We hear that Scott
is nominated at last. I tell you confidentially how Seward regards it. He
thinks that his friends have been defeated, that Scott is made to carry weight
which will probably defeat him, and that the campaign can have little interest
for the friends of our cause. He will take an opportunity, by letter or speech,
to extricate himself from the platform. Seward's policy is to stick to the Whig
party; no action of theirs can shake him off. But the cause of freedom he has
constantly at heart; I am satisfied of his sincere devotion to it. Major
Donaldson says that there is now no difference between the Whigs and Democrats;
their platforms, he says, are identical. This is the darkest day of our cause.
But truth will prevail. Are there any special words of your grandfather against
slavery anywhere on record, in tract or correspondence? If there are, let me have
them. I wish you were here.
SOURCE: Edward L.
Pierce, Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner, Vol. 3, p. 281
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