Election of Charles Sumner

“On Thursday of last week, Charles Sumner was elected U. S. Senator, having received 193 votes out of the 286  — the precise number necessary to a choice…. Friday, at noon, a salute of 100 guns was fired on the Common, in honor of the Free Soil victory.”  (Liberator, May2, 1851)

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