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He was elected
Senator of the United States by one branch of the Massachusetts
Legislature when the term of Elijah H. Mills expired, March
3, 1827. There can be no doubt that if he had consented he
would also have been elected by the other house. Mr. Webster
was chosen at the next Session. But before he was elected
he wrote very strongly urging Mr. Lincoln to accept the office.
He said in his letter dated May 22, 1827:
"I beg to say that I see no way in which the public good
can be so well promoted as by your consenting to go to the
Senate. This is my own clear and decided opinion; it is
the opinion, equally clear and decided, of intelligent and
patriotic friends here, and I am able to add that it is also
the decided opinion of all those friends elsewhere, whose
judgment in such matters we should naturally regard. I believe
I may say, without violating confidence, that it is the wish,
entertained with some earnestness, of our friends at Washington,
that you should consent to be Mr. Mills's successor. I need
hardly add after what I have said that this is my own wish.


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