Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-08-03
Letter from Speaker Blaine
Charles sumner Addressed in Plain
Terms.

NEW YORK, August "A letter from James
g. Blaine, speaker of the house of representa-
tives, to Senator Sumner was handed TO the
latter at Washington to-day.
Blaine says: Summers letter creates regret
among former friends in New England Sum-
ner's power to iniure Grant was exhausted in
his remarkable speech in the senate, but his
power to irjure himself was never fully eXer-
cised till his open alliance with southern seces-
sionistS in their efforts to destroy the republic
can party.
Blaine then refers to the fact that in Sum-
ner's own works he records the approval of
democrats, north and south, of the as
sault upon him by Brooks in 1856 :;
TOOmbs openly approved it in the senate, and
jeff Davis wrote a Fulsome euogy of Brooks
for having so nearly taken Summers life Every
man in the south who then approved that as
sault was in the rebel conspiracy TO murder the
nation, and every one who survives is to-day
Summers fellow labOrer in supporting Greeley,
In all the startling mutations in American poll
tics, nothing so marvellous has occurred as the
fellowship OF Robert ToOmbs, jeff Davis and
Charles Sumner in a joint effort to drive The re-
publican party from power and hand over the
government to the control of those who SO re-
Gently sought to destroy it.
Blaine contends that it is useless for Sumner
TO take refuge behind the republican record of
Greeley, for the latter would be powerleSs
against the congress that would come into
would have no more power TO enforce a republi-
can policy against Il democratic congress than
Andrew johnson had against q republican con-
gress. Besides, Greeley has practically taken
grounds against the republican doctrine, and
pleased every kukluX in the south by saying in
his letter of acceptance that each state shall be
left free to enforce the rights and promote the
well being of its inhabitants by such means as
the judgment of its own people shall prescribe.
MIR. Blaine claims that this means that congress
shall allow that southern states shall be left to
the tender mercies Of white rebels, and asks
Sumner as friend of the negro if he approves
of this position of Greeley.
MIR. Blaine then refers at length to the fact
that on seventeen different occasions the demo-
Gratis in congress opposed the passage of Sum-
ner's civil rights BILL and would not even allow
it to come TO vote, and now Sumner lends his
voice and influence to the reelection of these
same democrats. He asks Sumner, as candid
man, if he will not acknowledge that with these
men in power in congress the rights of colored
men will be sacrificed
Mr.. Blaine continues by quoting the votes OF
the last house OF representatives, showing that
the democrats steadlaStly voted against the en-
lOrcement bills of the thirteenth, fourteenth and
fifteenth constitutional amendments.
MIR. Blaine says that under democratic con-
gress, colorcd men south will be deprived of suf-
fragc IN less than two years, and he be lucky il
they escape some form of chattel slavery or
peonage. When Sumner points out to the
colored men that their rights will be safe in the
hands of democrats, he deludes them; and the
small handful of republicans who unite with
Sumner aud Greeley caunot leavcn that unsound
political lump, even if they preserved their
original principles.
Mr.. Blaine conclude by saying that although
the cOlored men, as a class, are not enlightened,
yet they have wonderful instincts, and they will
know that Charles Sumner, cooperating with
JEFF Davis, is not the same Sumner they hereto
tore idolized, any more than Greeley, cheered
to the echo by Tammany hall, is the same
Greeley who republicans heretofore trusted.
Black men will never be ungrateful to Sumner
for what he has done in the past, nor in the
bitterness of their hearts will they ever forget
that, treated and blinded by personal hatred
of one man, Sumner turned his back on the
millions to whom in past years he stood as
shield and bulwork of defense