Volume 6 — A VICTORY OF PRINCIPLE IN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

Letter to a Public Meeting at Middleborough, Massachusetts, June 11, 1860.

Senate Chamber, June 11, 1860.

DEAR SIR,—It would give me pleasure to mingle with my fellow-citizens at Middleborough in pledges of earnest support to our candidates recently nominated at Chicago, but duties here will keep me away.

Be assured, however, of the sympathy, which I offer more freely because I find in the Platform declarations full of glorious promise. Our victory will be worth having, only as it is a victory of principle; but such a victory I expect.

Because I believe that our candidates hate the five-headed Barbarism of Slavery, and will set their faces against all its irrational and unconstitutional pretensions, I am earnest for their success.

Accept my thanks for the honor of your invitation, and believe me, dear Sir,

Faithfully yours,

Charles Sumner.

F. M. Vaughan, Esq., Secretary, &c., &c.