Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-08-06
Reply to Speaker BIaine's Letter
"A ScathiRg Rebuke to
His Impudence.
The PigRly Made to Feel His
Insignificance, and Sent Back
to His Master with a
Flea in His Ear.
A Few More Digs at Grants Grim
inal Ignorance, IneOmpe-
teney and Propensity
for Gifts.


/ WASHINGTON, August 5.-Senator
Sumner thus replies to Speaker Blaine:
WAsHINGroS, August 5, 1872.
i DEAR SRI have seen the letter ad-
dressed to me by you through the public
prints, and I notice especially that,
while animadverting upon my
SUPPORT OF HORACE GREELEY,
you say not one word in xindication of
that compound Of pretensions, known
as Grantism in cOntradistinetion TO re-
publicanism, which you would install
in new government. You are greatly
concerned about the company keep.
To quiet your soliciude, beg to say
that, in joining the Republicans who
brought forward an original AboIitiOnist,
! find myself with so many others de-
voted to the cause have served always
that / had not missed you until you has
/ tened to report absence, nor had taken
account of Southern secessionists, who,
as you aver, are now cooperating with
me in support of this
ORIGINAL AB0LITIONIsT.
except TO rejoice that if among my for
mer associates some like yourself hesi- (
/ tate, their places are supplied in an un-
! expected quarter. You entirely misun-
/ derstaud me when you introduce an in
eident OF the past and build on it an ar
gument why should not support Hor-
ace Greeley. What has
PRESTON S. BROOKS
/ to do with the Presidential election?
| Never, while a sufferer, did anybody |
4 hear me speak of him in unkindness, |
and now, after the lapse of more than |
half a generation, viii unite with you /
in dragging him from the grave where |
he sleeps, 70 aggravate the passions of |
political conflict and arrest the longing /
for concord, and here is the essential diff /
ference between you and me. At this 1
Juncture seize the opportunity to make /
equal rights of all secure through |
PEACE AND RECONcLIATION.
But this infinite boon you would post
pOue. Seven years have passed since
we laid aside our arms, but, anhappily, /
during all this period there has been a /
hostile spirit toward each other, while
the rights of the cOlOred fellow-eitizens
have been in perpetual question. Seven
years mark natural period of human
life. Should net the spirit be changed
with body? Can we not after seven
years commerce rev life, especially
when those once our foes repent, saying,
Thy people shall be my people, and
thy God my God ~ I declare my prefer
ence for an original AbOlitionist as Presi-
dent, and you seek to create derision by
crying out that /,
DEMOCRATS WILL SUPPORT HIM,
ID which [ reply 50 much the better.
Their support Is an assurance that the !
cause which he has soconstantIv guard i
ed, whether of equal rights or recon- '
is accepted by Democrats, and !
this is a pledge Of true union beyond
anything in our history; it is a victory
Of ideas, without which all other vic
tories must fail. To intensity your allie
cation you insist I am ranged with JEFF {
feTsOn Davis and Robert TOOmbs; but
pardon me, nobody knows how the for
mer viii vote, while Robert TOombs is
bOisterous against Horace Greeley, and
with him are
STEPHENS, WISE AND MosBY.
This is all very poor, and 1 mention it !
only to exhibit the character of your !
In the same spirit you seek to
avoid the real issue by holding up the
possibility Of what YOU call Democratic
administration, and YOU have the cour-
age TO assert, as within my knowledge,
that by the election Of Greeley Congress
is handed over to the control of the I
party who have positively denied the I
rights Of the black men. You say that
| know this. Mr.. Speaker, know no
such thing, and you should be suffi-
ciently thoughtful not to assert it. III
am entirely satisfied that a canvass like
the present, where the
PRINCIPLES DECLARED AT CINCINNATI
are openly accepted on one side and not
on the other, must result
in larger number of Congressional
being more sincerely de- !
voted to the rights of colored citizens I
than ever before, and Democrats viii be I
pledged, as never before, TO the ruling G
principle that all men are equal before
the law, and also to three constitutional
with the clause in each {
Congress TO enforce the !
same by appropriate legislation; but,
besides the Democrats, there viii be G
the Liberal Republicans pledged like D
wise, and also your peculiar associates,
who, l trust, viii not betray the cause.
Senators calling themselves Republicans
have been latterly in a large majority;
indeed, those calling themselves Repub- r
licans have been in large majority in 4
both houses; bth the final measure q
CIVIL RIGHTS |
to which you refer, though urged by me v
almost daily, has failed to become a law,
ess, l fear, from Democratic opposition b
han from Republican lukewaTTnness d
and want Of support by the President. s.
THE GREAT ISSUE e
which the people are called to decide y
low is ON the President, and nobody 1
knows better than yourself that the Y
House of Representatives, chosen at the g
anne time, win naturally harmonic "
With him-so 1t has been in our history.
Sow, harmony with Horace Greeley
involves what most desire. With such e
/ President, y
CONGRESS WILL BE CHANGED il
or the first time since the war, equal 4
lights Of all viii have been declared, and 81
he representative at the head of the gov e:
whose presence there will be n
. higher significance than that of any n
'ictoTy Of the war, being not only tes- e
amentary but a constant motive power e
n this great cause. Opposition, whether Al
u open hostility or more subtle treach- ri
ny, will yield to the steady influence of Ii
nch representative; therefore, in look i,
ng TO the President l also look TO Con-
-ress, which will take It's character, Ia
3rge measure from him. In choosing =,
Horace Greeley we do the best we can =,
1r the whole government, not only in \,
be executive but in the Legislative y
ranch, while We =
DECLINE TO SUPPORT NEPOFIsM. cr
Of personal gifts by official Ii
the seizure Of war powers, IA
nd the indignity TO the Black Repub- "a
G, and to various acts Of ineapacity ex- 10
ibited by the President and the rings d'
Y which he is governed, none Of which o
an YOU defend. You know well that OC
ngs are already condemned by the CT
-userican people. For myself, I say, W
lainly and without hesitation, that I h'
refer Horace Greeley, with any Con- p
ress possible, on the Cincinnati psat- n
,rna, to President Grant and bis pre- y
snsions and his rings, aiFote for whom g
lvolyes the seppoTt of bis pretensi0ns, P.
18th Of
PRoL0NGED POWER ~ ALL RINGS. y
here must be another influence and T1-S
mother example. The administration, = :,
Al lts parts, is impressed By the Pres ~ y
lent. Let bis soul be enlarged with the I,
OF justice, quiekened by in- !"
pstry, and not only the two houses of
IA h.. Il.