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Show SNATOR SUMNER- Before Charles Sumocrleft for Europe Eu-rope lie was requested by the Liberal Republicans to deliver an address in Gaston, on tha political situation. His ill-health aod the iiijuQction of his physician prevented bim meeting the request affirmatively, but he wrote, as an open letter, what would have been bis speech, which wjs publicly read and then given to the press. It is a lenfithy loner, reviewing the present condition of political affairs, comparing the two candidates for the Presidency of the- Republic, and defending his own course in the present crisis by copious extracts from speeches made by himself, which were warmly received receiv-ed and highly eulogized by tho Republican Repub-lican party at the time they were delivered. Air. Sumner is no demagogue. Ho ' is not swayed by the caprice of the multitude, bending to their obloquy or flattered by their praise. However much men may differ from him on many point?, his patriotism and honesty cannot be justly questioned. A Republican Re-publican and an abolitionist of tho strictest strict-est sect, now that emancipation and negro suffrage aro fixed facts, he asks that the colored citizen shall ba upon a social equality with his white-skinned fellow-citizen; and claims for tho disfranchised dis-franchised whites :he lull cserciso of tho political rights enjoyed by all others. Ho argues against every step or line of policy that would keep up irritability of feeling betwoen the races because of race ; and speaks warmly in favor of reconciliation, which his speeches for ten years show he has always al-ways favored when tho proper time would come that reconciliation was possible. That timo he believes haB arrived. The Democratic party have oast off tho old traditions which clung to slavery and the oligarchy of race ; they have stepped forward and to-day aro standing upon a Republican platform, plat-form, having acted as patriots willing to cast aside party traditions for the good of the country. Frankly accepting accept-ing the action of that party at Balti more, Air. Sumner considers they acted in good faith, and that there is no substantial reason to doubt their patriotism and honesty. Ho supports Horace Greeley, because he considers, and gives his reasons therefor, that Greeley's election will sweep away the very foundation of many of the abuses that have crept into our system of government, none of which are more powerful than those springing from an incumbent of the Presidential chair seeking and working for his own re election. This tho one-term principle would obliterate from our polities, and Greeley is pledged to that principle. Air. Sumner's letter, though calm, dignified and in keeping with the reputation repu-tation of the great. Massachusetts! senator, sena-tor, attacks iu plain language many abuses ab-uses that are dow on every tongue, either calling forth reprobation or defence. de-fence. Altogether it is a powerfully written paper, and cannot but have a strong influence as a campaign document. |