The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-09-07

following letter written by colored man
which will we'll repay perusal for the many
sharp points it makes, as we'll as a literary
eff'usion. Summers famous letter, stating
why colored men should vote for Greeley
didn't contain half the solid reasoning for
that this letter does against, that PROPOSE
/ ton:
/ SADDLE RIVER, n. J., July 80, 1872
Thanks to the great Republican party,
and to President Grant, new era has
dawned upon the colored people of New
/ Jersey, and for the first time in our lives
we are about to vote in a Presidential cleo
ton. This being the case, the question is
presented to us, shall this our first vote
be cast for the party to which we owe the
great boon of citizenship, or shall it be
cast for the party that has always opposed
1t? To such II question as this, is it pos
sible that there can be anything but one
| answer?
( have been careful student of politics
for the last sixteen years, and therefore
fully understand the subject before us. l
think, however, there is not a colored man
! in the State who does not know by bitter
! experience what the Democratic party is.
| If others can forget it, l never shall; and
the party whose atrocious principles have
/ blighted and embittered all the best days
of my life, and darkened all my future,
can never receive my support. In all its
history, the tears of suffering humanity
never moved the Democratic party to pity.
Always it has been the bitter, malignant
enemy of the colored man. Always it has
been the party Of the slave whip and the
auction block. Always its cry has been:
"Down with the Niger" No act so
mean that the Democratic party did not
resort to it to injure us. With every lie
that a malignant foe could invent they STIR
red up hate against us; everywhere we
were liable to insult; and much of the time
they made it unsafe for colored man,
woman or child to walk on the Streets
Against allowing us to vote, they have yell
led till they were black in the face. Year
after year, for many years, presented my
petition to the Legislature of this State
asking the right of suffrage, and year aft
er year they scornfully rejected it. Only
year or two ago, if we had met to talk
about voting, we never would have left the
room alive! A Democratic mob would
have murdered us on the spot, and burned
the building over our heads. The New
York riots of 1868 show you what the
Democratic party is when it has the power.
Now, however, they put on smiles, they
inform US that they were always our best
friends, they kindly advise you what can
ddate you ought to vote for, and some, l
believe, insist on sleeping with you; but
too late. We know them too we'll. The
blood of our people is on the skirts of that
party; all the waters of the ocean can new
er wash away the stain; and no colored
man, true to the interest of his people, can
ever give it vote. True, Horace Greeley
is the Democratic candidate; and such be-
ing the case, if they deserved any pity,
would pity the party reduced to such an
extremity as to hurrah for the old hat and
coat they have spit upon for thirty years;
but the candidacy of Greeley cannot de-
ceive any man who does not want to be
deceived. Two Kentuckians, it is said,
were once served with Goldfish balls 1T
New England hotel, and one of them TAX
ing it for "corn-dodger hastily broke
one of the balls in two. but the instant he
got the smell, dropped it, exclaiming:-
Something dead in that dodger, Tom."-
So in this Greeley case. There is some
thing dead and rotten in the Republican,
who for the sake of getting into Office joins
hands with such party as the Democratic
party. 1t is said, however, by our Demo-
cratic friends that Horace Greeley is the
father of the Republican party. deny
the assertion. That great party owes its
origin to no single man. There were
thousands and tens of thousands of truer
and better men than Greeley engaged in
its formation, foremost among whom stood
Henry Wilson. the Republican candidate
for the Vice Presidency. care not, how
ever, if Greeley were the grandfather ofthe
party; he is by nature utterly unfit for the
high office to which he aspires, and would
now undo all the good he has ever done,
and to crafty his vanity and seltishness
would again betray US into the hands of
our lifelong enemies. Once Judas was an
honored disciple; but what Judas has been,
is of less Importance than what Judas now
is. To-day see Horace Greeley trying to
stir up old prejudices and to revive the old
Democratic mob spirit by the deliberate
lie that we enjoy greater degree OF free
dom than white people; that while colored
people are free, white people are in slavery;
and that Greeley will emancipate them so
that the whites shall be as free as we are.
Now, when Horace can descend to trickery
and villainy like this (of which | believe
| thousands of true Democrats will be heart
| lily ashamed, if Greeley has no shame him.
| self what wonder that Jeff. Davis and
every unlcpentant rebel is for Greeley; and
what wonder that such men as Isaiah
Rynders, who led the bowling mobs against
the unoffending colored people in New
York in 1885, and John L. Andrews, who
headed the riots in 1861 when colored men
were hung to the lamp-posts and burned
in the public squares of New York city,
what wonder that such men, who are a
disgrace even to the name of Democrat,
should be loud mouthed Greeley men, and
like Greeley and Tammany Hall very much
in favor of Reform.
Now word about the Republican party.
1t is the party of Liberty, of Loyalty and
of Lincoln. 1t is the party that broke
down the rebellion, destroyed slavery, saw
ed the Union and gave the country peace.
Its candidate again is General Grant, the
great commander, to whom the country
owes debt of gratitude it can never pay.
And now, if there be in the country one
colored man who would vote against
Grant, let him remember that but for
President Grant and the Republican party,
he would have had no vote to give to any.