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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)
ing to the ardor for scholarly pursuits in a mind enriched with the best learning of other lands, and capable of pouring its accumulated treasures into forms of the most commanding eloquence. They exchanged all sorts of friendly offices. Felton read Sumner's addresses in manuscript, was always ready to test his classical references, and received him at his house to dine or lodge with a welcome such as awaited no other guest. Sumner was fond of Felton's children, and remembered them with Christmas gifts. Felton, however, with all his liking for Sumner's personal qualities, had no natural affinity for his philanthropic aspirations. This second marriage To a daughter of Thomas G. Cary, of Boston. Ante, p. 106. brought him into close relations with the conservative and compromising Whigs; and in march, 1850, he went heartily into the Webster movement. He signed the letter approving the speech of March 7, and undertook the defence of Webster's Latin quotations in articles which