The semi-weekly Republican. (St. Francisville, La.) 1872-1872, 1872-07-26
Rep,,diating Grant.

ELECTuR WrrHDaAWS FROM THE TICKET
AND LEAVES THE RECOMMENDATION PARTY
WHY THE COLoRED MEN CAN NOT
SUPPORT G1sANT-1NCONsIsTEN OF
TNE PHILADELPHIA PLArFORM-TOO
MANY INDEFINITE PRoMIsEs-MEN CT
ALL PARTIES CAN SUPPORT THE C1NC1N-
NATI TICKET AND NOMINEES
[Trom the New York Trbune.1
BALTIMORE, July 8.-A bombshell
was thrown into the administration
camp in Baltimore this afternoon by
the publication of the following let
ter from the colored candidate on
the Grant electoral ticket of this
State, from the fourth congressional
district. 1t is reported that Mr..
Saunders will carry with him to the
Liberal Republican party a great
number of colored voters
BALTIMORE, July s, 1872.
To Hon. Henry Stockbridgc, Chairman baltimore
City Delegation to the late Republican conven-
S1R-Please accept for yourself
and colleagues from the fourth con-
gressional district to the late con-
vention of April "a, 1872, my CRATE
full thanks for the conspicuous favor
conferred by placing my name on
the Grant electoral ticket, and the
assurance Of my kindly appreciation
of this and other marks of confidence
during my participation i'll the poll
tics of my native State. Aprofound
senes of duty to my race and the de-
mands of an unselfish patriotism SUI
perior to mere partisan requirements
compel me decline the honor and
seven my connection with the Grant
wing Of the Republican party.
l entertain the hope that at no
distant day colored men, as Ameri-
can citizens, will rise superior to the
apparent selfshncss of their past po-
litical action, which has too often
been characterized by adhesion to
men instead of devotion to princi-
pies, and that they will fully COM
prehend the sacredness of the ballot
and the higher duty OF citizenship
1t is but natural that in the past col
ored voters should have been consol-
idated within the ranks of that par
ty through whose instrumentality
their rights were in part secured,
particularly when the party was it.
self o unit and the rights of the col
ored citizen made a political issue
but now when some of the best men
and brightest spirits of that party
decline to act with it, and join with
other citizens in the formation of a
newer and better party with more
advanced and more practical ideas,
within whose ranks the rights of all
men are assured, it is an open ques-
ton whether the Liberal Republican
party is not after all the true Repub-
lican party of the country. Now
that all men of whatever creed OF
political opinion accept the situation,
recognize the rights of oil men, and
guarantee their maintainance, it is
but fair to suppose that the times is
really come to permit the "dead
past to bury its dead" and for all yo-
ters to come up to that comprehen-
siye platform which, while recogniz-
ing the equity of equal rights, gives
promise of perpetual peace and pros
perity to the whole country. In the
coming presidential campaign it is OF
the last Importance that colored men
cast of the letters of political vassal-
age, ignore the tyranny of false
and vicious party discipline, and,
like all other men. exercise their po-
litical franchise according to the die
tates Of an enlightened and untram-
meled judgment.
Even were it possible for me to
remain on your ticket, I could not
approve and abet the bitter and con-
tinued factional warfare for which
the great party in Maryland is re-
markable, and which is a dominant
characteristic of that party in every
State in the Union. Neither would
r m anv consideratiOn lend mVsel1