SENATE CHAMBER, April 16, 1864. SIR,--You invite me to deliver an address on Lafayette before the Young Men’s Association of Albany. In view of a recent incident in the history of your Association, I am astonished at the request. I cannot consent to speak of Lafayette, who was not ashamed to fight beside a black soldier, to an audience too delicate to sit beside a black citizen. I cannot speak of Lafayette, who was a friend of universal liberty, under the auspices of a society which makes itself the champion of caste and vulgar prejudice. I have the honor to be, Sir, your obedient servant, CHARLES SUMNER. C. W. DAVIS, Esq., _Cor. Sec., &c., Albany_. FINAL REPEAL OF ALL FUGITIVE SLAVE ACTS. SPEECH IN THE SENATE, ON A BILL FOR THIS PURPOSE, APRIL 19, 1864. December 10, 1863, Mr. Sumner gave notice of his intention to introduce a bill to repeal all acts for the rendition of fugitive slaves. February 8, 1864, in pursuance of previous notice, Mr. Sumner asked and obtained leave to introduce the bill above mentioned, which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Select Committee on Slavery and Freedmen. February 29th, Mr. Sumner reported from the Committee a bill with an accompanying report, of which ten thousand extra copies were ordered to be printed.[327] There was a minority report by Mr. Buckalew, of Pennsylvania, which was also printed in equal number. The bill was in the following terms:-- “A Bill to repeal all acts for the rendition of fugitives from service or labor. “_Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Congress assembled_, That all Acts of Congress, or parts of Acts, providing for the rendition of fugitives from service or labor, be and the same are hereby repealed.”