Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1869-10-29

ute vastly to the legions of sulky stay-at homer.
General Grant, lacking the miraculous power
which fed multitudes to repletion on few small
loayes and fishes, has offended these patriots
beyond the hope Of present forgiveness. Let me,
therefore, entreat them to 20 to the polls, and
there work aud vote simply for the Constitu-
tional Amendment securing impartial suffrage
They will thus proclaim that their personal dis
appointments have not affected their principles,
and that their past professions of Republicanism
were not insncere. They shall be most welcome
to vote against me, and still claim to be better
Republicans than | am, if they will thus evince
unabated devotion to the cause.
congratulate you on the assured triumph of
Equal Rights regardless of color in future by
no means remote. The general adhesion of the
South to this principle insures its success. There
will be, as there has been, great party through
out the SouthIwhich calls itself Conservative, and
stigmatizes its opponents as Radical; but the
former claims to be as heartily and thoroughly
Tor Equal Rights as the latter, puts coored men
on its tickets, and in every way msnifests its
faith by its works. Even though this position
were reluctantly taken, do not believe it insin-
cerely held, and l clearly see that it can in no
case be abandoned. Nor can a great National
party base itself on Equal Rights in the South,
and on Prescription and Caste at the North. Ii
will have to take decided and unequivocal
position In preparing for the next Presidential
contest; AMI that must be one which does not
diye-t it Of a hope of carrying q single State
south Of the Potomac. The line Of battle Of the
advocates Of "a White Mans Government is
thus fatally broken, and their total discontinue
merely question of time. 1t behooves us TO
take care that New York be not taught her duty
to the humble and despised by South Carolina,
but that she resume her proper place in the van
Of the mighty host that strikes for Justice Pro-
gress, and Universal Liberty.
While slavery endured the prescription Of the
lacks rested on perfectly Ineligible and logi-
cal foundation Il was deemed fit that the men
who voted should be palpably distinguished from |
the men who were sold at auction. The reason
having vanished, the prescription remains only /
asa tree cut off and stuck in the ground may
serve as a party standard or rallying-pos; long /
after its vitality has departed but all know /
hat its days are numbered, and that it must I
soon fall Of its own weight if not quietly taken
down, which is safest and best. All intelligent
Democrats know and in conversation admit that
lurs must inevitably become land of Equal
Rights and Equal Laws; but the party managers
ay to each other, " We can carry two or three
more eections-or, at least, this one-by crying
lown the blacks the future must take care Of
tself' And thus great wrong Is persisted IN,
through the selfish arts and calculations Of men
Who profoundly despise the prejudice whereby
hey oeyertheess seek and hope 10 profit They
10 this in the conviction that many voters who
re no baser are great deal more ignorant and
tupid than themselves.
In the confident trust that the canvass on
7hich We are now entering will be signalized by
etermined though quiet effort on the part Of the
rienis of Gen. Grants wise, prudent and pa
riotic Administration, and that its result viii!
hame the aggards and faint-hearts who are
ever ready to put forth efforts except when
hey are not needed. remain, yours, gratefully,
Horace GREELEY.
New York, Oct ., 1869.