The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-04-28
MIR. Charles summer.

fDANIEL WKBsrER's Letter to the Union Meeting
at Westchs,ter.
Mr.. Charles Summer.
Without intending to convey false impress
sion, the Union of yesterday by implication
exhibits the recent result of the Senatorial cleo
ton in Massachusetts, as a WING outrage. We
copy the paragraph in which this gloss is given
to it, that we may correct it:
ave commend the following notices of this
Senator to those of our readers who may not have
borne In their recollection his antecedents. It il
gratifying to see, from the Boston Post, that there
were twenty seven national Democrats who could
not be swayed from the platform which they
Il have always stood. They have gained the re-
spect and gratitude of their brethren in all the
States Of the Union, and we may apply to them
the sentiment of great man in respect TO Wash
ington-that time, which il continually washing
away the fabrics of factious men, but brightens
the imperishable works of the real patriot.
This Mr.. Sumner is the Wing who refused to
support General Taylor because he was not
Wing enough. He admits that he 10 the child of
whiggery. but his ambition has been TO distin-
guish his paternity by higher cultivation of the
'patrimony left him. II is thus that error begets
the instrument ofits fall. II 10 thus that the
'gilded and fashioned. tumbles into ruins when
the rains begin to fall and the floods to wash.
Let the true Democracy of the land take warning
from this sad example, and adhere more strongly
than ever to those cardinal principles which form
their platform
Mr.. SUMNER, we aPPrehend, was never
known as WING. 1t is possible that he may
sometimes formerly have voted the Vino
ticket, but he was never known as party man,
and was never nominated as WING candidate
His first appearance as candidate was in the
character Of Free soiler, in opposition to Mr..
WINTHROP, for the representation Of Boston in
the lower House of Congress. When the Dem
ocratic Freesoil organization in New York
brought out Mr.. VAN buren, in opposition to
General TAYLOR and General CAss, Mr.. SUM
NER went with them. In that Democratic Abo-
lition connexion he has remained to the present
day He was instrumental in making the
bargain by which the Democracy Of Mas
sachusetts were sold to -soil-the re-
ciprocal considerations being the Governors
chair for Mr.. boutwell,, and the SEN
torial seat for Mr.. SUMNER. Igf this bargain
the body of the Democratic party of the State
were implicated. 1t was a Democratic trans
action-though we see that frenty-seren Dem
&C ratio members of the House in Massachusetts
voted to the last against Mr.. SUMNER In this
connexion we should state that the Boston Post,
the most influential and reliable Democratic
journal in New England, has taken strong
ground in favor Of the twenty seven anti-SuM-
NER men, who are denounced by other presses
as traitors to the Democratic paliy.
The VINO party cast their votes to man
against Mr.. SUMNER. 1t would seem. unne-
cessaryto make this statement, But the attempt
has been made to fasten a portion of the ig-
nominy of this transaction on the shoulders of
the Wines.
Another impression, very general here, we
desire to correct. 1t is largely believed in these
quarters, from his violent conduct, his infam-
matory speeches, and his undisguised DISREGARD
Of the law and the Constitution, that Mr.. SUM
sER is sort ola vulgar ruffian, Of bad personal
associations, who would burn houses and cut
throats in the dark. This is altogether erro-
neous, though we must admit that Mr.. SUM
NER's Faneuil Hall speeches have given
some color to this idea, and that his peace
Orations have failed to remove it. Mr.. SUM
NER is simply crazy on the abolition question,
like poor Mistress FOLSOM and WENDELL
PHILLIPS, and the other people Of that school
in Boston, who manage to keep out Of straight
jackets and iron cages more by good luck than
any thing else. He was educated at Harvard
College, and pursued his professional studies at
the law school of Cambridge, then under the
charge ofMr. Justice STORY, whose professional
teachings do not seem TO have inspired his pu
pill with any very great regard for his views
on that branch of the Constitution which con-
templates the surrender of fugitives from labor.
He subsequently travelled awhile in Europe,
and since his return has been chiefly occupied
with his successful attempts to identify himself
with the negro question-from views that we
at one time supposed to be to some degree phi
lanthropic, but which the baseness Of his recent
political implications leaves us no reason to
douSt have been always as mean and grovel-
ling as they now show themselves.
Mr. SUMMERS position in the Senate will he
very like that of Mr.. RASrouL, who received
the cold shoulder from nearly every member of
that body, excepting two or three who stood in
consimii cnsu-traitors like him TO their party
and their country. =
We learn from the Union that the Hon
CAVE JOHNSON (late Postmaster GENERALLY anc