New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-10-27
LETTER FROM SENATOR SUMNER TO THE COL
ORED CONVENTION AT COLUMBIA, s. C.

LETTER FROM SENATOR SUMNER TO THE COL
ORED CONVENTION AT COLUMBIA, s. c.
The following letter from Senator Sumner
was read the Convention of Colored Men Columbia,
8. c., on Monday:
DEAR SIR I am glad that our cOlOred fehow-citizens
are to have Convention of their So long they
excluded from rights or suffer in any way on &C
count Of color they will naturally meet together In
find proper remedy, and since kindly invite
offer few brief suggestions.
In the first place, you must at all times insist upon
your rights, and here mean not only those already &C
corded but others still denied all of which contained
in equality before the law Wherever the law supplies
a ,rule, there you must insist upon equal rights
How much remains to be obtained you know
too well in the experience Of life Can respectable col
ored citizen travel steamboats, railways public
cOnyeyances generally without insult on account OF
eoori Let Lieut. Coy Dunn of Louisiana describe his
journey from New-Orleans to Washington. Shut out
from proper accommodation in the cars the doors Of the
sssy WbS railroad eonduor had SsDeS I
excellent friend Frederick Douglass relate his mel
MSnOn he was thrust back from the Where
his brother-commissoners were already seated You
anSx the with 0u regard to mSS oe ask and S
common schoos hotel s legal institution and 80 Is
or M A b DC r S
her account Of colori 1t is not enough to provide
al respects good as those Of other persons equality
is not found in equivalent but only In equality In other
color. The dissemination is insult, and hindra9Ce
and q bar, which not only destroys comfort mort
and TSs Fight sqT to Vote win STs
when your equal right in public conveyances notes,
and common schools Is at last established put neo
must insist for yourselves by speech Dy SuS also
The Civil Rights law needs supplement 70 cove, suo
caaes This defect has been apparent rom the Dest
ming and for long time have striyen TO remove IL
W have not bill NV fU Soorsd OW IN
power shall longer postpone TINS eSSS Trt Mr.
Ruardt Surely here Is object worthy Oh euYf -
has the Republican party aUns 70 sstaSsh ali our own
people In the enjoyment OF eguA uEnts ,tvtians 10
70 bring others within the sphere OF our bo
be treated IKE Frederick Douglass was on MS that
small part Of the means, the energy, SI1 n S and
mined win spent In the expedition " nao mt fslsnd
IN the prolonged war dance about tnaL naAnuy
Es7 a vo %sSH Ssvs secured ali our ccored
in the enjoyment Of equal rights OF TINS therS ca DO
no doubt Among the cardinal objects IN iSt,
which must DO insisted on here again must 20 taach
Equality il YOU do not practice IT, 1t s IN vain 70 rece
the great words Of the Declaration OF mdepenuehec
you do not make them living reality WnnS 10 loeeo
must ali be equal ct the common school, Equahy IN Se
common school is the preparation for equality ~ the
baotbox; therefore, do pat this among the
a To nsst upon ,ustice 70 all under which neOessa;
riy Included purity In the government. panuSlesns
money changers, whether Democrats or ana
must be driven out Of our temple. Tsmmhany n THcre
aSS GOOD % men nS S srs no% coming me
rescue Let them while uniting against ooIluPn ~
iawless yoienoe wherever elbows ITSELF whether N sho
Ku-Knx Khan outraeng the South or inicit ,ha
ings outraging the Black Republic OF hayu M
nestmabe objects add speoie ray accentsd By the
American people. WIN not our ooioIed Ioo 49, az
begin thia good works Let taen ~ tne Ssn" ~''