The New York herald., 1872-08-03
The Massachusetts LiberatOr Harmonic
ing with TOOmbS and jeff Davis.
CALLING A SPADE A SPADE.
Under Democratic Administration Negro
Rights Would Vanish in Two Years.


among your former political friends throughout
New England. Your power to injure General Grant
was exhausted In your remarkable speech in the
Senate. Your power to injure yourself was not
fully exercised until you announced an open alli-
| ance with the Southern secessionists in their
efforts to destroy the republican party OF the
nation.
| l have but recently read with much interest the
| circumstantial and minute account given by you
| In the fourth volume of your works. Of the man.
| ner in which you were struck down in the Senate
| Chamber in 1866 for defending the rights OF the
negro. The democratic party throughout the
South, and, according to your own showing to
| some extent in the North also, approved
that assault upon you. Mr.. TOombs, Of Georgia,
openly announced his approval of it In
the Senate, and Jefferson Davis, four months after
its occurrence, wrote a letter to South Carolina in
fnlsome eulogy of Brooks for having nearly taken
your llfe It is safe to say that every man in the
South who rejOced over the attempt to murder you
afterward found In the rebel conspiracy to muir
der the nation. 1t Is still safer to say that every
of them who survives Is to-day your fellow laborer
In support Of Horace Greeley. In 1856 he would
indeed have been rash prophet who predicted
your fast alliance, sixteen years after, with Messrs
T0ombs and Davis in their efforts to reinstate their
own party in power. In all the startling mutations
occurred the fellowship of Robert Toombs, Jeer-
son Davis and Charles Sumner In joint effort to
drive the republican party from power and hand
over the government to the practical control of
those who recently sought to destroy it, 1t is of
no avail for you to
TAKE REFUGE BEHIND THE REPUBLICAN RECORD OF
HORACE GREELEY.
Conceding, for the sake Of argument (as I DO not
IN fact beieve), that Horace Greeley would remain
firm in his republican principles, he would be
pOwerless against the Congress that would
come into power with him in the event of
his election. We have had recent and
striking Illustration in the case of Andrew John
of the inability Of the President to enforce a
policy or even measure, against the will OF Con-
gress. What more power would there be in Horace
Greeley to enforce a republican policy against
a democratic Congress than there was in Andrew
Johnson to enforce democratic policy
Horace Greeley has already in his letter
Of acceptance, taken ground practically against
by by yourself; of the duty Of 'th the national
government to the rights of every citizen to
protection Of iiie person person and IND property; In Mr.
tion, he peases every Ku Klux villain in the South
by repeating the democratic cant about 'Iocal self
lance against GENERALIZATION" and finally declar-
ing that "there shall be no federal subverson Of
nicpalties but that each shall be left free to enforce
the rights and promote the welbeing Of It's nhabit
@ By sa as s IT,
plain English is that no matter how the colored
citizens of the South may be abused, wronged and
protection but leave them to the tender merces OF
the "local sefgovernment' administered by the
this pSson St @ tG ye
YOU CANNOT FORGET, MR.. SUMNER,
how often during the late session of Congress you
having your Civil Rights bill passed by the House.
II was introduced by your personal friend, Mr..
by 9 e ose eaosp Its c
tious hostility OF the democratic members
Il 1 have correctly examined the Globe,
occasions resisted the passage OF the Civil Rights
bin by the parliamentary process known as fill
come to a vote. Two intelligent colored
members nom South Carolina, Elliott and
ss Resse Resssa to merely so% the eS sSS
Rights bill to be voted on, and they were
answered with a denial so absolute that it
| amounted to scOrnful jeer of the rights of the
colOred man. And now you lend your voice and
influence to the reelection OF these democratic
support Of Mr. Greeley Do you not know, Mr..
| Sumner, and will You not as candid man ac-
knowledge t as WI Wt th these cso men IN power IN Con-
sacrificed SO far as those rights depend on federal
SECURITY OF coLoRED RIGHTS
Still further-the rights ofthe colored men In this
country secured, II secured at ALL by the three
great constitutional amendments, the thirteenth,
| fourteenth and fifteenth. To give these amend
ments full scope and effect legislation by Congress
Is imperatively required, as you have so often and
| party are on record In the most conspicuous man.
ner against any legislation on the subject
| IL was only in the month OF February last
! that my colleague, Mr. Peters, offered resolution
! in the House OF Representatives, affirming the
'validlty OF the constitutional amendments and OF
such reasonable legislation Of Congress as may be
necessary to make them in their letter and spirit
most enectual." This resouton-very mild and
guarded, as you will see-was adopted by 124 yeas
to SO nays; only eight OF the yeas democrats:
all the nays were democrats.
The resolution of Mr. Peters was followed
week later, by one offered by Mr.. Stevenson, OF
Ohio, as follows.-
Resolved, That we recognize as valid and binding all
the o s n,sd nd senh 0 ne 5
tion OF citizens in their rights under the Constitution
amended.
| On the vote upon this resolution there were iO7
| yeas to 65 nays All the yeas were republicans,
| and they are now unanimous in support OF Presi-
dent Grant. All the nays were democrats, who are
now equally unanimous In support OF Mr.. Greeley.
Ii is idle to affirm, some democrats did in
resolution offered by Mr.. Brooks, OF New York, that
ese on are he sa1 pnrS oil OIL M te con-
day vote tnat the the provisions pn,so OF those amend
sounding prass and tinkng symbas' to the
soored man untn Congress makes them effective
the the colored man are are to be left to tn the legislation
OF the Southern States, without Congressional
intervention, he would, under, Democratic
suffrage in less than two years, and he would he
very lucky II he escaped some form OF chattel
slavery peonage. And In proof OF this danger
might quote volumes or wisdom and warning from
the speeches Of Charles Sumnerl
DELUDING THE BLACK MAN.
When therefore, you point out to the colored
men that their rights will be safe In the hands
OF the democratic party, you deude and mis-
lead them--I do not say w1lfully, but none the
less really. The small handful of republicans,
compared with the whole mass, who unite with
Yourself and Mr.. Greeley in going over to the
|
political unsoundness even II you preserve your
| own original principles in the contact. The ad-
| minIstration OF Mr.. Greeley therefore, should he
be elected, would be In the whole and In detail
| democratic administration and you would be
! ompelled 10 ~ With the current or repent and