Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-08-02

speaking tor the black race, MI. sumner
or Fred Douglass? Mr.. Douglass went to
San Domingo, investigated the case upon
which Mr.. Sumner founded his allegations,
came back satisfied with the course Of the
President. and is supporting him ably with
voice and pen in the canvass. Mr.. Sum-
ner stoops 80 far as to repeat an old tale
Of personal indignity offered to Mr..
Douglass by President Grant, to show that
the latter is naturally averse to people Of
color. and therefore should not be sup
ported by them. If Mr.. Douglass had
been insulted by the President he would
probably have felt as keenly about it and
resented it as sharply as Mr.. Sumner, but
he knows no such insult or he would not
turn his back upon Greeley and Sumner to
give his best service for Grant and Wilson.
What force or justice or even decency is
there in Mr.. Summers pretended defence
of Fred Douglass and his race in the mat
ter? The insult is upon Mr.. Summers side
not upon that of the President
Having blackened the character of the
President SO as to make him as offensive
as possible to the negroes, Mr.. Sumner
tency hedging Greeley around as the dem
ocratic candidate so that he may be &C.
ceptable in his present strange company
and surroundings to his old friends.
Right manfully he goes to work to show
that Mr.. Greeley in accepting a demo-
cratic nomination has not become demo-
crat; that the great democratic party has
come over to him and not he to it; that
the tail wiggles the dog and not the dog
the tail that the singing Of John Brown
in the Baltimore Convention (where they
had Dixie" too) was the sign and guar
antee of the repentance and conversion
of the whole democratic host. Let the
democrats answer this. who say Greeley
has been converted to their party as St.
Paul was converted. Not solitary case
is on record where any prominent demo-
crat has acknowledged that his party has
changed, but all agree that Mr.. Greeley
has.
Only the other day Mr.. Golloday of
Tennessee, simon-pure democrat, told
his constituents that in accepting Greeley
the democracy had not abandoned their
principles or ignored their record in the
past. They recognized the recent amend.
ments to the constitution as an existing
fact, in the same sense that we recogn'-e
the killing Of Abel by Cain or the betray-
ing of Christ by Judas, but the democra.
cy do not believe the amendments are just
or constitutionally adopted. Can the well
fare OF the colored race be entrusted to a
party holding views like these? Let the
colored people beware of those who urge
them to take the risk tits the advice of an
enemy though it comes from Charles Sum
ner.
The remainder of Mr.. Summers letter
is transparently demagogical. He pre-.
tends that the convention which nominal.
ed Grant and Wilson had no support from
the people and that the Cincinnati and
Baltimore Conventions were full of hon.
est and pure men. Since it is we'll known
that Tammany and the ku-Klux were the
ruling elements in the conventions which
nominated Mr.. Greeley. there is no need
of spending words to correct the wrong
ideas of Mr.. Sumner. In closing Mr..
Sumner clasps hands with Mr.. Hendricks
the democratic Senator from Indiana, and
thus winds up letter which is practically
at war with his whole record as public
man, would lead the colored people into
reinstatement could the Greeley move
ment succeed, and bring unutterable woe
upon the country.
THAT LIBERAL REPUBLICAN CALL !
At length the liberal republican call for
congressional convention in this district
has made its appearance. Its coming has
been heralded far and near. 1t has been
likened to an earthquake. We think some
of the more enthusiastic expected an
eclipse of the sun when the great event
WV" p"N's ohb cthVts WCIC satiSuCu with
imagining that it might only turn the Ken
nebec running up stream, and bring out
brilliant display of northern lights.
The work of canvassing for this great
performance commenced in earnest about
four weeks ago. Every sorehead in the
district engaged In it with the greatest
alacrity. The district has been secured
from end to end and side to side for SIGN.
ers, and blue or gray. black or white,
voter or non-voter, willing or unwilling,
whose name could oe made to stick by any
sort of jugglery, has been enrolled. We
give these soreheaded canyassers the
credit of laboring diligently though in a
very poor cause. We think their boots
will need tapping and their consciences
repairing after their arduous efforts. But
they have worked we'll. They needed to.
Our whlom friend Lang, for man who
takes no part in politics, did duty valiantly.
We hope he will have time now to