Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-08-08
SUMNER ANSWERED.
Hon. Jas G. Blaine, of milne, speak
err of the National House oil
Representatives, writes
an Open Letter.
THE DANGER OFGREELEY AS
PRESIDENT.
AUGUSTA, Me, July 81, 1872,

the uapers of this morning Will create
profound pain and regret among your
former rolitical friends throughout New
England. Your power to injnre General
Grant was exhausted in yonr remarkable
speech in the Senate ,ur power to
i lure yourself was not fully exercised
until YOU announced an open alliance
with the Southern secessionIsts IN their
efforts to,destroy toe Republican party
oil the nation. | have but recently read
with much interest the circumstantal
and minute account given 10y YOU IN the
fourth volume Of your works Of the man
uer in which YOU were struck down in
the Senate chamber in 1896 for defend
ing the negro. The Democratic party
throughout the Sou b, and according to
your own showing to tho same extent N
the North, also approved that assault
upon YOU Mr. loombs, OF Georgia,
openly announced his approvol OF it in
the Senate, and Jefferson Davis, four
months after its occurrence, wrote let
ter to South Carolina, in iuisOme eulCgy
IF Brooks for having so nearly taken
YOUR life 1t is safe TO say every man in
the South who rcjoiced oy the attempt
u murder you was alterward ionnd IN
rebeIlious conspiracy 20 murder the ma
ton II 10 still saier to say that every
one of them who survives is to-day your
fcIow.laborer in support of Horace
Greeley. In 1856 he would indeed have
been rash prophet who predicted your
alliance 10 years after with Mcssrs.
g0ombs and Davis, in their efforts to re-
instate their own party in power. In all
the startling mutations Of American pol.
tics nothing so marvellous has ever oc.
CURED as the fellowship Of Robert
Toombs, Jefferson Davis ana Charles
Sumner in ONT 81 Hort to drive the Re.
publican party from power and hand
over the Government to the practical
control Of those who so recently sought
to destroy it, 1t is Of no avail for you
to tuko refuge behind the Republican
record Of Horace Greeley, toncedlng
for the sake OF argument az do not, in
fact, believe, that Horace Greeley would
remain firm in his Republican, principles,
he would be pOwerIcss against the Con-,
Cress that would come into power with
him IN the event Of his election. We
have had recent and striking iIlustra-
ton in the case Of Andrew johnson OF
the inability Of the President to enforce
policy or even n measure, against the
viii OF Congress What more power
would there be in Horace Greeley to en-,
force Republican policy against
Democratic Congress than there was in
Mr. johnson to enforce Democratic
policy against ~ Republican Congress
And besides Horace Greeley has "a
ready, in his letter of acceptance, taken
ground practically against the Republ>
can doctrine, so often enforced by your,
self, OF the dGly Of the National Govern
nent to secure the rights of every cil-
zen to the protection of life, person and
property In MIR. Grcelcys letter az,
uepting the Cincinnati nomination, he
pleases all the ku klux in the South by
repeating the Democratic cant about To-
cal sell government and mvcighlng in
GOOD rebel parunce against ccntrali1a,
,ion, and finally declaring that there
shall be no federal snbyersion of the in
iernal policy of the several States and
municipalities, but that each shall be
letI free to enforce the rights and pro,
mote the we'll being of its inhabitants by
such means as the Judgment of its own
people shall prescribe, The meaning OF
MI this in plain English is No matter
how the colorcd citizens may be abused,
wrongcd and oppressed, Congress shall
not Interfere Tor their protection, but
leave them to the tender mercies of local
self government, administered 10y white
rebels. Do you, ms a friend to the coll
ored man, approve the position Of Mr..
Greeley (ou cannot forget, Mr. Sum.
ner, how often during the last session OF
Congress You conferred with me in re-
grad to the possibility of having your
Civil Rights bill passed bv the House.
1t was introduced by your personal
friend, MIR Hooper, md nothing pres
vented its passage by the House except
the raucoroas and mctiouS hostility OF
the Democratic members II | have
correctly examined the Globe the Dem
utrane members, on different occasions,
resisted the passage of the Civil Rights
hill hy the parliamentary process knC wn
~ ftibustcging They would not even
allow il 10 come to ~ vote. Two inteli
gent culorcl members from South Car
olina, Elliot and Kramer, begged Of the
Democratic side Of the House to merely
allow the Civil Rights ull to be voted on.
and they were answered with a denial
- et-u,ute that il amounted to a pain,
lul jerr at the rights of the colured man
And now you lend your voice and inhu-
euce 10 the recollection of these Demo,
cratic members who are co,operatorS
with yoc in support of MIR Greeley Do
Nou not know, Mr.. Sumner, and will YOU
Lot, as u candid man, acknowledge. that
With these men in power in Congress the
nights oil the colored men are absolutely
sacrificed SO far as those rights depend