The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-08-21
A Celssed nIan's Plea
G Edilor Of The state Journal :

10 the Eftfqr e The Stat ts,' Journal
Whether General Grant or Horace Gree
ley baeieesed1to tho Presidency in Noyem-
Der, the cifil rights Of The white man will
in no particular be impaired. The fullest
enjoyment Of the natural rights SO appro-
priately placed in the opening sentence of
the Declaration Of Independence, will con-
tiuue to be assured him. In the event of
Greeley,s ascendeney, the Republicans
who support him, and who are more inter-
estediin theafesh pots OF office than the
maintainahce Of peace and good govern
ment, will suffer disappointment, since It is
but fair to supposethat Herace's voraeious
Democratic cohorts, after being out OF
power so long, will insist that every avail
able placesbe given them. That other, and
by far,greaternumbe of good Republicans,
who would Have government just and true
to all classes, and who realize the fact that
the government owesoa debt to the negro,
the interest of which it has paid in his en-
reimbursement, and in the suffrage, will be
disappointed also by the injustice of Gree
ey's constituency; who believe that in ac-
cording civil Rights and the itnmunities Of
office to the negro, they have encouraged
"negro equality a thing they affect to de-
spise. Should Greeley be elected then the
rights ofthe white people allover the coun-
try will remain ,inyiolable as ever. But on
the other hand, ia the reelection of Grant
and WILSON, not only will the rights of the
white fietaitaiaifi intact, but perfect equality
will BIZ shared BY all7-the colored man as
well as the white man. Then VIC shall
have a glorious. future before US. The
black man whose rights before the law are,
by reason ofes Republican Legislation, the
same on the 81 book as the white mans
will, BY necessary legislation, be enforced.
Without such legislation the rights of the
black man are aud will continue to be
er.worthlesS than the parchment on
which they are declared. The struggle in
which We are engaged with the party is not
for place nor for the.money thatattaches to
and grows out of place, but for our rights.
We are now citizens without any adequate
legal means within our grasp to enforce cur
citizenship We can have our citizenship
made valid only within the Republican par
ty. and for that reason we, as class, pro-
pose to be true and united on the side Of
that party in which we have faith and
hope, and in which there is charity.
Those of the race whose bushes induces
them to jeopardize our hope by joining the
Greeley Democracy for the defeat OF all our
hopes asi citizens, are deserving of politi-
cal if not natural death; and in the abb
sences Of Tie .intliction of so just a judge
ment, we call upon every black Republican,
to refuse such traitor the right of social re-
lationship, religious utilization. and to
instruct his children to recognize IN every
such miscreant an enemy to the liberty oil
themselves and their posterity.
Let them understand that If they return
at once forgiveness awaits them, but II they
delay, they must accept now and hereafter
the consequences Of their puriidy.
~. s''5 A BLACK REPUBLICAN.
Rielsmo,td, august 20, 1872. a.