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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 44: Secession.—schemes of compromise.—Civil War.—Chairman of foreign relations Committee.—Dr. Lieber.—November, 1860– April, 1861. (search)
Conflict, vol. I. p. 360; Weed's Life, vol. II. pp. 303, 313. George E. Baker wrote to Sumner, December 3, from Albany, that no influential man agreed with Mr. Weed's view, and that it had no support in the rural districts. The Boston Journal, Jan. 9, 17, 1861, was not opposed to the restoration of the Missouri Compromise line and the nonprohibition of slavery south of 36° 30'. Greeley afterwards questioned the wisdom of the overtures made by himself and Weed. American Conflict, vol. I. p. 's Works, vol. v. pp. 497, 498. Mr. Adams, in letters to his constituents, treated as an unrepealed and unrescinded contract Letter to E. L. Pierce, Jan. 1. 1861. Mr. Adams's action was reviewed by E. L. Pierce in the Boston Atlas and Bee, Jan. 9, 1861; and the same journal published a leader, February 19, concerning it. a clause of the Compromise of 1850 which provided for the admission of New Mexico with or without slavery, as its constitution prescribed at the time of admission. But the