Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1872-08-13

PoSIby W AdduStls III pIOlcCilnS COi-
Ored people or assuring peace to the
South. After violating the Constitu-
ton and international law to insult
the black Republic, and setting an eX-
| amp'e of INSTRUMENTATION, he was not
IN condition to rebuke law-break-
ers. t,
Mr.. Sumner then considers the present
condition of the two candidates. Each
was nominated by Republican Con-
Vention, lie lauds the material COM
posing the Cincinnati Convention.
Comparing the character of the sup
porters of the two candidates, he says
the country knows toofwell the mil
Itary ring, senatorial ring, and Gus
tOm-house ring, through which the
President acts. Such supporters are a
very poor recommendation. He says
it is idle to say that Horace Greeley
and the Republicans who nominated
him at Cincinnati are any less repub-
lican because Democrats unite with
them in the support of cherished prin-
cipals and the candidates who repre-
sent them, -ttt ~ -t'fI =.
Mr.. Sumner says the hardihood of
political falsehood reaches its extreme
point when it is asserted that under
Horace Greeley the freedmen will he
re-enslaved, or that colored people will
in any way suffer in their equal rights.
On the contrary, they have in his
election not only the promise of the
platform, but also the splendid exam
pie for full generation, during which
he has never wavered in the assertion
of their rights. TO suppose that Hor-
ace Greeley, when placed where he
can do the most good, will depart from
the rule of his honest life is an insult
to reason. 1t is none the less idle to
suppose that Democrats supporting
Horace Greeley expect or desire that
he should depart from those principles
which are the glory of his character
They have accepted the Cincinnati
platform, with its two-fold promise,
and intend in good faith to maintain
it.
Mr.. Sumner concludes as follows:
GentleDen.-In thus answering
your two inquiries, / have shown why
you, as colored fellow-citizens, and al
so all who would uphold your rights
and save the colOred race from indig-
nifty, should refuse to sanction the
reelection of the President, and put
your trust in Horace Greeley. / ought
to add that with him will be associa-
ted as Vice President, Gratz Brown,
whom | have known for years as
most determined abolitionist The
two together will carry into the Ma
tional Government an answering de-
votion to your rights, not to lie distur-
bed by partisan dictation or sectional
prejudice.
besides all this, which may fifty
guide you in determining between
the two candidates, it is my duty to
remind you that as citizens of the
United States, and part of the country
yonr welfare is indissolubly associated
with that of the whole coautrY.-
Where all are prosperous you will
he gamers. Therefore, while Justly
careful of your own rights, you cannot
be Indifferent to the blessings of good
government. 1t is for you to consider
whether the time has not come for
better than the sword, and
whether a G. .aracter like that of Hor-
ace Greeley does not give stronger as
surance of good government than can
be found in the insulter of the cOlored
race already famous for the rings about |
him and his plain inaptitude for civil
life.
speaking now for myself. I have
to say that my vote will be given for
Greeley, but in giving it do
not go to the Democratic party, nor
am | any less a Republican. On the |
| anl so much Of a Republi- |
eau that | cannot support candidate
whose conduct in civil life shows an
TO appreciate Republican |
principles, and whose administration |
is marked by acts of delinquency, e5-
pecially towards the colorcd race, by |
the side of which the allegations on
the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson |
were technical and TRIVIAL.
1.-The present position of the cOlored |
citizen is perilOus. He is exposed to |
injurious pressure wien he needs sup
port, but | see no early extraction |
except in the way proposed. Let |
him cut adrift from managers who |
would WELD him merely as n political |
force, without any regard to his own |
good, and bravely stand by the candi- |
date tGTeeley,) who has stood by him. |
If Democrats unite with him, so much |
The better. The associated once be-
gun must naturally ripen i'll common
and trust. 'E