“_Sumner’s Truthful Exposition of the Aims of Black
Republicanism.--Its Teachings in the coming Conventions._
“The perfect platform of the Black Republican party has been
laid down by Senator Sumner in his recent speech in the Senate,
and it is now before the country for approval or rejection.”
In the same spirit, the _Richmond Despatch_ recognized the speech as an
authentic manifestation of Northern sentiment.
“The fact is, Sumner has spoken but too truly. His is the
spirit in which the South is regarded by the party to which
he belongs. He is its mouthpiece. His is the tongue to the
Abolition lyre, giving it utterance, bringing out its genuine
tones. Greeley and Raymond are afraid, just at this moment,
to speak the whole truth. They dare not let the conservative
portion of the people at the North know that it is the
design of the party with which they are associated to make
uncompromising war upon the South,--to destroy its institutions
at any cost of blood, to hunt down its people even to the
extremity of death, if it be necessary. The South ought to feel
obliged to Sumner for betraying the designs of the party. His
speech is a godsend.”