polity of the whole Union. It Was not snr prising that the caluwand truthful communi cation of the President should excite Mr. Sum ner's malignity, and that he should style it :> "white-washing" message. Had the Presi . dent recited as true the falsehoods relative v Southern cruelties to the blacks, nnd Southern disloyalty, which have been invented and cir culated to help on the agitation against resto ration, and for the degradation of the South