The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-07-25
Our colored Citizens.

Never were people more interested In
the issues of a political campaign than
are the colored citizens of the United
States in the present presidential can
vass. The continuance or discontinu-
ance of their present rights are involved
to some extent in the coming November
election.
IF General Graut is continued Presi.
dent another term, their citizenship will
be established beyond a peradventure.
While on the other hand if Horace
Greeley is elected, system of political
manipulatious will begin, which will end
in the abrogation of the 18th, 18th, and
18th amendments to the Constitution,
by which their right to citizenship were
begun, and thus far continued.
1t requires no prophetic vision to see
the end from the beginning should such
a calamity befall the country, as the
election Of Horace Greeley would be.
Greeley is today in the keeping of a
circle of as corrupt men, as this or any
other country ever produced, men whose
corruptions as the rulers of the CONNER
cial metropolis of this country were
commented upon by the statesmen and
the press of the old world; corruptions
that shook the mercantile confidence of
Europe toward America, and impaired
the faith of the liberal minded of all
lands in the integrity of Republican
form OF government
Greeley looks to Tammauy Hall and
the Tammany Society for his support,
and the Tammany politicians are manag-
ing the affairs of his canvass from the
beginning, and propose doing SO to the
end. And then Tammany gentlemen,
Tammapy thieves, and Tamufany roughs
and repeaters go to Washington, to rule
the nation as they have done New York.
That Greeley is with Tammany, and
Tammany with Greeley cannot be
questioned. When, not year since the
New York Times was making herculeau
efforts to expose the corruptions of the
county and city government OF New
York, arousing the honest men OF both
parties to sense of the damaging mis-
rule of the county and city officials, what
was the New York Tribune Editor do
ing? De he fall into line and do battle
for the right? not bit of it; he was
counseling prosecution for libel against
the Times for slandering his innocent
friends VIM, B. Tweed, A. Oakley Hall,
Connolly and others, and not until public
Indignation had spoken in thunder
tones does the editor of the Tribune,
Horace Greeley, give one peep against
his friends then, his friends and keepers
to-day.
The press of the State and city of
New York is to-day faithfully sounding
the alarm, the trumphet carries with it
no uncertain sound, and true Republi-
cans should buckle on the armor ana
meet the most insidious foe they have
as yet ever met on the field of politics in
this country.
The Albany EUening Journal says:
Confessedly, the chief pillar of Mr..
Greeley's support in New York is Tammany
Hail. Its politicians are making his can
vass. If he should be elected, his Admin
istration would be surrounded by that in
fuence. General Grant is sustained in this
State by the great mass of those who stood
by the Government through the war, and
who Won the victory for reform last year.
Mr., Greeley is sustained by those who sym.
pathized with the rebellion and who upheld
Tammany Hall last year iu spite OF the ex-
posed rottenness. What more can honest
men ask to guide them than the contrast OF
these associations"
But let US once more listen to the
counsel of the veteran pioneer OF the
rights of all men before the law, Gerrit
Smith, in letter declining, by reason
of the infrmities Of age, to speak in
CazenoYia, n. Y: