“The error of having listened to this speech cannot be
repaired. The Republicans can set the matter right, as to
this being indorsed by the friends of the Administration
in Massachusetts; and it would seem to be incumbent on the
Republican State Committee to make a statement of facts,
going to show, that, as a body, it did not invite Mr.
Sumner to speak,--that, though the noisy Abolitionists
shouted, yet the main body of the Convention evidently and
notoriously heard him with sorrow.”