Sumner Re-elected

Hon. Charles Sumner was re-elected to the U.S. Senate, on Thursday last, 15th inst., for six years from the 4th of March next. The vote stood as follows:

In the Senate: 

       Charles Sumner ………….98

       Josiah G. Abbott …………. 5

      Charles Francis Adams…. 1

In the House:

      Charles Sumner ….. 194

      Josiah G. Abbott ….. 88

      Caleb Cushing …….. 2

      Charles Francis Adams ….. 1

The results bring long comments in praise of Sumner, including :  –“Thus has Massachusetts nobly vindicated her name and fame as the foremost State of all the world in the cause of free institutions, and trampled beneath her feet the malignant aspersions cast upon the political reputation of her gifted Senator by the minions of a traitorous slave oligarchy…………”

                                                             (Liberator, January 23, 1863, pg 2)