Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-08-07

On the vote upon the resolution there
were 10Y Yeas to 65 Nays. All the Yeas
were Republicans, and they are now unani-
nous in support of President Grant. All
the Nays were Democrats, who are now
equally unanimous in support OF Mr.. Greeley.
Ii is idle to affirm, as some Democrats dld
in a resolution offered by Mr.. Brooks OF New
York, that these amendments are valid
parts of the Constitution so long as the
same men on the same day vote that the
provisions of those amendments should not
be enforced by Congress legislation. Inc
amendments are but a sounding brass ana
tinkling cymbals' To the cOlOret man until
Congress makes them effective and practical
Nay, more; if the rights of the colOred man
are to be left to the legislation OF tina South
ern States, without Congress Intervention,
he would under a Democratic Adminlstra-
ton be deprived of the rights OF suffrage IN
! less than two years. and he would be very
J lucky If he escaped some form OF chattel
slavery or peonage. And in proof of this
danger | might quote volumes of wisdom and
warning from the speeches OF Charles Sum
ner
| SUMNER DELUDEs AND MIsLEADs the BLACKS.
/ When, therefore. you point out to the
colored men that their rights will be safe IN
the hands OF the Democratic party. you de-
\ Jude and mislead them do not say Will.
| fully. but none the less really. The small
handful of epublicans-cOmpared with the
whole mass-WhO unite with yourself! ana
/ Mr. Greeley 10 going over TO the Democratic
party, cannot leaven that lump of political
unsoundness even if you preserve your own
original principles intact. The Admin
istratiOn OF Mr.. Greeley therefore, should he
be elected, would be in the whole and IN
detail Democratic Administration, and you
would be compelled u 70 with the current
or repent and turn back when too late &c
mend the evil you had done. Your argu-
ment that Horace Greeley does not become a
Democrat by receiving Democratic votes
/ illustrating 1t by tue analogy OF the senate r
is hardly pertinent. The point IL, not what
| Mr. Greeley will become personally, but what
will be the complexion of the great leglsld-
tive branch of the Government, with all 1T
vast aDd controlling power. You know very
well, Mr. Sumner, that If Mr. Greeley L
elected President, Congress Is handed over t
the control Of the party who have prtsistent
" denied the rights Of the black man.
What course you will pursue toward the
colored man is Of small consequence after
you have transferred the Government to his
enemy The colored men Of this country are
not as a class enlightened, but they have
wonderful instincts, and when they real
your letter they will know that at Srea
crisis in their fate you deserted them
Charles Sumner cooperating with Jefferson
Davis is not the same Charles Sumner they
have hitherto idOliZed-any more thar
Horace Greeley, cheered to the echo II
Tammany Hall. is the same Horace Creole,
whom the Repu bllcans have hitherto trusted
The black men OF this country viii neve
be ungrateful for what you have done 70
them IN the past-nor, IN the bitterness o
their hearts, will they ever forget that
= heated and blinded by personal hatred of on
man, you turned your back on the million
TO whom in past years YOU stood as a shiel
and bulwark OF defense
Very respectfully, your obd't scrv't,
JAMES q. BLAINE.
AHgusta Ne, July 81, 1872