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TowANDA, Pa, March 26 l8G

TowANDA, Pa, March 26 1868.
EDITOR HARTFORD TnEs Dear Sir:
sent YOU sketch Of the moral and 90
litical character Of Thaddeus Stevens
the leader of the Radical or disunio1
party in the House Of Representatives
and now / send you Ike sketch o.
Charles Sumner, the leader of that party
In the United States Senate.
Charles Sumner was heir to an estate
of a near relative in the South Virgin
la, / believe it was) His deceased
relative owned large number of slaves;
and Notwithstanding Summers profess
ed hostility to slavery, he caused the
poor negroes to bcsold, and pocket
cd some $4,000 from.the sale OF them;
and now, while he is. making speeches
on the barbarism, of slavery &c, he is
living. sumptuoasly on the money he
received from his traffic in human flesh
Although don't blame him for his OPP.
position to the odious institution OF
slavery, yet I would ask, is it not a
question of moral honesty whether he
should not refund the full value he re-
ceived for the slaves to the purchasers
of them, after being instrumental in de,
priving them of the property they pur-
chased in good faith, and which, in COM
mon law, under plea of a failure OF
consideration, an equivalent in DANA
ges could be recovered from him and
his co-heirs.
He is also literary thief, vile Sian,
derer, and a thorough coward. The
learned and venerable Judge Butler, OF
South Carolina, took occasion to expose
his plagiarisms, and while that gentle
man was absent from the United States
Senate, on account of the dangerous
illness of member of his family, Sum
ner made speech in that body, full OF
ISLANDERS and personal abuse of the ven
cradle Judge; for which Col. Brooks,
of the House of Representatives, who
was relative of Judge Butler, caned
him While / disapprove of brute force
Us remedy for private wrongs, ! can
not but look with. contempt upon the
cowardice manifested, by Sumner on
that occasion. Physically, Sumner was
large, stout-built man, while Brooks
was very slender aud delicately built,
and in weight but little over half of
Summers weight; and the cane used on
the occasion was made of gutta percha.
only five-eighths of an inch in diameter,
with a quarter inch hole in the centre
of it,-thus leaving. of solid thickness
only three-cighths of an inch in diameter.
1t was very brittle, for the first blow
struck with it broke it into pieces.
Brooks come up in front of him and
gave him notice of his intention to
chastise him for slandering his relative.
Judge Butler, in his, absence, and be-
meath the effeminate blows of his puny
assailant, with that little brittle cane,
Sumner crouched like whipped spaniel.
Doctor Boyle, of Washington who
dressed his wound, pronounced it only
skin deep and very slight; but it was
so terrible in Summers imagination that
he sent to Boston for a.political friend,
who was surgeon, who gave very
exaggerated account of it., and upon
the exaggeration of this little wound,
which sawmyself when Doctor Boyle
was dressing it, he took tour to Eu-
rope and was.re-elected-t the Senate.
To the character of a statesman he has
no claims, being mere clap-trap dem
agogue. Whenever any question came
up before the Senate relative to slavery,
in Summers pre-arranged absence, Will
son, his toady colleague, would move
its postponement till the next or some
subsequent day, on account of the Sc
rere illness" of his colleague (Sumner),
who desired to speak on it. This trick
became so common, and was so well
understood by the Senators, ,that,it OK
cited smile of derision all over the
Senate chamber. Yours, truly,
w. PATTON.