Faithfully yours,
Charles Sumner.
Among the resolutions adopted at the meeting was one calling for the overthrow of Slavery,—“because the supreme jurisdiction of the National Constitution over all the territories now occupied by the Rebel States must be held to be exclusive of the traitorous Rebel authorities therein established, by virtue of which alone Slavery now therein exists, and that wherever the Constitution has exclusive jurisdiction it ordains Liberty and not Slavery.”
These were forwarded to Mr. Sumner by one of the secretaries, with the following letter.
“I hand herewith a copy of Resolutions adopted, amid the wildest enthusiasm, and without a breath of dissent, by an assembly of some three thousand of our prominent citizens, last evening, at the Cooper Institute Mass Meeting. No such audience has been convened in this city (except only the Union Square meeting of last April) since your address in July, 1860. Nor has so demonstrative a gathering been seen here since that time. I say this to give you an idea of the character and popularity of the affair. I hand the Resolutions to you for personal presentation to the President (and to Congress, if your views are not opposed to such a course), preferring to secure their reaching the President through you as a medium of communication.”
Mr. Sumner had pleasure in presenting them to the President.
REMOVAL OF DISQUALIFICATION OF COLOR IN CARRYING THE MAILS.
Bill in the Senate, March 18, 1862, and Incidents.