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ect to the Mexican War; charging him with want of sympathy with those who seek to carry into our institutions that practical conscience which declares it to be equally wrong in individuals and in states to sanction slavery. Through you, continues Mr. Sumner, they [the Bostonians] have been made to declare an unjust and cowardly war with falsehood in the cause of slavery. Through you they have been made partakers in the blockade of Vera Cruz, in the seizure of California, in the capture of Santa Fe, in the bloodshed of Monterey. It were idle to suppose that the poor soldier or officer only, is stained by this guilt. It reaches far back, and incarnadines the halls of Congress; nay, more,--through you it reddens the hands of your constituents in Boston; and he concludes the letter by the assertion that more than one of his neighbors will be obliged to say,--Cassio, I love thee, But never more be officer of mine. In this forcible letter, the writer uses these memorable words indica