Mr.Fessenden and Mr.Sumner were never cordial.

Members of the same party, supporters of the same general measures, with perfect appreciation and with profound respect each for the other, it seemed as impossible to unite them cordially, as in earlier days it was to unite Adams and Hamilton in the ranks of the Federalists.
-- Mr.Fessenden had maintained a brilliant reputation for a long period.

When Mr.Webster, at the height of his senatorial fame, made his celebrated tour through the Middle and Western States in 1837, he selected Mr.Fessenden, a young man of thirty, as his traveling companion,--selected him for his brilliancy, when he had choice of the brilliancy of all New England.

Mr.Garrett Davis, a senator from Kentucky, in his eulogy of Mr.Fessenden, referred to Mr.Webster's visit to that State, and described the warm greeting which Mr.
Fessenden received, the deep impression made upon him by Mr.Clay's hospitality at Ashland, and the impression which the young man made upon Mr.Clay, with whom he thenceforward became a marked favorite.
Mr.Davis and Mr.Fessenden met not long after as members of the House in the Twenty-seventh Congress (under Harrison and Tyler).

"Mr.
Fessenden at that time," said Mr.Davis, "was not only a young man of eminent ability and attainments, but he was warm-hearted, frank, honorable, eminently conscientious.