New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-09-05
UnCallpd for Advisers.

form of the PHILADELPHIA Contention.
Uncalled for Advisers.
The Greeleyites Of all shades are growing
desperate on account of the impossibility OF
persuading the colored people that Horace
Greeley and the Democrats who are trying to
creep into power over his shoulders will
prove truer friends to them than the Repub-
licans. 1t is this desperation which has sug-
gested the expedent of frightening them with
horrid pictures of the war of races that they
will bring on by persisting to cast then
votes solidly in favor Of the Republicans,
and of telling them that the only way to
avoid such calamities and to demonstrate
their capability to exercise the right of suf-
frage intelligently, they must divide their
vote. 1t is unnecessary to dwell on the per-
fidy of this advice, the more so as it is neu-
tralized by its absurdity, but just by this
absurdity it adds insult to treachery, in so
far as it supposes the negro to be so utterly
lacking of sense and judgment, nay of cor
rect instructive feeling, as to be entrapped by
palpable falsehoods. Indeed, the mere sup
position places the negro not only below the
level of the lowest kind of savages, but even
below that of the animal, since animals know
enough to distinguish friends from foes, and
will never desert their benefactors to seek
protection from the hands of those whom eX-
perience has taught them to look upon as
prosecutors. They also show, without being
told, that they know that union is strength,
division weakness; for the horses and bufia-
loes of the desert band together at the APP
a solid front. Nevertheless the negro is
deemed stupid enough to be made to believe
that Horatio Seymour, Fernando Wood, j..
R. Doolittle, Frank Blair, who has declared
the fifteenth amendment unconstitutional,
Lyman Trumbull and Carl Schurz, the oppo-
nents of the Ku- Klux bill and Of the supple
mentary civil rights bill, because headed by
Horace Greeley, the Janusheaded, are better
friends to him than General Grant and the
whole army of his adherents, stupid enough
to believe Grant corrupt man, guilty OF
high crimes and misdemeanors," for being
willing to comply with the ardent wishes of
the people of Santo Domingo, for appointing
few of his relatives to offices, and for not re-
moving his father from the high and influential
position of POSTMASTER in Covington, to which
he was appointed by Andrew johnson. He
is deemed stupid enough to believe that
division will strengthen him, or in other
words, that two men pulling in opposite
directions will accomplish more than when
they work in concert!
The insult of thus placing the Blacks be-
low the lowest level of humanity is only
equalled by the insolence and arrogance OF
those who venture to advise them in this
sense. Who are they and what have they
done to assume that they should be listened
to with any degree Of confidence and defer
ence? Are their antecedents of such ma
ture as to warrant the belief that they are
animated by sincere concern for the rights
and the welfare Of the colored people; and
that their counsels will prevail over those Of
Gerrit Smith, Wendell Phillips, and w. Lloyd
Garrison, men whose lives have been devoted
to the cause of negro liberty and equality
Among all the advocates of Greeley and of q
division of the colOred vote, Charles Sum.
ner is in fact the only man who, on the
strength Of glorious record, has just claims
on the gratitude, the love, and confidence q
the Blacks; but he is too evidently and
strongly Influenced by passion and personal
resentment to be looked upon any longer as
a safe and cOOl-headed guide, and since his
letter to the cOlored voters has fallen like 8
spent bullet, as is generally admitted, it i.
easily imagined how little impression will b,
produced by the demonstrations of feigne.
tenderness and concern for the colored PEG
pie which at once shower over them from
Democratic sources.
One of the most hypocritical, and at tn,
same time most arrogant displays of lovin:
solicitude, is made by Edward A. Pollard, il
long article: g A word of solemn warnin.
to the negro" Most pathetically he assures
the Blacks of his warm friendship, and fer
vently-so to say, with tears in his eyes
beseeches them, appeals to their intelligence
to divide their vote unless they want to for
feit all credit given them for Judgment ant
independence; he further points at the ole
bugbear of a war Of races, insolently advises
the negro to let alone party politics ant
devote himself only to his peculiar and domi
nant interest, namely, labor, yet in the sam.
breath tells him that the Greeley movement
is his last chance to vindicate himself as AT
intelligent voter, and winds up with an in
direct threat, lest the Liberals, if victorious
in spite of the colored vote, may again de
prive him of his rights, as they doubles
would do if they had the power, and con
cludes with formidable Bewareu,
Tp appreciate fully the brazen arrogance O
Mr.. Pollard, our readers must remember tina
he is the author of g The life IF Je6erso
Daris, ieiM secret history Of the Souther
Contederacy," a book rs interesting for tn
view it offers into the sanctuary of rebeldom
as for its vivid and attractive picture of mel