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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 40: outrages in Kansas.—speech on Kansas.—the Brooks assault.—1855-1856. (search)
rings, while doubtless increasing the enthusiasm in his favor, was now by no means essential to the continuity of his public career. The Legislature of Massachusetts, meeting in January, 1857, and proceeding with more than usual despatch to the election, hastened to express in authentic form the voice of the State in approval of its senator. The House, voting viva voce, gave Sumner three hundred and thirty-three votes to twelve for all others, of which three were for Winthrop, two for N. J. Lord, and seven for as many other persons. The Senate gave Sumner every vote. An election so unanimous, at a period of great political heat and controversy, is without parallel in the United States. The public journals of the country contrasted the incidents of Sumner's two elections,—the last one unanimous and prompt, the first after a long contest and a close final vote, when his chief support was a band of Free Soilers, and when he entered the Senate with only two to co-operate with him.