The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1872-08-08
,hINE ANN SIMMER.

WASHINGTON Aug. 2.-Speaker
Blaine is out with letter to Charles
Sumner, commencing: "Your letter
will create profound pain and regret
among your former political friends
throughout New England. Your
power to injure Grant was exhaust
ed in your speech in the senate In
June. Your power to ipjure your
self was not fully exercised until you
announced open alliance with South
ern secessionists in their effort to de-
strey the Republican party and the
nation.
cit is safe to saw every man In the
South who rejoices over the attempt
to murder you was afterwards found
in rebellion conspiring to murder the
nation. 1t is still safer to say that
every one of those who survived is
to. day your fellow laborer in
support of Horace Greeley. In Amerl-
can politics nothing so marvellous
has ever occurred as the fellowship
of Robert Toombs, Jefferson Davis
and Charles Sumner in Joint effort to
drive the Republican party from
power and hand over the govern
ment to the practical control of those
who so recently fought to destroy it. ;"
Mr.. Blaine continues by arguing
that if Horace Greeley regained favor
in his Republican principles, he
would be powerless against the Con-
gress that would come into power
with him in the event of this cleo
ton. We have had recent and
striking illustration in the case of
Andrew Johnson, of the inability of
President to enforce a policy or
even measure against the will of
Congress.
MIR. Blaine says of the attitude of
the Democracy toward the negro ::
''The rights of colored men in this
country are secured, if secured at all,
by the three great Constitutional
Amendments-13th, 14th and 18th.
To give the amendments full scope
and effect, Legislation by Congress is
imperatively required, as you have
so often and eloquently demonstra-
ted /; but the Democratic party are on
record in a most CONSPICUOUS manner
against any Legislation on the cub
ject." ..-o ....
AS to the disposition of the South
towards the negro, Mr.. Blaine says !:
eff the rights of the colored men are
to be left to the government of the
Southern States without Congress-
ional Intervention, they will be de-
prived of the rights of suffrage in
less than two years, and he would be
very lucky if he escaped from
chattle slavery or peonage."
In conclusion Mr.. Blaine writes ::
"You know very well, Mr.. Sumner,
that if Mr.. Greeley is elected Presi-
dent, Congress is handed over to the
control of the party who have in the
past denied the rights of the black
man. What course you will pursue
towards the colored men is of small
consequence after you have trans
ferred power to his enemy. The
colored men of this country are not to
a class plighted, but they have won
derful instincts, and when they read
your letter they will know that in the
great crisis in their fate you desert
ed them. Charles Sumner CO opera
ting with Jefferson Davis, is not the
same Charles Sumner they have
hitherto idolized, any more than
Horace Greeley. cheered to the echo
by Tammany Hall, is the same Hor-
ace Greeley whom Republicans have
heretofore trusted. The black men
of this country will never be migrate
full for what you have done for them
in the past, nor in the bitterness of
their hearts will ever forget, that,
heated and blinded by personal ha-
tired of one man, you turned your
back on the millions, to whom, in
the past you have stood as a shield
and bulwark of defence.