I have one moment
for you, and only this. My speech was an honest utterance of my convictions on
two important points. I pleaded at the same time for Kossuth and for what I
know to be the true policy of our country. I told him in a long private
interview the day before he left Washington, that if he had made at Castle
Garden the speech he made at the Congressional banquet, he would have united
the people of this country for him and his cause; but that he had disturbed the
peace-loving and conservative by his demands. My desire was to welcome him
warmly and sympathetically, but at the same time to hold fast to the pacific
policy of our country.
SOURCE: Edward L.
Pierce, Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner, Vol. 3, p. 271
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