“MR. SUMNER,--It is with inexpressible pleasure that I address you this day as the voice of the great multitude of your fellow-citizens. In their name, and by their authority, I welcome you to your home in Massachusetts, expressing their honor and thanks for the power and fidelity with which you have fulfilled your duties as their representative in the Senate of the United States, where, ‘unshaken, unseduced, unterrified,’ you kept your love, your zeal, your loyalty to Liberty,--where neither number nor example, threat nor sneer, ‘within you wrought to swerve from truth, or change your constant mind.’ [_Applause._] “You return to your country, Sir, after having given glorious evidences of intellectual power, which touched, as with the spear of Ithuriel, the evil spirit of our Union, causing it at once to develop in full proportions its gigantic deformity, compelling it to unveil to the Free States its malign design to make this land of the free a land of slaves. [_Voices, ‘Never! never!’_] “You have suffered, and are still suffering, for your intrepid faithfulness. But suffering in the cause of Truth and Liberty is the heaven-laid path to win ‘the crown which Virtue gives after this mortal change to her true servants.’ [_Hearty cheers._] “I rejoice that my life has been prolonged to this day,--that I am permitted to behold the dawnings of ancient Liberty through the broken openings of the clouds, which for more than fifty years the spirit of Slavery has extended over this Union. I thank Heaven that now, at last, the Free States are beginning to awaken to a sense of their dangers and their duties,--that, at length, they begin to realize that the Slave States have overleaped the bounds of the Constitution. The apathy of half a century may delay for a time the triumphs of Freedom, but come they will. Final success is certain. Never again will the Free States in silence acquiesce in the farther extension of slave domain. [_Loud applause, and cries of ‘Never! never!’_] Henceforth they will hear and attend to the warning voice of Washington, solemnly uttered in his Farewell Address,--‘SUBMIT NOT TO USURPATION,’--‘RESIST, WITH CARE, THE SPIRIT OF INNOVATION UPON THE PRINCIPLES OF THE CONSTITUTION.’ [_Cheers._] “We welcome you, Sir, as the champion of Freedom [_loud cheers_], and as one to whom the deliverance which we hope may yet be destined for our country will be greatly due.” MR. SUMNER, who had been standing in his carriage, uncovered, then spoke, in a subdued voice, and evidently under the influence of deep feeling, as follows.