New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-11

h.d sold out
Mann into retirement Sumner was too sIone in W..h,
Gentlenen who know anything about aaesacnu'
sets politics for the las: ten years, could not DC e
TO believe unless the very language was PII oei9,e
them that OLIVER" Of all other men, could nave in
vented 20 grossly false charge There IS not scnoo
boy within twenty miles Of Boston VINO does nos
thai every single allegation, 90 lar as an o
IL without the sbsdow Of foundation. Ia 49, non
six wears ago, but fve), Mr. Sumner friends were
good deal dissatisfied that be did not take sn active
part in the ,%Pp e0ouDeeI him hen a, having
I" sold out" This is so far from being true taa',
having suggested to Mr.. Sumner such CONSIDERATIONS
ss thought proper in favor of his entering me can
yses, said to him. a. have always SAID wnen my
iudemt Mt differed from bis have such perfect con-
q fdtnce in the purity OF your motives and the accu
racy If YOUR instincts that leave the decsion win
lyon" mr. NJ. u, .o,os.l drove Adams.
Palfrey and Mann into retirement Eve'y
man in Massachusetts knows-and 10 man peter lnau
"O!iver that if there are four men IN MasshShu
setis whom have honored loved reverenc. am al
most worshiped above all others for the last ten years
they have been, and are Messrs Palfrey, Mann ADAMS
and Sumner. Dir. Palfrey resides in anotheS CongTs
sor al District, and my relations personal anu pom
CAL have not been so intimate WIN nun a. WIN va.
other gentlemen But Oliver" i in his District, ana
he kntrs that. az conscience Wing candidate Tor
Congress- Free Soil candidate for Congress anu TOT
Governor Nh Palfrey received the most hearty sup
port which, as editor of TIE CommoHTedlh, or 10 any
capacity, it was in my power to give; and no living
man ever heard me be athe aword but of enthusiastic
admiration Of his brilliant abilities, OF the singular
beauty Of his daily life and of bis uncompromisihs
and self-sacrfcing fidelity TO Our cause
Precisely the zane is true OF HORACE MANN. twas
in his District advocated his nomination by the Free
Soil Conv ention when he was the Wing candiiate 10
succeed the old man eloquent, aided IN MS noiha-
ton ard election when the Wogs threw him over, sup
ported him to the best OF my ability when ne Wds tue
Free Soil candidate for Governor and up to the mo-
uie Mt when he bade farewell stood by him, one OF
the LuInbest but one of the frmest ot the fends,
than whom no man ever had better aud truer.
And CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS! Can such thugs De
"where bells have knolled TO church = Can u Oe
that even Over" can write such q SANDER wilnou,
burpirg the very paper with the blush OF shame
Why have hardly met Oliver" for i've years WITH
out being made the butt of his dicule as thu enthu.
astic admirer the Fidus Achates Of Air. Adams. NY
ACQUAINTANCE with Mr.. Adams commenced when he
Conducted The Boston Nhig-a time when friends
were few ard when he and all who sympafhzed with
him were under the ban of an unrelenhng political ana
social prescription and when from these
peJbaps and from having furnished some articles ior
TIE Wig which attracted some notice, was admit.
ted to relations to which not entitled From that
day eleven years ago, to this, Mr. Adams has had no
warmer adnirer and more earnest supporter thai
myself In the melancholy differences which grew out
of the "coaltiop" We differed but those differences
never disturbed our smcabe relations, and think
may be padoned for saying never trenched upon our
mutual cobtideIc and respect 1t has been the dream
of NV life TO see the ablest Adams of them all IN the
seat Of his brave old father, at Washington and
accomplish this did everything in my power, with
more zeal than dscretion,l at the only time there was
even a chance to elect him. in 1852.
will not say with how i'll grace this charge comes
from "Ohver;" will not state facts known to every
one coLversant with the tiai history oil inc
Free Soil party III Massachusetts, which justify me not
only in the indignant denial OF the charge, but In hur-
| il Q it back upon "Oliver''-Nutato hom'ne de TIE
faJuIa narrdtur but have the right to say, a:
have said uniformly for the last eleven years that Tor
truly democratic views Of policy for varied attain
mehts and abilities, for unsesh fidelity to our cause
for incorruptibe integrity, and because OF all these
for capacity for the highest trusts and for desert OF tue
| highest hOnors of the Republic, no man 10 Mas'a
chusetts is the peer of Charles Francis Adams TINS
| "Oliver" knows to be my opinion; hundred times
he has ridiculed me for it, and now charges me with
| heading conspiracy to 'drive Adams INTO reure-
ment." . 49, =,
"Sumner was too strong for them" Here, too, l
have damnpg proof of faets to prove that the Latin
| quotation above may be retorted upon Oliver
| "Chsnse but The name the tale is told of thee"
But nv only object Sir is to convince you that the
Of your correspondent are utterly utterly
| unworthy Of credit.
From The day when l first met CHARLES SUMNER
| in the Office Of Charles +. Adams in a consultation
| of Coincidence Whigs" JOHN QUINCY ADAMS being
of the number, TO the day when he stepped board
the steamer which bore him away-alas | fear for
| eyer-there has never been one moment when the
laions between have been other than those Of per-
sonal kindness and political accord. These are not
matter. for the public but " Oliver forces me into
an exhibition Cf otherwise unseenly se-esteem by
| dragging me before the public demagoguc and a
factiCnis. who has been in pot for years to break
down men whom it has been my highest aim 20 follow
as guides and my highest pride to love a. friends
| ara rW say what otherwise should be sacred
| When forget the many many precious evenings
have spent with CHARLES SUMNER in bis office, when
the tw light dies away aud the fires go out, at first
urging him TO accept the nomination to Congress-
| which the "Conscieice Wings of the Suffolk Dis.
Iict had rendered him, listening to his recital of the
purposes and the dreams of his early e of the solemn
| vow never TO accept nomination TO any political
o1f Ia l..
ing the love Of weman; sympsthzing with the shrink
Ig Of bis noble spirit from the conflicts which lay in
the path Of political bonors: when forget the days
| and weeks Of most intimate association with him
during the long Senatorial contest acting as the me-
dunn Of bis most confidential communications with
our friends when forget the cordial and confidential!
| Intercourse awarded TO whose public and social
position is 20 far below his own during every hour
Of the last Elk years; and especially when forget all
that have enjoyed and suffered as sat, day after
day by the bed where lay that noble form,
"In all, save form alone, alas! how changed"
| and when forget that at the last moment as he
was bidding his native land good night he wrote me
| the last note charging me, as his true and trusted
friend to keep him posted up by frequent letter. in
may allow thi "Oliver, without rebuke. to charge
me with attempting to crush out CHARLES SUMNER.
Another Of the proofs ofmy facous and selfish course
| ia in the following terms
"In 1855 attempted organize Free Democratic party
in oppc ition Rockwell who then the Republican
G he .fp,Sns called cSnyr0s
parts Of the State The train stated from Bsson Win
Nh Bird and other deesteboh elected BY themselves
Nobody joined the way except solitary individual It
North Brookhed and the THO arrived at Springfield and found
nobody waiting for them They constituted the Convention"
"Over subsequently correct. this statement by say
ing that he wrote 1854 ofl855 and Wilson
Of Rockne and then leaves the charge to stand thus
| deliberately reafrmingiit; accept the corrections
but the allegations just false when applied II
| Witon as to Rockwell. made no attempt to organ
I've Free Democratic party in 1851; fl that marty