“Under these circumstances, and at the last moment, by the desire of the Committee of Arrangements, I consented to occupy this position; but you will, of course, excuse me from making any remarks on this occasion. My heart is in the cause. This is a great era, and this is the time when every man should come up to the work and fight for this nation, doing everything which he can, whether by his purse or his sword, to sustain the Government. [_Cheers._] “Thanking you for the honor you have conferred upon me, I now await any motion which may be made.” Resolutions sustaining Emancipation were then read by Charles W. Slack, and, amidst cries of “Good!” and great applause, were adopted. The President then said:-- “I now introduce to you Massachusetts’--ay, Boston’s--honored son. I need not praise him, I need not eulogize him; but I will simply say, it is CHARLES SUMNER.” The enthusiasm that followed Senator Sumner’s stepping on the platform was not surpassed by anything that has been seen in the Hall since Senator Webster took the same place on _his_ return from Washington years ago. The air below was dark with waving hats, and along the galleries white with fluttering kerchiefs. When the applause subsided, a colored man cried out, “God bless Charles Sumner!” in an earnest, trembling, “tearful” voice, and the applause was renewed. The meeting is described as “of much enthusiasm on the part of the overflowing audience that gathered and tried to gather within the ancient walls.” A few sentences from the London _Morning Star_ will show how this effort was recognized at a distance. “The Massachusetts Senator has lately had a meeting with his constituents. Fragments and summaries of his speech at Faneuil Hall have found their way into most English newspapers. Let the sympathizers with the South produce, if they can, from their side of Mason and Dixon’s line, any utterance to compare with it in all the qualities that should commend human speech to human audience.… “This representative of a powerful community addresses to his fellow-citizens considerations upon the conduct of a war in which they and he are more deeply interested than any English constituency has been in any war which England has waged since the days of Cromwell. It is such a speech as Hampden might have spoken in Buckinghamshire, or Pym in the Guildhall. It treats both of principles and policy,--of the means of success, and of the ends which can alone sanctify the struggle or glorify success. It breathes throughout the spirit of justice and of freedom.…