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September 23rd, 1846 AD (search for this): chapter 4
ld public meetings in different parts of the State to protest against the admission of Texas as a slave State; and appealing to the mass of voters, they forwarded a remonstrance to Congress with sixty thousand signatures. From this agitation the manufacturers and many of the Whig politicians kept aloof, excusing themselves from joining in the remonstrance, taking no part in the meetings, and discouraging others from participating in the protests. John Quincy Adams said in his Diary, Sept. 23, 1846, vol. XII. p. 274, There are two divisions in the party,—one based upon public principle, and the other upon manufacturing and commercial interests. Mr. Lawrence and Mr. Appleton, who stood at the head of the manufacturing interest, replied to the committee which requested their co-operation, that the question had been settled, and further agitation was a waste of effort on the impossible; and the latter saw fit to make an offensive and uncalled — for thrust at the abolition movement, w
October 25th (search for this): chapter 4
ou do not. On the contrary, I know of no good which may result from a further discussion of these topics between us; and whatever may be our differences of opinion or action, I beg you to believe me very truly your friend. Sumner published, October 25, his open letter to Winthrop, who was then a candidate for re-election, in which he set forth with great earnestness the injustice of the war against Mexico, the falsehood contained in the preamble of the war bill, the responsibility for the mey nature; of generous impulses, but without firmness of character,--unable to keep the heights his soul was competent to gain. In the summer he fell under adverse influence,--that of Schenck, as Giddings thought. His last letter to Sumner was October 25, in which he discountenanced an independent movement, whatever action the national Whig convention might take, and in which, as well as in an address to his constituents, he showed signs of wavering, and put the no territory from Mexico issue a
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