Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1862-10-25

SOuI NtOuS hHu ueIeTc0llal VI ulS Ua0
ners, he sincerely desired TO maintain the
kindest personal relations with those who
were TO be for years his daily associates
and co-workers for the puhlc good /; but
that was haughtily refused The Wings
naturally regarded him as one who had
assisted and pro6ted by the overthrow ol
their party in Massachusetts, and who
had no business in the seat of Webster,
Everett, and Winthrop. The Democrats
felt bound to show that his election by
the vote Of their party gave him no claims
on their consideration, fellowship, or sym.
pathy and was precedent not to be follow.
ed Socially ns well as politically, in daily
intercourse or ZACH Of Intercourse, as well
as in the arrangement Of Committees, they
notified him decidly that hostility to 'Slav.
cry was, in their eyes, hercsy not to be
pardOned. In neither Of the great parties
then just entering upon the earlier stages
OF decay, was there room or welcome for
one Of his decided convictions. Though
his ability, his requirements, his personal
worth, we're undiSputed, he was accorded a
place on but one or two Of the most insig-
Difcant Committees being regarded in the
Senate much as he would have been in
some great slave traders auction.rcom in
Rchmand or New o leans, had be insisted
on sitting there from day to day. and max
ing The freest and least llatterng criticisms
Oh the nature and tendencies of the busi
ness there transacted. Who then foresaw
or imagined that he would one day he Chair
man Of the Committee on Foreign Affairs,
a leader of the majority, and a trusted
counselor of the PresidentP We'll might
be say, in his recent noble oratiou in Fan
euil Hall, ID response to the Presidents
Proclamation Of Freedom. "Thank God
that | have lived to see this day |"
The brutal assault wherewith Slavery,
through his minions Brooks, Kett, aud
Edmonson, replied to his exposure of the
crimes aud outrages which had mark.
ed her career aud illustrated her character
in Kansas, was one of the inspirations ofthe
Fremont canvass Of 1856. which synchoroiz
ed with the close Of his & st term, and re-.
duced 10 minimum the opposition to his
reelection. The vote in the Legislature
was some 333 for, TO 20 or 80 against him
The Nebraska bill, the Kansas outrnges, he
Lecompton fraud, continually swelIed and
deepened the current of Anti-Savcry senli.
ment prevailing the Free States, until the
election of Lincoln, the secession Of the
Cotton States, and ultimately that Of the
most of the Border Slave States also, com.
pietely transformed the senate so that for
the last two sessions, and portion of that
preceding them, Mr.. Sumner has been in a
majority in body which he entered with
SCARCELY half dozen compatriots, and has
been able to secure the adoption of impor.
tant measures where he formerly struggled
Intellectually 10 defeat those of bis haughty
and contemptuOus antagonists Yet none
can say that he returns the hate or Scorn
lie was visited in his days of ad
versity, nor that his intense condemnation
Of the crime against Humanity now culmi-
naling in gigantic X Gendish Rebellion, has
rendered him harsh toward those whom
perverted education and u virious social or.
der have involved in The guilt of treason On
the contrary, his every net aud utlerance
beSpeak his consciousness that they are,
though erring, still his countrymen, and his
anxious, loving aspiration that the devil
now rcnding the South should make haste
10 60 out of Fer, leaving her once more do
cie TO the monitions of reason, of conscience,
aud Of patriotism.
Mr. Summers second term expiring with
The present congress, it was inevitable that
those who are rcbuked by his course and
mortified by the consideration he has so
lobIy won, should make an effort 10 sup.
plant him. The only danger apprehended
BY his friends was that of a still hunt-of
'urprise-of the election by secret concert
md undcrhand management of legislators
who would profess to he unpledged and
open to conviction, while really in the roun
ills aud under the control Of bis deadly
enemies. This was, however, averted, and
he Republican state convention which was
leld at Worchester on the 10Th ult. put its
leel emphnnticaIy on all attempts to elect
IN anti Sumner Legislature on the false pre-.
,ence that it was an unpledged one The
subsequent calling of a Peoples Conven
iou,' aud the nomination Of Gen. DevcnS
or governor, was tribute 10 the character
and influence Of their Senator of which his
friends have right to feel proud. For the
irSt time in our political history, a party
laS Oeen OTBaOLeu anu Olalc IIchel nOnl-
mated for the sole purpose Of defeated the
reelection of one who is not s'a'e officer
and never aspired to be. Gov. Andrew is
regarded with hostility intensified by the
'ewuess Of those who feel il bu; The bitter
ness with which Mr.. Sumner is hated in
lists on the qualification Of a canvass, even
though a hopeless one and since there was
no existing party by which this could be
attempted without manifest fuliliiy, one
was organized for the purpose And it
as best that this should be- Let us have
A census of the friends and the enemies of
Mr.. Sumner in the state which he has so
lonored
| have said that, while other Senat,rs
nave shared his convictions, none have seem
ID SO emphatinally, so eminently, as he to
smbody and represent the growing deepen.
ng. Anti.Slavery sentiment of the country
\ one has seemed SO invariably to realize
hat public wrong is public danger
hat Injustice to the humblest and weakest
is peril to the well.being of all. Others
nave s emed to regard the recent develop
nents of disunion, and treason with surprise
md alarm he has esteemed them the BIZ.