Letter from Charles Sumner to William Henry Seward, November 15, 1853

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Letter from Charles Sumner to William Henry Seward, November 15, 1853
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Date:1853-11-15

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Letter from Charles Sumner to William Henry Seward, November 15, 1853

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sender: Charles Sumner
Birth: 1811-01-06  Death: 1874-03-11

location: Boston, MA

receiver: William Seward
Birth: 1801-05-16  Death: 1872-10-10

location: Unknown
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transcription: mec 

revision: crb 2017-05-01

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Boston Nov 15th ‘53
My dear Governor,
I was glad to hear from
you; but should have been
better pleased, had you
told me something of your wife
Birth: 1805-09-24 Death: 1865-06-21
.
The new Constitution is
defeated. This is a ca-
lamity to the Liberal
Cause. Of this I do
not doubt.
Schouler
Birth: 1814-12-13 Death: 1872-10-24
, who was a
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working member of the Con-
vention, sustained the new
Constitution. Edward Everett
Birth: 1794-04-11 Death: 1865-01-15
,
who was not a member
of the Convention, opposed it.
On the adjournment of the
Convention, the country
Whigs were in favor of
it; the leading Whig
paper out of Boston openly
declared that it was “better
than the old.” But the
Boston cabal, whose house
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is State St, & whose breath
is Silver Grey Websterian,
rallied the Whig party
against it, & they have
triumphed. This triumph
will continue the domina-
tion of Mass. in the heads
of the Boston financiers &
politicians.
The ostensible ground has
been the alleged inequality
in the representative system;
but here the new is an
improvement on the old.
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I have spoken some 18 times
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y large
audiences. I think I have ad-
dressed more persons than any
other have ever before been ad-
dressed in the same space of
time by one man in Mass.
The meeting at Faneuil Hall
was larger than any there
for years.
I am weary, & hope to leave
to-day for New York, partly
for rest, & partly to see the
Crystal Palace, which I have
not yet seen. I shall be gone
only 2 or 3 days, & expect to
be in Washington on Saturday
before Congress. Regards to Mrs Seward
Ever & ever yrs,
Charles Sumner