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George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade) 1 1 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, chapter 10 (search)
wn share to the aid of the European and North American Railway, in which Maine was greatly interested. Sumner took the lead in supporting the claim, Feb. 24 and 25, March 1, 2, and 3. Congressional Globe, pp. 1518, 1519, 1579, 1585, 1718-1722, 1732-1734, 1840, 1854. and slowed to good advantage his capacity for a running debate, which would have been always conceded but for his too great proneness to prepare himself with elaborate speeches. C. W. Slack in the Boston Commonwealth, March 6, 1869. The debate brought together in pleasant relations Sumner and Fessenden in their encounter with the Western senators, who were led by Sherman and supported by Frelinghuysen and Conkling. The measure failed at this time, but was carried at a later session. Sumner made a full report on the subject April 1, 1869, and pressed the claim in the session of 1869-1870. June 6, July 6, 1870 (Congressional Globe, pp. 4146, 5293). Other subjects to which Sumner gave attention during this ses