Seward has just come
to my desk, and his first words were, “What a magnificent speech Wilson made to
Kossuth! I have read nothing for months which took such hold of me.”1
I cannot resist telling you of this, and adding the expression of my sincere
delight in what you said. It was eloquent, wise, and apt. I am glad of this
grand reception. Massachusetts does honor to herself in thus honoring a
representative of freedom. The country is for Kossuth; the city is
against him. The line is clearly run.
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1 Wilson was then president of the
Massachusetts Senate.
SOURCE: Edward L.
Pierce, Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner, Vol. 3, p. 272
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