And as to Slavery, if there be any doubt that it died constitutionally and legally with the State from which it drew its malignant breath, it might be prohibited by the enactment of that same Jeffersonian ordinance which originally established Freedom throughout the great Northwest. Accept my thanks for the honor you have done me, and believe me, dear Sir, 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. March 18, 1862, Mr. Sumner asked, and by unanimous consent obtained, leave to introduce a bill to remove all disqualification of color in carrying the mails, which was read twice by its title and referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. The bill in its operative words was as follows. That, from and after the passage of this Act, no person, by reason of color, shall be disqualified from employment in carrying the mails; and all Acts and parts of Acts establishing such disqualification, including especially the seventh section of the Act of March 3, 1825, are hereby repealed. March 27th, the bill was reported to the Senate by Mr. Collamer, of Vermont, Chairman of the Committee, without amendment. * * * * * The existing law was as follows:--