Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-12-20
L, s, Grant. 1872,


From the New National Era, Fred Doug
lass's Pspsr.l
1t Is now timely and proper to make
known TO U respected readers and
friends, our fixed and unconditional
purpose to support L. S. Grant, for
denomination and reelection by the
Republican party, to The Presidency
in 1872. We do this because upon
the whole we consider his nomination
the most conductive to the unity and
ascendency of the great Republican
party, and to the progress and COM
pletiOn of the great work devolved
upon the nation by the late war. We
do so because U. s. Grant is an honest
man and fully in sympathy with the
great work. We do so because he is
an even-minded man, answering in
purpose, wise and temperate in meas
ures. We do so because he is a tried
man, and has proved himself worthy
of all confidence in guiding the ship
| of State in whatever storms may arise,
as well at those which have already
arisen. We do so because he is a
friend to civil service reform and that
he will use his Wisest and best influ-
ence to purge the Government of cor
ruption, and that he will render all
its departments as pure and efficient
as any man an in his position posi-
bly, render them. We do so because
he is a friend to the Indian. and is the
first President of the United States
who has recommended a policy which
in Our judgment can save that much
abused race from cruel wars and ulti-
mate extinction. We do so because
he is firm, and unfiinching in his
measures to enforce the Constitution
and the laws for the protection of all
the rights of our newly enfrancished
people, and thus to secure to that peo-
pie, with all others, an equal chance
in the race of life. We do so because
whatever mistakes he may have made
during his term of office are as the
spots upon the sun, compared with
the eminent success which has dis
tinguished his Administration. We
do so because, among all the able pat
riotic Statesmen thus far named as
possible candidates for the Presidency
in 1872, there is notOne the certainty
ofwhose election is so well assured as
that of q. S. Grant.
We have been in no haste 10 make
this announcement, and we shall be
in no haste to retract it. We have
made it, too. with a full knowledge
of the fact that some men for whom we
feel a profound respect will regret and
condemn our course /; but we are in q
place where deliberate conviction of
what is wisest and best makes it our
duty to take sides, as we now have
done: and we fully believe that the
colored citizens of every part of our
country will approve our choice.
Long ago we adopted the maxim,
"never to occupy ground which our
enemies desired Us to occupy" if we
could help it. While General Grants
nomination is opposed by some of the
truest and best friends our race has
ever had, inside and outside of the
councils of the nation, this does not
conceal from Us the fact that he is of
all men in the land is most dreaded
by the dark, designing, and reaction
airy elements which have arisen in
the wake of defeated rebellion and
slavery. With him as our candidate,
the last hope Of these reactionary
forces will disappear, and the country
will enter upon its new career of JUS
tice and liberty, and will be peaceful,
prosperous and happy. Without,
therefore, multiplying words, we
earnestly recommend to all RepublI-
cans the denomination and reelection
of Z. S. Grant, President Of the Uni
ted States IN 1872.