The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-04-25
Horace Greeley 20 the CoIored

The following letter was addressed By
Mr.. Greeley, of the New York Tribune,
to the Superintendent of Public Schools
In Louisiana. 1t Will be seen that he
thinks the colored people ought all to
join the movement of the Liberal Re-
pubIicans, and thus, while making sure
of the preservation of their civil and po-
litical rights, absolve themselves from the
odium and disgr ce of earpet-bag-scala-
wag domination.
He says, correctly, that the iniquities
of this rule are due to the mean white
demagogues who have set themselves up
as leaders Of the negroes whom they have
employed as beasts of burden for their
own uses.
Cincinnati viii afford the colored peo-
pie the opportunity of indicating the
privileges which they naturally cherish
for themselves, and at the same time of
manifesting their opposition to the plum
der and political prescription of the
whites. They will remember that this
advice of Mr. Greeley comes from the
founder of the Republican party and the
earliest and most steadfast advocate of
their freedom. If they decide not to
take it, they will simply be left out in
the cold with malignant faction of de-
feated Ofice-holders and Proscriptionists,
after the Presidential election Pres
ent appearances indicate that the Liberal
movement will win. The people are
getting tired of the dead issues of the
war-of political disfranchisement and
persecution-of military rule and its
cruel and unconstitutional practices in
the time of peace-of corruption and
extravagance-and they intend to put
the party through which takes its ticket
on that line. Do the colored people
intend to array themselves against thi:
movement contrary to the advice of the
oldest Republicans and their most stead.
fast friends in the North? They have
an abiding interest in the result; and
We advise them, if they are not noat
prepared to take up the standard of Lib
eralism, to watch and wait
From the N. o. Republican.
Hon. Thomas w. Conway, of this city
| recently addressed letter to Mr. Greeley
asking an expression of his judgment as to
the course which Republicans in the South
should pursue in regard to the Cincinnati
| convention. and especially as to the bear
| ings of the Liberal movement on the inter
ests of the colored people, for whose well
! fare Mr.. Conway expressed his usual earnest
anxiety. The following reply has been re-
ceived and will be perused with interest:
New YORK TRIBUNE OFFICE.
New York. March Is 1S72I
| Hon. Thomas W. Conway, New Orleans:
/ | have yours of the twenty-first instant
| answer briefly. L think the colOred peo-
! pie will be benefited by and should sympa-
| thiZe with the Cincinnati movement, be-
| cause il tends 10 free them from the Odium
of completely with the villainies and rob-
| berries which have been perpetrated in the
abused name of Republicanism during the
past five or six years. especially in the South.
! The monstrous eXaggeration of taxes and
/ debts in most of the Southern States is the
| fruit of white villainy. The thieves who
! perpetrated these robberieS are now seeking
| To escape the Just punishment for their
crimes by bawling Justify, Grant Grant
| I'm for Grant! Hurrah for Gr1nt!'
The Cincinnati convention is AT deadly
| feud with these robbers and their evIi deeds.
| Let the honest and upright culored men
| join it, then. and thus rid themselves ut
crimes which they did not commit and
| which others only have perpetrated.
Yours, HORACE GREELEY.