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e American people. Mr. Sumner was elected by the town of Marshfield to the convention for the revision of the constitution of the State, which assembled in the State House, Boston, on the fourth day of May, 1853. In this body, embracing many of the ablest men of the State, he took an active part, and made several speeches evincing a profound knowledge of constitutional law, as well as of our political history. In the debate on the powers of the State over the militia, on the 21st and 22d of June, he said, in opposition to conservative opinions,-- Massachusetts may proudly declare, that, in her own volunteer military companies, marshalled under her own local laws, there shall be no distinction of color or race. In his speech, July 7, on the basis of the representative system, he ably advocated that arrangement which has since been adopted. cannot doubt, said he, that the district-system, as it is generally called, whereby the representative power will be distributed in just