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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 35: Massachusetts and the compromise.—Sumner chosen senator.—1850-1851. (search)
be the best thing for me. The writer expressed the hope that his first speech in the Senate would be on foreign affairs. The two entered Craigie House,—the writer's first meeting with the poet and his wife; and leaving shortly, he walked, thoughtful, and never so happy before, to his lodgings. With much joy and hope the youth of Massachusetts greeted the election of the new senator. Sumner wrote to Theodore Parker, Printed in Weiss's Life of Theodore Parker, vol. II. p. 107. April 19, 1851:— May you live a thousand years, always preaching the truth of Fast Day! On the rendition of Sims, a fugitive slave. That sermon is a noble effort. It stirred me to the bottom of my heart; at times softening me almost to tears, and then again filling me with rage. I wish it could be read everywhere throughout the land. . . . I have had no confidence from the beginning, as I believe you know, in our courts. I was persuaded that with solemn form they would sanction the great en