“The sincerity of the Republican managers, in appealing to
Union men of all parties to meet with them in Convention,
is not certainly placed beyond question by the fact
that Mr. Sumner (not without invitation, we apprehend)
comes forward as the organ of the assembly, and makes
the principal speech of the occasion, as he did at the
Convention last year. At that period this was felt
as at least an awkward circumstance, considering the
unquestionable Antislavery ultraisms of Mr. Sumner. Of all
men in the community, this, and this alone, was the special
vocation of this Senator,--to denounce a domestic usage
of a part of the country, which, whether good or bad, is
protected by its Constitution and laws.”
In another issue the same paper characterized the speech as
one, “the insane counsels of which considerate men of all
parties regard with such dislike and indignation.”