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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 24: Slavery and the law of nations.—1842.—Age, 31. (search)
ded. Is not this a good deal for me to say, where Adams is in question? So peace smiles upon us! Lord Ashburton has left with all manner of gratulations on his head. The correspondence, so far as I have seen it, is delightful: it is better, for my palate, than the choicest wine. Nobody ever wrote despatches like Webster. This is owing to his large head! I can see that large head, like an immense battering-ram, behind every sentence he writes. To Lord Morpeth, Kingston. Boston, Sept. 6, 1842. my dear Morpeth,—Lord Ashburton Sumner met him while he was in Boston. regretted that he could not communicate with you. He could have offered you a passage in the Warspite. I fear from what I hear that concessions have been made by Lord Ashburton on the Creole matter which, however agreeable to the South, will hardly satisfy Lord Palmerston. I understand that Lord Ashburton engages, for his government, that the local law of the West Indies shall not in future be applied to Amer