New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-06-24
MIR, SUMMERS SEAT.

Office is no mans prer0gative, nor IA IL 10
be accounted hardship that ono who has
worthily discharged its responsibilities should
be released from further service. He who has
nobIy fulfilled the duties of q high public trust
has established no further claim to continuance
therein than that which springs from the
general desire to let well alone. and the pre-
sumption that experience has ripened aud en-
larged the best natural abilities. II zone who has
faultessly and even brilliantly filled an exalted
station were weak enough to ask why he had
been superseded, it would be sufficient answer
that the People sow fit to prove that capacity
and integrity in Office were no lucky accidents,
and that the Republic could survive the loss
of any of her children.
The People of Massachusetts, are about to
choose new Legislature, by which the seat
in the United States Senate now held by Mr..
Sumner is to be filed for six years from the
4th of March next. If an Anti-RepnbllcaD
Legislature should be chosen, Mr.. Sumner will
of course be superseded; if not, he may be.
Without dogmatizing or debating, we proceed
TO say why many earnest Republicans in other
States would regret the retirement Of Mr..
Sumner.
Most Of our Republican statesmen have O
political history antecedent to our existing or
PLANTATIONS; Mr.. Sumner, nearly alone, is no.
where regarded as having Wing or Demo-
cratic predictions, but as purely and wholly
Republican. Other statesmen however pro
foundly Republican, regard collateral questions
with an observing interest: the Tariff, the
Currency, the Pacific Railroad, &c, largely
engross their attention.; Mr.. Sumner profoundly
believes ii Of paramount, absorbing interest
that the Nation should be just even to her
humblest most despised children, and that
Righteousness ia tho essential condition Of ma
terial and other prosperity. Never inattentive
to or neglectful of any public duty, never
even accused Of sacrificing or opposing tho
interest of Massachusetts, in any matter
of legislation, he is yet known to believe that
her interests can never be truly promoted by
sacrificing those Of Humanity. In an age of
ycnaty aud Of unchnritable suspicion, be was
never even suspected of giving mercenary or
sclUhH NOlct III eu dtHiobPucic WHelu c'Ois
man is supposed to have bis price and to be
schemiDg and striving for solfaggrandizement,
no man ever suggested that Charles Sumner
was animated by sinister impulses, or that he
would barter or stihe bis convictions for the
Presidency. The one charge brought against
him by his many bitter adversaries imports that
he is a Jonatic not that it was ever imagined
that he is the special devotee of any fame or
sect, but that he sincerely believes it the end Of
civil government to hasten the coming Of Gods
earthly kingdom by causing His justice to per-
wade every act, every relation, and thus making
the earth, 80 far as human imperfection will
permit, ve,tibule Of Heaven.
Massachusetts, has many able and eminent
sons; and if she should see fit to be repre-
scented in the Senate by Mr.. Everett, Mr.
Winthrop, Mr. Gushing. or any other antag-
onst Of the principles 30 earnestly and faith
fully upheld by Mr. Sumner, her right to such
choice is unquestioned. Should she prefer
another Republican to Mr.. Sumner. all must
bow to her decision. All that the Republicans
Of other States can and do ask is that no back.
stairs intrigue, no chimney-corner arrangement,