If you are conscious
that you can speak an effective word for Kossuth's Hungarian career, I should
regret not to have it done, though I commend you to the prudence of careful
preparation. Boston society, to which you allude, is of course the other way;
but your point of view will enable you to look with indifference upon its
criticisms. Remember this: while I counsel all caution and a proper reserve,
particularly at the beginning, I would not have you sail by the meridian of
Boston. Your own soul would rebuke you if you did.
SOURCE: Edward L.
Pierce, Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner, Vol. 3, p. 280
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