New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-03
Sumner and Pinchhncl.

We reproduce the subjOined special dis
patch from the St. Louis Republican:
WASHINGTON, July Ex-senator Summers
residence, always place Of popular resort
10 day has been thTOnged with people, black
and white, who visited him to learn OF the
truth of the statement that lie was about
publicly and finally TO declare himself in
iavOr of Greeley. There have been 50
many histories to this effect lately, that pop
uar incredulity needed assurances from
the Senator's own lips that there was any
more foundation for this latter rumOr than
its scores of predt cessors. To all such visit
Ors and inquiries to-day the Massachusetts
Senator had but one reply to make. He
said that he had never halted or hesitated
in his sympathies in the present campaign
but only as to the manner and prOpriety of
giving them expression. The letter which
be was about to make public was the result
of careful il vestigatiOn into all the issues
entering into the present campaign, and the
sentiments there put forth were the honest
convictions of his own conscience.
PRESSURE UPoN HIM.
In conversation with your correspondent,
he said that no man could tell the pressure
brought to bear upon him from all quarters
since the Baltimore convention to influence
his political action. In the first place, he
said, all those members Of the Grant ad-
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most friendly terms, came to him with their
. specious pleas and arguments, urging him,
for the sake Of consistency, to stand by the
nominee Of the regular Republican party,
as IT, observed the Senator, with a smile,
there could be any consistency in my pre-
ferring to support a man who had always
been a Republican, like Greeley, to one
who had never voted the Republican ticket,
as Grant once boosted. There would
Anvun fhnu a lalnwn finn of b1a old
political friends, associates and neighbOrs
from Massachusetts, who, with hands up
raised, would beseeCh him not to abandon
the old Republican organization in which
he had won so many tTiumphs; and again,
he would be pestered with a horde of sharp
negro politicians and pet-baggers, who
would fight the war all over again, and dis
cuss the very issues which the Baltimore
convention decided were buried forever.
There has been nothing like it," said the
Senator, sin my experience before; but"
he continued, II have kept steadily in view
the principles involved in the present strug-
gle, and have not allowed myself to be
swayed by other influences than my clear
convictions of duty TO my country and to
myself"
OTHER AcCEssIOEs TO COME.
He said that he had been in correspond
ence with the principle men in all parts of
the country, and felt assured that many
more Republicans who had been yet still, of
equal prominence with himself were in
sympathy with the Greeley movement, and
would take an early occasion to declare
themselves to that effect.
THE COLoRED PEOPLE.
Az to his colOred wards, he says he now
teels perfect UnsOlicitude on that score. He
says ne had assurances from the best
Democrats in the country, who were in
high reputation and honor, men whose
words are as good as their bonds, men who
went into secession COnsCientiOusly, and
who fought CALAMITY and who resisted the
new order OF things 20 long as resistance
availed anything, that the negroes should
fare quite az well at the hands IF the Dem
oeTats as the Republicans, and that equal
rights for all men were as much the
watChwOrd for either party, as it was
in the respective platforms. If my
letter, which is given 10 the public to
day does not sufficiently define my position
and show where / stand continued the
Senator, "a reply which | sent to Lieuten-
ant Governor PimchbaCk, of louisiana this
morning, may be regarded in the light of
decided committal. Pncbback telegraphed
to know whether | was going to support
Greeley. | replied instantly as follows: My
watchwOTd for the pending campaign is the
unity of the republic, with equal rights for
all and reconciliation, as represented BY
Horace Greeley"
rINCHBACK FOR GREELEY.
1t is iutimated that Plpcbback himself
who has been claimed as stro- Grant
man, but desired this avOwal in order 10
place himself under the Greeley banner.
Being cOlOred man himself, Piuchback's
decision will have an important influence
on the colored element IN his State.