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papers of this morning, will create pro-
found pain and regret among your former
political friends throughout New England. |
Your power to injure Gen Grant was ex-
hausted in your remarkable speech in the |
Senate. Your power TO injure yourself |
was not fully exercised until you announ-
ced an open allegiance with the southern |
secessionsts in their efforts to destroy the |
republican party of the nation.
have but recently read with much in
terest the circumstantial and minute ac-
count given by you, in the fourth volume
of your works, of the manner in which you
were struck down in the Senate chamber
in 1856, for defending the rights of the ne
gro. 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
1t in the Senate, and Jefferson Davis, four
months after its occurrence, wrote letter
TO South Carolina in fulsomc eulogy of
Brooks for having so nearly taken your
life. 1t is safe to say that every man in the
South who rejoiced over the attempt to
murder you, was afterward found in the
rebel conspiracy 10 murder the nation. II
is still safer TO say that every one of them
who survives is to-day your fellow laborer
in support of Horace Greeley. In 1855 he
would indeed have been rash prophet
who predicted your fast alliance sixteen
years after with Mcssrs Toombs and Davis
in their efforts to reinstato their own party
in pOwer. In all the startling mutations of
American politics nothing so marvellous
mas ever occurred as inc leiiowship Oh Rod
erI loo'nps' 'ehersoh paVis anu '|n"r'es
summer III JOINT e'ior' 10 uriNc 'no rePu'-
hc'" party 'r",n power anu manu- Owe, '"o
government W wv Pi"'''''', 'o"''o u. ~ '''se
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ie1' Oo'''o"'"t' W 'n0 SAM VI :" su''o"''
Ias ! no NOT III i'ci peiie'e') 'l'"' horace
"ree'oS Wo"'' ie''''' n'n' !" MS 'eP""''-
can prlhcipies, he Wouiu ne poWerless "
gainst the congress that wouid come INTO
power with him in the event OF his cleo
ton. We have had recent and striking
illustration, in the case of Andrew John
son, of tho inability of the president to en-
V,
the will of Congress. What mere power
would there be in Horace Greeley to en-
force a republican policy against a demo-
cratic Congress than there was i'm Andrew
johnson TO enforce a democratic policy
against republican Congress ? And be-
sides. Horace Greeley has already. in his
letter of acceptance. taken ground practi-
callv against the republican doctrine so
often enforced bv Yourself. of the duty of
the national government to secure the
RIGHTS of cverv citizen to nro,ection of life
person and propertv. In Mr. Greelev,s
letter occentinr the cincinnati manhattan
be nIeosee oyerv kpklux yi,lion in the
Souib bv roneot;po tbe de,nocrotjc can,
obont .iocal eeIf.oovernment - and in.
WEIGHING in good rebel parlance against
GENERALIZATION. and finally declaring that
"tbere shall be no federal subyersion orthe
internal policv of the several STATES and
municipalities, but that each shall be left
free to enforce the rights and promote the
weii-oeing OF its inhabitants by such means
Us 'he Juus'"ei'' vi us own people snail
Prescripe'
Inc meaning OF all ibis III pam Engiish
tnat no iiatter no" inc coIoEeu citizeh OF
'ne oou'n uiay DC apuseu' WronSeu anu
oPpresseu' congress siA'i NOT interfere ior
t"e' P'o.e'''o', "u' 'ea'e tnep' u ''ie 'en-
y, '"e io'', Se'i- 'e'"i'e"''
gu W 'no ""lVo io"ois' ~ YOU
"' i''o'u W 'no ooio'eu MAN approve 'uis
10" cannot iorse'' MI sumner now
o''e" uul'"s 'no i"'o seSs'oh OIL congress
S0u 'onie''ou W.T." me III rcsalu u 'nc
P'ss'pii'y vi haNi"s your civil rlsnts p'il
p'''o' ny '"o iiouse' ~ was '"''ouuoeu
~ S0'' Po''o"', ,''o'' AVA i'oope', anu
,'"7 - 40 P'''''so ~ ''o
'.P' ''o humorous "'" '"''.ous hos''"'y
vi ''ie ue'iio'i"'io 'ien'pe'S' NAVE COT
io'''y oA"'i''"eu tue "'ope' tue uen'octa''c
'hei''oers U" seventeen uI"eren' occasions
res's leu tne passage Oh inc civil rights OIL
Wy 'ne parliamentary Proccss h"o"n "s
n'ipus'eii"s' 'hey "ouiu io' even a'io"
TO come 10 Vo'e' TWO in'eiilgenl col
oreu hiehlpe's from Soutn .aroiiia' ELI
OIL ana h'ihey' pesSeu Oh Tue uehiocrati'
side oil me House 10 merely allow the ciViI
r'ShS pIH 10 DC Vo'eu oi' ana 'hey were
answered WITH uehlai so absolute that II
amounted 10 scorhiul Jeer oil inc rights o
inc coioreu man. Ana now you lend youi
voice ana influence 10 me fe-elec'ion o.
these democratic members who are coop
Grating with you IN the support OF Mr. Gree
ley. DO you not know, Mr. Sumner, and
Will you not as candid man acknowledge
'hat wilh ihese men III power III Congress
the rights OF the eolored men are absolute
~ SACRIFICED so lar as those rights depend
ON federal leglslalionY
Sui iullher; The rights OF the colored
men In this country are secured, II secured
at all, by the three great constitutional
amendments, The 18th, l4th and 10Th. TIC