The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-09-05
Parting Address Of Senator Sumner
Ne Sails for Europe.

Senator Sumner sailed from Boston on
Tuesday for Europe In the steamship Malta.
Before leaving he confded to i. w. Bird,
chairman of the Republican State Committee,
speech which he intended TO deliver at
Fanueil Hall on Tuesday night, but was pre-.
vented by ill-hcalth. The address is very
long, and is entitled "The Presidential Flee.
ton Greeley or Grant"
Mr.. Sumner says, while dealing with the
| issue before us with perfect frankness, lie can
say nothing which is not prompted by a sin
cere desire to serve the country, and espe-
cially promote that era of goodwill when
| the assent of all shall be assured to the equal
| rights Of all.
BY the operation Of our electoral system
and the dictation of the national conventions
the choice for President is narrowed to Grant
or Greeley. No preference for another could
be made effective. Prcferliug Greeley, he
states his reasons at length for believing
Grant unfit for President. His reelection
would undoubtedly be regarded aus an in
dolscment of abuses and unrepublican pre-
| tensions.
But his supporters, while admitting his
| failures, abuses, and pretensions, so notorious
| in his civil life, commend his reelection as ne
cesSary to uphold the Republican party.
The Senator's doubts as to the proper course
for him to pursue were at once removed
when he saw the Democratic party adopt the
candidate opposed to President Grant, who
was an original Republican, and already
nominated by "a Republican convention, and
ut the same time accept the Republican plat
form Oh which he was nominated.
An old party which had long stood out
against the Republican cause now placed
itself on a Republican platform, the best ever
adopted, with Republican candidate who
WAS the most devoted Republican ever nom.
mated, thus completely accepting the results
of the war and offering the hand of recon.
Citation. IN. ... ...-
In considering the reasons which favor
Greeley he finds two reasons differing in
character, but of chief importance: First,
Greeley represents the reformed civil service
with the one-term principle, without which
this reform is a sham secondly, he repre-
Sehts reconciliation, not only between sec
tons, but between races, which is essential
~ the repOSe Of the country and the safe
guard OF equal rights. TO these must be
added that he does not represent those per.
Sonal pretensiOnS SO utterly inconsistent with
republican government which are now
known ms Grantism.
Mr.. Sumner then reitentes and amplities
his previous charges of nepotism against
President Grant, condemns gift-taking, de-
nounces the San Domingo business, adyo-
Gates the one-term principle and ciyilserviee
reform. He then speaks Of reconciliation as
follows:
"From the practical question of civil SER
vice reform / pass to reconciliation, being the
most important issue ever presented to the
American people. Reconciliation not only
between two once warning sections, but also
between two races. This issue, so grand and
beautiful, was distinctly presented when Ho-
race Greeley, accepting the Republican nomi-
nation at Cincinnati, wrote these memorable
words:
/ .ra In this faith and with the distinct un.
that if elected j shall be Presi-
dent not of party, but of the whole people,
I accept your nomination in the confident
trust that the masses of our countfymeD,
North and South, are eager TO clasp hands
across the bloody chasm which has 100 long
divided them, forgetting that they have been
enemies in the Joy full consciousness that they
are aud must henceforth remain brethren"
Is LET ts HAVE FEAeE.
The issue was aeain presented, when,
aitef the Democratic partyin NATIONAL con.