I notice the attack
on me in the 'Liberator.' If need be, I shall show backbone in
resisting the pressure even of friends. Had I uttered a word for Drayton and
Sayres in the Senate, I should have dealt a blow at them which they well
understood. At present nothing can be done for them in the Senate. I have
presented their case to the President, and am sanguine in believing that they
will be pardoned. But of this not a word at present.
SOURCE: Edward L.
Pierce, Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner, Vol. 3, p. 278
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