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SENATOR SUMNBR's LETTER 7oF AccRpT.
ANoR. Speaker Phelps in the House Of Repre-
sentatives Friday morning, stated that he had
received the following letter from the Hon,
Charles sumner, accepting the election to the
U. ). Senate for six years from the 4th March
next, which was read. The letter is earnest
and sanguine in its tone, and will be read
with peculiar interest: ~ .,..5-.
felIoo- Citizens of the Senate and House Of Re.
Personalities. N sd iSsifrI -
1 have been officially notified that the peo.
pie of Massachusetts, by concurrent votes of
both branches of the Legislature, have CHARGED
me with the duty of representing them in the
Senate of the United States for another term
OF six years on the expiration Of that which
now Ihold. This renewed trust accept with
gratitude enhanced by the peculiar eireum-
stances under which it has been bestowed.
But, far beyond every personal qualification is
the delight of knowing that the people of
Massachusetts,, forgetting ancientTparty hates,
have at least come together in fraternal SUD-
port of. a sacred cause, compared with which
the fate of any public servant ssef small &C.
count.
When frst selected for this eminent trust
l was a stranger to all official life. 4Untried
in public affairs was taken up and placed,
without effort of my own, and even without
antecedent aspiration, in the station where,
after an experience of six years, you now
with spontaneous unanimity bid me remain.
About to commence fresh term of service, /
turn with honest pride to that which is about
to close, while greet anew the duties and
responsibilities OF my position; hoping that,
by conscientious endeayors, 1 may do some-
thing IN the future better than in the past,
and mindful that he who girdeth on his arnor
should not boast himself as he who putteth it
off. .is'29a nodu sa4f 81 s
The duties Of public servant are not al
ways conspicuous. Much of his time is, alb.
sorded in cares which, if not obscure, are lit
tie calculated to attract public attention.
Massachusetts justly expects that no such in.
terests shall be neglected. But by solemn
resolutions of her Legislature, by the votes of
her people, and by the voice Of her history, o
Massachusetts especially enjoins upon her
representatives to see that, at all hazards, and
whatever else may suffer, freedom shall pre-
vail. Let me not neglect this Injunction
Alike by sympathy with the slave and by
determination to tree ourselves from wretched
thraldom, we are also summoned to the effort
now organized for tho emancipation of the Ma
ttoaat Government from a degrading influence
hostile to civilization-which, wherever it
shows itself, even at distance, is brutal, vul-
gar and mean, and constitutes an unnatural
tyranny calculated to arouse the generous in
~AtoN%eNsAS+A
who is not ready to say in his heart that there
is no god, can doubt the certain result. But
this result, like every great good, can be ac-
complshed only by well directed effort. I
know something of the labor and trial which
such service imposes also know something
OF the satisfaction which it affords giving 10
all who truly espouse it a serener Joy than
anything in Office or honor. In the weary
prostration of months, from which have now
happily risen, my sharpest pang came out Of
my enforced separation from the cause which
was so dear to me; and now my chief joy ia
IN the assurance that to this service NAV
dedicate the vigorous health which, through
medical care and the kindly ministration Of
nature, am permitted to expect. In this
well-founded assurance, l welcome the trust
which has been again conferred upon me,
while once more bespeak the candid iudg-
ment of my fellow-citizens, and once more
invoke the guardianship Of benignat Provi-
dence. have the honor to be, fellow. citizens,
with grateful regard, Y H
Your faithful Servant and Senator, 3
ieai 4atli CHARLES SUMNER.
~ Rnston ODD Ianuarv 1897