The Free Soilers carried all but six, I think, of the fifty-two towns in that county.
I was in correspondence with the leading men in every one of them, and could at any time summon them to Worcester, if there were need.
We acquired by the Mexican War nearly six hundred thousand square miles of territory.

When the treaty was signed, the struggle began between freedom and slavery for the control of this imperial domain.

No reader of the history of Massachusetts will doubt her interest in such a struggle.

Three things stood in the way of lovers of liberty in the Commonwealth.
First, the old attachment to the Whig party; Second, her manufacturing interests; and Third, her devotion to Daniel Webster.
Massachusetts was a Whig State.

There were many things which tended to give that great political organization a permanent hold on her people.