The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1872-08-08
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Mr. Sumner.

As we stated when Mr.. Sumner made
bis last attack upon the President, the
picture IL 30 distorted as 70 be essen-
TALLY untrue. II tho President of the
Uuited states were the thing that Mr..
Sumner describes, there you'd ~ hut
one voice In the country, and that for
his instant and disgrace eful expulsion
from ONCE. But having such an opin-
lon Of him, and having stated it in his
place In the Senate. there remains but
one course for Mr.. Sumner to pursue.
The alternatives offered to him. % to
all of us, are the reelection Of General
Grant or the election Of Mr.. Greeley.
But - to support for the Presidency
such monster Of ignorance, incapaci-
ty, and corruption Is Mr.. Sumner des-
cribes the President to be- would be the
worst of political crimes, 30 not to OPP
pose his election by every honorable
means would be only less crime. Mr..
Sumner must, therefore, II would seem
engage actively i'm the canvass for Mr..
Greeley.
1t is cruel necessity. For to do this
he must join hands with Vance, Wade
Hampton, and every one of his asso.
ciates in the Senate OF the United
States who have ridiculed aud opposed
what he thinks To be the browning
work Of his life his Supplementary
Civil Rights bill. To do this he must
deliberately declare that he believes
the rights of the c0lored race TO be
more secure in the hands which struck
him down in the Senate for pleading
their cause, and with the party which,
until the very close Of the late session,
resisted bis own efforts for equality,
than with the party to which that race
owes its freedom, aud which has pro-
tected 1t and 10 protecting Il now. Mr..
Sumner knows that the Republican
party has made no pledge to the color
ed race which the President has not
honorably redeemed. He knows that
the coIored Convention In New Or
leans recognized and acknowledged
this truth. He knows that Frederick
Douglass, the most representative lead
er Of his people eloquently declared
the Republican party to be the deck
and ell else the sea. and that Douglass
warmly and efficiently favors the re-
election Of the President.
Mr.. Sumner knows that at the Phil
adelphia Convention the most earnest
and eloquent speeches were made by
the colored delegates, and that they
declared with the deepest feeling that
their only hope lay in the reelection
OF General Grant. Mr.. Summer knows
also that when Mr.. Voorhees,, q bitter
Copperhead Of the war, accused Mr..
Greeley OF favoring Mr.. Summers bill
for equality in the public schools. Mr..
Greeley's own paper hastened to quote
from his Poughkeepsie speech to show
that Mr.. Voorhees, had misrepresented
him. And Mr.. Sumner knows that If
the cause to which his life has been
devoted required the defeat
of the Democratic party when Mr..
Breckenridge, General Mcclellan, aud
Mr.. Seymour were its candidates, Its
defeat 10 none the less required cow
because Mr.. Greeley il its candidate.
Which does Mr.. Summer think to be
the more probable, that the Democrat
ic party will be Republicanized by vot-
ing for Mr.. Greeley, or that Mr.. Gree
ley, ~ President, must make an Ad-
to suit those who elect
him, or feebly and imr"tently protest?
It is cruel positioa, in which 40
friend of Mr.. Sumter can see him
without sorrow. To insist, as he did in
his speech Of the 3l-t of May, that the
nomination al the President at Phila-
delphia would re.easr every Repubii-
can from any obligation 10 support
him, was to forget that no reasonable
man will ever be bound in public ac-
tion by anything but what seems to
him to be the public welfare while
TO assert that the reelection
Of General Grant would be the greatest
that could befall the coun-
try, was 10 expose himself to the tor
ture Of his present position = namely,
. logical compulsion to advocate the
to power Of the bitterest en-
emies of equal rights and Of the color
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