, 1874-03-17

HITHERTO uNrunLlsAED PRIVATE LETTERS.
From the Nefp Fork Matt.
The late Scllntor Summer had many warm
| porBoua friends in this city, with several OF
whom, and particularly during tue Rebellion, lie
| kept up continuous correspondence. 1Ie wna
prompt, lotter-wrter,, usually responding at
onco, and autoxraphicai!y, to tl,oeo WHO wrote to
| him. As q rule bis lotters wero brief, hut
| wonderfully pitlly and pointed. Ho could, when
| lo 10 chose put q welghty truth Or u wise coun-
sol into very few words, and heuce somo of
his SHORTEST lettors warc Of epigrsmnatic
| force. 1t may be interesting to illustrate cer-
tain fca:urcs Of tho dead Senators character,
sontin'ents and mode Of unbosoming himself III
letters to intimate friends. We therefore pub
somo extracts from number Of Atr. Suinnor's
| letters which have been placet at our service,
Whi]e performing Ills duties in the Seuate, at
that period Of national anxioty which was insop-
erab!e from the condition of tho country during
tho laat few weeks of the Buchanan dynasty,
Mr. sumner wrote:
NO coMrnoMzsr.
JAM ?o. 18o1.-Thfs III trying ordeal. History will
project tho men who stunt firm. No compromise
perfectly irm. Ho says that tho Republican party
shall not, with his asso, become nero sucked egg
nll shell and no tueat- Tho principle NIL sucked out
rray keep o,'r friends at AiG"n'y drn-f1nA-f1nn
Nothing-hota "pepper-corn!"
AB was porl,aps not unnatural among poli-
tcianB, thero were many members of the ltopub-
lican party who wore hungry enough for tllo
loayes and hBlea OF Office to present tllelr claims
md push in their applications oven before sIr.
control Ut tho Government. In reply to re-
queBt for his cooperation towards ''placng"
friend Of tho correspondent, Dir. Sumner wrote
this:
ssNAra cHAMnEn, Feb: D, ls0i.-of COURSE sla'l
be happy always to serve you in any way withln my
power But 1hayo not yet Joined In any rccom,enla-
shn persovcre re- til he I It'll eH Of March Lst M % us get the
Government before We undertake. to dispose ol is
thiag u mo noss afrai of M il % old ouaIsas
and lle was very wisel
There aro those who will remember an i'm
monao meeting Of New Yorkera held at Cooper
Institute eary in March, 1862, ut which Carl
Schurx delivered n most eloquent speech, urging
upon the Administration tho duty OF an oMaI.ci-
patton policy. The meeting had been called
with roference to giving yoiop to the desires Of
publican party, but the call was carefully guard
cd from oil appearance Of emauatiug from party
mon. Itmay bo added that the regular RepuI-
lical's were vory shy ,et Of having any connec,
schurza Bpoecll had boon read to Mr.. Lincoln
init approved Of by him previous to Its delivery
horo. It WAS. therefore, with electrical effect
that, just after tho speaker hud concluded, aud
as tho erowd! waa getting ,rcndy to adjourn 4
preBa-dlspatch aont from downtown was rea:
giving tho text OF htr. Lincoln's "GratluaI
Emancipation Proclamation" It was to thlH
proclamation that Alr. Sumner refers in the fol-
loving letter:
WASHINGTON. 1Iurch o, 1861 was the only senR-
tor who know tho presllpnth purpose. 1Ie hld read
bin message to ME, aud We had discussed the question
for two months 1le IL 1'ch Interested in It,. hops
1t Will ba pushed. Onco Degln emancipation and Tho
work must 60 Oh. People will then That Norauun
work "a tue best work. Mason nnt alllell hays pro-
Eoaed ln Europe ~ to secure marriage OF slaves {2}
emancipation After certain date. II do not noys
promptly we slall be anticipated. Ths 'c"rk must 90
OF,
On tie third anniversary Of the delivery OF hs
celebrated spoooll. "Yho Darbar,sm Of Slavory,"
Midsummer wrote this lotter to active Now Yorl;
Republican friend, the HUT thrown out being
promptly acted upon by the issue Of 4 iarge etli-
ton Of the great speech, which had o preface
specially prepared for 1t i'll the form of " dodi-
cation to tho young ulon Of tho country:
A TRACT FOR THE TIMES,
WASHINGTON. May u, 63-MY DEAR REPUBLICAN,:
Do yon re,neuber II certain spuech-aonspwhat long,
hut c4refNa, stulse', and nBVer nusWorcd-eNtttjed
tIIe Iarbarism Of Slavery" mAtlo thres yeara agu
much ahuscd. It III not M applicable now us then
Indeed 1t ia nut proper tract for the timcs2 It
eoera to thtrs Rre n ny WIN would read II, aud
rgltug 1t, they would nj than ayor te confirmed
uatinn.
The two lettora following need no other OK
planation than the statomout That tho lattor one
rofors to tue lohould from England after hlr,
summers speech In this city OH "Our Foreign
Nelationh":
THE kso11s,1,
WARRINGTON, APRIL II, 1861 am doing what cau
to nuke Enaand Ito her duty. 10 this cnd, mn
axious !lat sho should mud no apology in any aot Of
cr!no Of bringing 1t onn support Ut slayery. Tnere
tsoe Eighth psgo.,