Identifier: statesmen00inbroo (find matches)
Title: Statesmen
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Brooks, Noah, 1830-1903
Subjects: Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850 Benton, Thomas Hart, 1782-1858 Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872 Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874 Tilden, Samuel J. (Samuel Jones), 1814-1886 Blaine, James Gillespie, 1830-1893 Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881 Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908 Statesmen
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
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prey, em-ploy his congenial bloodhounds, and exult in hissuccessful game, but into Massachusetts he mustnot come. Referring to the often-repeatedstatement that the slavery question was settled,he said : Yes, settled, settled, that is the word.Nothing, sir, can be settled which is not right;nothing can be settled which is against free-dom; nothing can be settled which is againstdivine law. God, nature, and all the holy senti-ments of the heart repudiate any such false, seem-ing settlement. An election for United States Senator fromthe State of. Massachusetts was now impending,and this speech placed Sumner foremost amongthe Free Soilers as a candidate. The Legislaturemet early in January, 1851, with Henry Wilson,Free Soiler, President of the Senate, and Nathan-iel P. Banks, Jr., Democrat, Speaker of theHouse. The Free Soilers and the Democratsformed a coalition, under the terms of which theDemocrats were to secure the greater part of theState offices, the Governorship being about to be
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The Boston Home of Mr. Sumner, at 20 Hancock Street. 244 STATESMEN filled by the Legislature, and the Free Soilers tobe awarded the United States Senator. Thisagreement naturally roused great wrath amongthe Whigs, who saw that Websters place in theUnited States Senate was to pass out of theircontrol. There was some delay, however, incarrying out the provisions of the covenant,and it was not until after a contest which lastedmore than two months that Sumner was finallyelected. Robert Rantoul, Jr., was the candidate of someof the Democrats who held themselves alooffrom the coalition. Robert C. Winthrop, whohad been appointed by the Governor to fill thetemporary vacancy caused by Websters resign-ing his seat in the Senate to take a place in theCabinet of President Fillmore, was the choiceof the Whigs. During the long balloting forSenator, there was one day found among theballots in the box one bearing this eccentric in-scription : Not a truck-and-dicker coon,Not a man in the moon ;Get Su

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