The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-04-04
Mr.. Simmer and The Cincinnati Convention.

Mr.. Sumner and the CInclnnau Soh'ehth"n'
The Washington correspondent OF She. Chi'
cano Tribune has had a talk with the Massa-
chusetts Senator, and. reports the result OF MS
interview as follows: a1 e..
Last Friday night called upon the Senator
from Massachusetts. He has been sufterlng
from the old stripes received in the Senate 10
the days when slavery was aggressive, anu nis
back and spine give him such pain al T., ulhes
that he reclines in his commodious h0Iary
busted with some favorite book: found MIN
opening his evening mail, entirely alone, ano, ~
induiring about his health, was assured tna5
nothing Of public or political movement added
| to his trouble; Hfor," said he, Il have not mao
much repose since entered the Senate, and
cannot see that mental action, agitation, or op,-
position does me HARM" People who think
that Mr., Sumner is less of character tnan ne
used to be because the Executive has dlspos,
sessed him of his old committees where ne dld
such great service, should see his mail from all
parts of the country, and the hearty express
sions of respect. and support which he Is re
ceiying. Mr.. Boutwell, told me himself, on the
same day ON which made this call, that II
there we're an election of Senator from Massa-
chusetts to-day. ..Chatles Sumner would be re-
turned triumphantly just as thrice before:
Mr.. Sumner is concerned about the Clncln-
natl Convention. He believes it ought to oe a
Republican convention on-Republlcan IN the
larger, broader sense of a common country,
legible legislation, and exemplary Executive,
whose mind will permeate and illuminate e.! MS
party, and make all feel that we are not salilng
sidewise or poop-foremost, but straight on. ne
believes that President Grant is not kepuol-
can President-and, by the way, MIR: sumner
ought to know what Republicanism IS, 1or ne
he man
did. Even as early as 1854, when Jonn a.
Andrew wrote him letter, implonng him 10
appear at Worcester and address the new con-
vention there, MIR. Sumner said in the course OF o
his speech-a the applause which followed IL
accepted the, name he gave tive meet az
Republicans to declare moral war on the OIL
garchy of slavery" The Senator gave me the
names of several gentlemen whom ne under
stood were to appear in Cincinnati as volunteer
delegates. I think violate no confidence In
naming among others President Woolsey, long
at the head of Yale College, "a gentleman now
lin bis. seventy-frst year, who took the profes-
sorship of Greek there in, 1887, and became
praident in 1916. He is the translator and
editor of some of the finest works of Euripides,
Sophocles, Eschyus and Plato Ex-senator
Foster, of Connecticut, has also indicated his
hope in that convention. Reis direct descen-
dant of Miles Standish, graduate of Brown
University, and doctor of laws, and ne was
made Senator in Congress in 1855, and pre-
sided over the Senate after the death of Mr..
Lincoln. I was also told that MIR. james 4.
Moorhead, of Pittsburg, one of the wealthiest
and most respectable men in the Keystone
State. looks to Cincinnati as the real .Republi-
can Convention of the crisis, and will give 1t
his support Mr.. Moorhead was ten years IN
Congress. Mr.. Samuel Bowles, of Springfield,
an editor whose life is as bold as his journal,
will also 60 to Cincinnati.
Mr.. Sumner thinks that the present admins
tration has exceeded that of Andrew Jackson
in violence of personal purpose and attack up,
on other departments of the government and
it is not improbable that, before long, we shall
hear from him, reviewing the personality OF the
administra ion and its debasing influence upon
the public morals and the people. Whatever
position Mr.. Sumner may take toward this
convention, feel assured that he is in sympa-
thy with it, as an old Republican, and yet
man who, in the wear and tear of public life,
has of late become intoned with more mellow
charity and sympathy for all people, North and
South The Southern people who LOOK to the
interests of their children will not be:bh to
these healing Opportunities, when the most
ardent men in the extreme North are at last
impressed with the needs of all, and wish to
see more perfect union, with justice. tran
guilty, harmony, and good understanding re-
established.