100 While official duties here compel me to decline the invitation, I cannot forbear Ihe expression, in a brief note, of my unqualified commendation of the spirit and purpose of such a resolution, emanating from such a source. In this hour of peril, the country will hail it with exultation ; its lofty purpose and sentiment of patriotic devotion, will reanimate every loyal heart throughout the land. Assailed by a malignant domestic enemy, and menaced by " the malcontent and desperate " everywhere, the Government requires from all its friends, what you generously tender unconditional and unwavering support, " in the prosecution of the war and suppressing the rebellion." As no government was ever so beneficent, so liberal, so just, so none ever had such claims for support. Self-preservation, the dictates of prudence, the promptings of humanity, alike demand that the war should be conducted with terrible energy with that overmastering vigor which comes from the united efforts of a great people intent upon the vindication of the right. In this great national trial, reliance, under Providence, is upon the people. They need not only to be steadfast in their confidence of the justice of the cause, but united in its maintenance. May a generous enthusiasm for country animate all hearts, and the inspiration of a common purpose enable a firm and united people, with the pride of American citizens, to assert that, in spite of foes, domestic or foreign, " the great Republic " still lives, and shall survive as the rich legacy of the past and the hope of the future. Very respecefully, Your obedient servant, LOT M. MORRILL. Hon. JAMES W. WHITE, and others, Committee. LETTER OF CHARLES SUMNER, SENATOR FROM MASSACHUSETTS. SENATE CHAMBER, WASHINGTON, July 14th, 1862, DEAR SIR : I welcome and honor your patriotic efforts to arouse the country to a generous, determined, irresistible unity in support of our Government"; but the Senate is still in session, and my present post of duty is here. Asenator cannot leave his post more than a soldier. But, absent or present, the cause in which the people are to assemble has my God speed earnest, devoted, affectionate, from the heart. What I can do, let me do. There is no work which 1 will not undertake, there ia nothing which I will not renounce, if so I may serve my country. There must be unity of hands and of hearts, too, that the republic may be lifted to the sublime idea of a true commonwealth, which, we are told, " ousht to be as one huge Christian personage, one mighty growth and stature of an honest man, as big and compact in virtue as in body." Oh. sir, if my feeble voice could reach my fellow-countrymen in their workshops, in the streets, in the fields, and wherever they meet together ; if for one moment I could take to my lips the silver trumpet whose tones should sound and reverberate throughout the land, I would summon all, forgetting prejudice and turning away from error, to help unite, quicken and invigorate our common country most beloved now that it is most imperiled to a compactness and bigness of virtue in just proportion to its extended dominion, so that it should be as one huge Christian personage, one mighty growth and stature of an honest man, instinct with all the singleness of unity. Thus inspired, the gates of hell cannot prevail against us. To this end the cries of faction must be silenced, and the wickedness of sedition, whether "in print or in public speech, must be suppressed. These are the Northern allies of the rebellion. An aroused and indignant people, with iron heel, ought to tread them out forever, as men tread out the serpent, so that it can neither hiss nor sting. With such a concord God will be pleased, and he will fight for us ;
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