A Letter to Hon. Charles Sumner, of the United States Senate

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Excerpt from A Letter to Hon. Charles Sumner, of the United States Senate: Exposing the Bullock-Blodgett Ring in Their Attempt to Defeat the Bingham Amendment Dear Sir - Permit me to address you upon a subject of great importance to the colored people of Georgia to the Republican party of that State, and, in my judgment, to the Republican party of the nation. As I address you upon a subject of such vast importance, you will permit me to allude to my anti-slavery and Republican record, to show that I have a right to speak upon that subject. I am a native of the State of Maine, my father was an anti-slavery man, and from my earliest boyhood I sympathized with his views. At school I was known as an earnest advocate of the anti-slavery cause, and an outspoken friend of the negro. At a time when it was very unpopular to do so, I demanded that young Burns, a negro boy from Liberia, a schoolmate of mine, who was being educated at Kent's Hill, Maine, should have the same rights that white students had, and, through my instrumentality, he was elected a member of the literary society of that school. I threw my first vote for John C. Fremont, for President, in 1856. I entered the army at the commencement of the war as captain in the 8th Maine infantry, and served three years. I went with the expedition that captured the Port Royal islands in South Carolina. I was, I believe, the first officer of a white regiment who tendered his services to General Rufus Saxton to assist in organizing the colored regiments raised by him in South Carolina, and I served seventeen months on his staff. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.