Another Richmond in the Field.Cleveland, Ohio, Plain Dealer [Democratic](26 May 1856)
Senator Sumner is the man for Fusion Candidate
for President. He has suffered more for
the cause than any other living man. He is a
scholar as well as a martyr. Fremont is neither.
Sumner, too, according to all the Fusion
papers, is the first great man of that party that
has exactly hit the Fusion nail on its head. His
speech embodies, without adulteration or
dilution, the same pure sentiments of the party.
Let him be nominated. "The blood of the
martyrs is the seed of the church."
There is another advantage to be gained by
his nomination. Make the issue personal
between Sumner & Brooks -- Sumner the martyr,
and Brooks, the bully. That would be about
as fair an issue as that party will dare make.
They have done talking about the repeal of the
Fugitive Slave Law, abolishing the Naturalization
Laws, repealing the Nebraska Law, &c.,
&c. All is hushed on the subjects. The nation
is to be convulsed on some little side issue, and
why not have it Sumner vs. Brooks. There is
no doubt that nineteen-twentieths of the people
would vote against Brooks.
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