His only attempt, except by unsupported assertions, to place himself in the Republican ranks, is by an appeal to the record of how he stood in the rebellion. That certainly has nothing to do with his claim to Republicanism now. But I apprehend that if he had, at the time, belonged to that party, he would have been found, at the very commencement of the rebellion, rather in the army of the Republic fighting for the life of the nation, than remaining among its enemies and picking up a little addition to his income by indulging in the unpatriotic buisness of running the blockade at the expense of the revenues of the United States, at the same time that he gave aid and comfort to the Confederacy. Knowing, as I did, how easily he could have left the city at that time know ing that he and other Northern men had been invited by the authorities to depart from the Confederacy, unless they were willing to become its citizens, and knowing, too, that he had no ties of property or kindred to bind him to the State, not only I, but some others who saw his stalwart form and soldierly bearing at the Union Club, often thought that he was the right man in the wrong place. If every son of Massachusetts had been inspired with a feel ing of loyalty akin to that which actuated the course of Mr. Sawyer, that noble old State would have had no such glorious record as that which history now gives of its part in crushing the rebellion.

I shall make no reply to Mr. Sawyer's defence of Mr. Clark. If Mr. Clark is competent to discharge the duties of a Collector of Customs, he must certainly be able to defend himself. When he does so (if he ever does) it will be time enough for me to pay my compliments to him. I should like to hear him deny, in his own person, the charge that he sought the nomination ofthe Democratic party for the Mayorality.

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