the case, you are now to be
a politician, — an honest one. Scores have asked whether you would be true. I have
underwritten to the amount of forty reputations.
Yours truly,
HORACE MANN.*
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* This note was
written on occasion of Mr. Sumner's election to the Senate.
SOURCE: Mary Tyler
Peabody Mann, Life of Horace Mann, p. 348
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