The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-03-13
arm NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE.
Sc Yons, Mareh 10, ls57.

NV YoKs, March 10, 1857.
IL Charles Sumner, the senator from Massachusetts,
sled from this port on Monday last for HATre An at
,mut was made to create Juror in bic favor The re
mains Of the Young Mems Republican Ciuo held cor
snondeuee with him gave notice 10 the public OF their
,ro.e 10 40 honor to the senator him at the ship
nassw him afoat But the masses were ine1oraoe and
h, went TO sea with few maik bis exit The day oil his
martyrdom past the public mind has been baked and
goaded till il will bear more The Time TOT hAuona
s,ose Is at hand The Of good feeling has come
The conduct and position Of Mr. Sumner may teach dems
0oguss lesson lie took aboitonsn Ia Massachusetts, at
ia sood and wa, by it waited into the United States Senate
No rexard was had TO his fitness statesman for the
no The zane vote that elected Sumner would have sent
Theodore Parker Lloyd Carlson Abby Kelley or Lucy
S,op. 10 the Senate chamber And indeed OF those
very men who made Sumner Uni:ed States senator have
not been hack ward in publicly saying that 30 far as the
purpose Of sending Mr. Slmne TO the Senate was corcrn
edthe agita ion Of lbs slavery questioning two latter
would have do he the work mach better
Asan abolition agitator Mr.. Sumner received the ap
continent and o,k his sen in the Senate He las kept
his eve on the only topic that could sufficiently please his
constituents TO enable him gain aeeleciion and
th one theme has dwet in his public performances 10
the Senate former days Massachusetts, made herself
sctsbe by The sent the council chambers
nation She generally array ed herself against the
ea government As sovereign State she had right to
do this The policy of the national has
made America all that she is which has added 10 the
opal domain planted flag the Pacific opened the
mines 10 our people richer than the mines of oph made
ma al home respected abroad and gave that
internal policy which makes all the States sovereign and
equal and the nation Massachusetts, has steadily OPP
posed from the time Of Mr. Jefferson the time of Mr.
Buchanan.
But in mach Of this made herself respectable
On many topics her stood high, and with noble
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the public good and all subjects they were heard with
ATTENTION and respect But the ine gold has become dim
The Massachusetts halls of legislation have become cham
bers for abolition harangus The Websttr the Choates
the Eyeretts the Davise the Lords the Ashmuns, the
Cfsrds have displaced for the Phlpses the Halls
the Damrels and the Kisses of this day and with the
shaft on Bunker Hill still rising from her hill-top she
supports eaesses pets the Rev. I1faei Parker who, or
the very 22d Of February of her public balls in The
city Of Boston, 10 crowded and applauding audience
lgned vhed and condemned the Father OF his Country
the immortal Washington and the great picture Of Dan
lei Webster in the Senate covering the whole east side
Faueuil Hail. She takes her arms her most bitter
lgner Henry Wilson, who, when Scott nominated a
Baltimore and Mr. ebser neglected rubbed his hands with
gee shouting aud sui,ing the action TO the word
hare dirked him I We hare dirked him y
The speech Of Mr. Sumner which led to his sickness and
long absence from the Senate chamber stands without
parallel in the history OF parliamentary debate 1t
deliberate offensive personal barangne 1t alluded TO sen
ators By name, who had named him. II assaulted
men, in the violent terms, who had made no allu
sion TO Mr. S. 1t maligned sovereign States while h'
knew that their constitutional defenders not in The
chamber. Ii was done with malice aforethought"
had the effect intended and the author thus confidently
chuckled over the excienen created by the missile
That speech is Of record Itcsnuot be blottet
out 1t was assault deliberate malicious, unproyoksd
with weapon deadly than the bludgeon or tn
sword No particular resolutions votes In
from his shield No sympathy for his persons suf
ferings hide The c, that The Provocson he gave
unparalleled and intense The moral verdict is in ID
public pulse lie came back the Senate after a lon
absence unattended His presence 10 the Senate chabe
unnoticed, except by few Parssns. of which I'd
Boston press complains He left the Capitol unattended
and sailed for the Old World with the smallest porsbl
amount OF sympathy excitement. Even republica
senator, his might have been widely different.
it is be has been the architect of mis- position.
MANHATTAN.