Hillard and Sumner

• American

George Hillard and Charles Sumner attorneys was the Boston legal practice of George Stillman Hillard and Charles Sumner. The partnership dissolved when Sumner was elected to the US Senate. Over time, their political views grew more divergent. Sumner became the most forceful abolitionist in the Senate, but Hillard remained a more conservative Whig. While Hillard believed that slavery was wrong, he sided politically with Senator Daniel Webster and was not willing to risk the dissolution of the nation to end slavery. - AsNotedIn