The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-07-19
President and were ''inlormally' invited
to dine with him.

President and were informally invited
to dine with him.
Twill speak Of but one other unlustih-
able attempt on the part Of Mr.. Sumner
70 depreciate the President. BE saws that
Mr., Stanton, our eminent War Secretary.
exclaimed. ale (President Grant, cannot
govern this country Doubtless, M.
Stanton said this-for NJ. Sumner Is a man
oil truth. But who was Mr.. Stanton
when he said itI-a dying man-ahis
hands" as Mr.. Sumner says, ALREADY
clammy cold" Very unjust was 1t In
MIR. Sumner to repeat and lay stress upon
these words-Yery unjust both to Mr.,
Stanton and 10 the President. Strange
thOughts-thoughts contradictory 10 the
tenor and habit Of his whole liie-do
sometimes tlirt through the brain OF a
dying man. Emphatically so was Il In
the case OF Mr.. Stanton-lor abundant Is
the evidence that when he was in health,
and even down to his fatal sickness, he
spoke Of the President In terms OF excel
lent praise. These words, when Mr..
Sumner has 80 imprudently and unau.
thorizedly repeated, should DO allowed TO
weigh nothing either against Mr.. Stan.
toms consistency or President Grants
ability. 7 u
Let US, my neighbors, instead Of dis.
paraging President Grant and dwelling
upon the few errors 10 his administration,
be thankful that he makes US so wise and
safe President. Very foolish is the man
who, instead Of enjoying the light and
heat Of tho sun, spends all his days In
housing after and magniiying the spots
upon 1t.
I close with saying that we must have
Grant for our President a few years long.
or. The anti.slaverY battle Is not yet
fought out-nor will II be so long as
single shred of Ku.kluxism remains nor
SO long as there ore persons who are de.
prived on account Of their complexion, oil
so much as one civil right. Let 1t not be
said that the negro, having gained most
of his rights, Is content to live without
the remainder. The more nearly he
gains them oil, the more discontented and
grieved he will be II any one Of them
is still withheld from him. Such Is hu.
man nature.
1.-THE pris'ner sent TO breathe fresh air,
And taste Of liberty again,
Would mourn wero he condemned TO wear
One link OF oil his former chain"
We can trust the Republican party with
Grant at its head to finish this great work
which it has begun. But we speak in
the light Of the past and unchanged char.
acter OF the Democratic patty when we
say that If 1t come again into power, and
with whatever person at its head, the
black man will again be outraged-and il
possible, re.enslaVed; the national debt
repudiated, or the Confederate debt, in.
GLIDING the price Of emancipated slaves,
be assumed and put upon q par with 1t;
and, in short, the half million Of lives and
five thousand million of dollars expended
in putting down the rebellion and estab.
fishing the equal rights OF all men will
have been expended in vain.
Is there black man, either at the
North or at the South, who Is inclined
TO vote the Democratic ticket? He had
better die than do it. He had better die
than so wrong his race and so wrong us,
whose lives have been lives Of suffering
and sacrifice for the redemption and wei:
fare Of his race. viii not William LLOYD
Garrison and his fellow.laborers have liv.
ed in vain, if now, at the last, the black
man for whom they have lived shall turn
against them and go over TO their and the
black mans enemy