Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1851-05-24
MR.. SENATOR SUMNER.

MR. SENATOR SUMNER.
Cour own free will, and with feeling of some
thinAike qualification, we published the other day,
wi,hut remark, the Letter Of acceptance, by Hon.
CHAlEs SUMNER, of his appointment of Senator OF
the lifted States from the State Of Massachusetts.
We ere induced to do so by the nationality OF Its
tone icing without any misgivings in regard to the
sincity of the sentiments which it expressed of
DEVON to the Union of obligation to study and
mainin with equal patriotic care the interests OF
all pts of our country to discouatenanee euery
e6oto loosen any Of those ties by aclich our fsl-
lousp of States is held in fraternai company,
anl o oppose especially all sectionalism, &c.
Heewe said to ourselves, we have the highest
eviace that, without our hoping such thing a
SenDr has been chosen by the good old Com
morealth of Massachusetts who will maintain the
Contution, and the Laws enacted in pursuance of
it,iall their authority. Let us be thankful to
Prudence for the unexpected aid which it has af-
forad the People of this Union in the struggle
in Mich they are now engaged against coalition
of Evolutionists and Disorganizers, who seem to
havsworn common hatred to the Constitution and
Comment of the United States. The same i'm
preston, to considerable extent, was made, we
bdise, on many Of the friends Of the Union south
Of lew England, by the perusal of this letter.
Sci was the impression naturally made upon the
mnds of those who had no personal acquaintance
WITH Mr.. SUMNER, and none of that particular
kowledge of his political history which might,
hid they possessed it, have modified theis judg-
nent as to the merits, and even the meaning of the
letter.
veH different estimate of Mr.. SUMMERS Let
ter is, However, as we now learn, entertained by
those who have watched the course of that gentle
man more closely than, at this distance from his
sphere of acton, we have had the ability, or even
the will, to 10. limitations to this effect have
reached us fnm quarters entitled to high respect
and conference.-the as, for example, the Boston
Daily ADVERTISE; from which paper we insert on
the preceding pge, exposition upon the subject,
which (says a respected correspondent ought to
be presented wherever his Address goes as ga
truthful commentary upon Mr.. SUMMERS character
istic assumptions
With all the Difference which we really pay to
the judgment of this correspondent, and to that Of
the journal referred to, we doubt whether we should
have transferred the Boston article to our columns
had it not been that the same mail by which it
reached our hands brought also, in the Boston
papers, another Letter from the Senator elect here
to suboned) of SO different character, especially
in the passage which we have placed in italics,
from that Of his Letter to the State Legislature, as
to satisfy us that we really did msapprehend the
professions in the latter Letter, and do now owe
to our readers to place them in possession Of the
views Of it entertained by sound Wings and Union
lists, in the city Of Boston, as embodied in the ar
ticle from the Advertiser.
LETTER OF Mr.. SUMNER,
In Reply to an Invitation to speak during the
present canuass Representatives to certain Congress
sonal Districts) IN Massachusetts.
BosroS, MAY 20, 1851.
MY DEAR SIR am sorry to be obliged to decline your
invitation 1t is not in my power mnse actively in the
canvass which now interests warmly all the friends Of
freedom but though my voice may be heard my heart
will be with you.
trust pains will be spared to secure the election of Mr.
PALrREr, the very able, honest and nAexble candidate of
party His character commands the admiration of all;
should command their Also No persons familiar
with the public sentiment among Of certain streets
in Bosoncan doubt that whatever may be the professions
Of politicians, his weknown opinions the vital question
Of the day find response in the bosoms Of overwhelming
majority Of the good people Of this Commonwealth HIS t
umph 'oith that Of Mr. RASrouI the adjoining District,
soH go far to consolidate the opposition in Massachusetts
against THE EXISTING WHIs NATIONAL ADMINISTRATIONS
Such men, while serving the Union Loyalty, and in the
spirit Of the Fathers will forget the true principles Of
the Constitution, according to which freedom and sa
very is national while slavery, and not freedom sectional
Ever faithfully yours,
CHARLES SUMNER
DR.. EsTE Howe, Chairman
ofMe Freesoa District Committee, Cambridge
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