For one, I desire to thank you for declaring in the Senate that the petition from Boston, asking for any compromise to propitiate the South, did not represent the sentiment even of the city, but was signed by multitudes ignorantly and recklessly,--the left hand not knowing what the right hand did.
Sumner expressed gratitude for a Senate declaration that a Boston petition did not reflect the city's true sentiments.
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