Year: 1872

eulogy of Brooks account. 1t is safe to
say that every man in the South who re-
joiced over this attempt at murder, was
atterward found in the rebellous conSpr-
acy to murder the nation. 1t is still safer
to say that every one of them who sur
wives is to-day the Senator's fellow labor
er in support of Greeley.


Nothing SO marvellous ever occurred in
American politics as the friendship of
Robert Toombs, JEFF Davis and Charles
Sumner, in joint effort to drive the Re-
pulican party from power and hand over
the Government to the practical control
of those who so recently sought to destroy
it. He regards the public record of Gree
ley as no consequence; but concedng, for
the sake OF argument, which he does not
believe fact, that 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, and cites the case
Of johnson as an illustration of the in
ability of President to enforce a policy
to which Congress was opposed. Besides
Greeley already, in his letter Of accept
ance, has taken ground against the Re
publican doctrine OF the duty of the Ma
tional Government to secure to citizens
protection Of life, person and property,
and please all the Ku-Klux in the South
by repeating Democratic cant about self
government, and inveigling in good rebel
parlance, against Capitalization, and final
ly declaring that there shall be no FEEDER
al subversion of the interests and policy
of the several States and municipalities,
but that each shall be left free to enforce
the rights and promote the well-bclng of
its inhabitants by such means as the judg-
ment of the people shall prescribe. The
meaning of all this, in plain English, is,
no matter how the colored citizens in the
South may be abused, wronged and OPP
pressed, Congress shall not interfere for
their protection. but leave them to the
tender mercies Of local self-government,
administered by white rebels. The writer
reminds Sumner of the defeat of his Civil
Rights bill in the last Congress by fac
tious opposition of Democrats who would
not even allow a vote on it. Now he
lends his voice and influence to help those
members. He asks Sumner, as candid
man, if he does not know that with these
men III Congress, the rights of coored
men are sure to be sacrificed, so lar as
their rights depend on Federal legislation.
He says the rights of colored men of this
country are secured, if at all, by the lat
est amendments to the Constitution; and
to give full scope and effect to them, leg
islation by Congress is imperatively re-
quired. Against this he shows the Dem
ocratic party are on record by votes in
Congress against Peters and Stevenson's
resolutions affirming the validity of these
/ amendments and such necessary legisla-
tion as is required to give them force.
The acknowledgment by the Democrats
that these amendments arc valid parts OF





the amendments are worthless to the col
ored men until Congress makes them
effective and practical.


THE FATE OF CoLoRED VOTERS UNDER


A GREELEY ADMINISTRATION.


The rights of the colorcd man in the
Southern States without Congressional
intervention would, under Democratic ad
ministration, be worthless; he would be
deprived OF the right OF suffrage in less
than two years, and he would be very
lucky if he escaped some form of chatteI
slavery or peonage. When he (Sumner)
advises the colored men that their rights
would be safe in the hands Of the Demo
cratic party, he deludes and misleads
them.


Mr.. Blaine argues that if Greeley were
elected his administration would be essen
TALLY Democratic. Summers statement
that Greeley's receiving a Democratic
nomination does not make him Demo-
crat, he considers not pertinent. That
point is not what Greeley himself might
become, but what would be the complex
ion of the great legislative branch Of the
Government with all its vast controlling
power. He repeats his argument that
Greeley would be powerless to enforce
any policy against the will of Congress,
and concludes by assuring Sumner that
the colored men will not follow either him
or Sumner into the Democratic party
They will not forget his (Sumner's) SER
vices to them in the past, nor will they
forget how, heated and blinded by the
hatred Of one man, he turned his back
on them.