Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-05-16
Fred Douglass on the Greeley
5 Ticket. a -f9f

FROM Lno New national Era.
Let the country know that the Gin
cinnad movement is only the thin veil
to conceal the grim features of the old
Democratic party, and that the conflict
Is, after al, not between Cincinnati and
Philadelphia, but between the princi-
pies OF the Republican party and those
OF the Democracy, and the old spirit of
freedom and loyalty will burst forth
again, bearing grant and Colfax, or who
ever may be the candidates of the par
ty, triumphantly to their high places.
or course, MeSsrs. Greeley and Brown
cannot hope to be taken up by their
old assOciates-whom they have abused
and deserted-going out from them be-
cause no longer of them. Having
sought to scuttle the ship-and tailed
they cannot suppose that her passen-
gers and hands will now turn around
and vote to give them command.
They who boast that they have 'tburIt
their ships" must now be content to
stay on the other side.
But we are told that the people, the
honest people, will rush to the polls in
November and elect Greeley and
Brown. Nonsense all The people
care but little for theorists. They are
plain and practical. They take. no
steps in the dark. They are neither
/ Icapable of political miracles nor be-
levers in them. They send no mis-
sionaries to the moon, and are quite
content to remain on this planet, with
out repining because they cannot be
here and there at the same time. There
is nothing in the Cincinnati ticket OF
the Cincinnati platform that can cause
a second rush. ss-L
We cannot see, for the life of us, what
class of men will be likely now to rush
to the support of Mr.. Greeley. There
was time when the friends of high
protective tariff might have SO rushed;
but who believes now that Mr.. Greeley
cares anything for the tariff after his
letter to the -Conventien,- plainly de
signed to capture the free trade vote
: Republicans cannot support him, fol
he is no longer Republican. The reb
, els might support him, in recognition
, of his bailing Jefferson Davis, anC
steadily shouting for universal amnesty
but rebels are not made of that forgivine
stuff. They remember the old man;
. cry of son 10 Richmond" and his fiery
] appeals for vigorous prosecution o
/, the War, too well either to forget or for
1 give. The Labor Reformers canno
i rally for him, because they have alread,
Y a candidate. The temperance mel
o caunot very well support Mr.. Greeley
because they see him plainly in leag1,
with those who like, and must .hav,
e their lager. s,s 1ssil 3
:. Without multiplying words, w
: speak as colored man, one who ha
q no interest in public affairs higher thai
e the freedom and elevation of our lon
T enslaved race, we say frankly to ou
3 Cincinnati friends, we cannot supper
!. your candidates. bea 3
10 Coiored men are MT so rich in poll
!, ical influence and power that they ca
: afford at this time to throw either ava
# upon men who, however excellent
II plainly cannot be elected. We have n
- votes to throw away. When we vot
is now, we should, and will, vote for viz
n tory as well as for great principle
The fire is kindled for the colore
chiId's school house in all the Gu
n. States, the knife of the Ku-Klux assa;
: sin is ready for the throats of the colore
10 men of the South. Cincinnati holds OF
n, no assurance of protection from fire an
a death. In fact, the Cincinnati move
m lment wrests the colored mans libert
= from the custody of the nation, tn
u only power that cares for it, and put
lr it into the hands of local government
lg which would gladly destroy it. Ca
4 lany colored man mistake the meanin
n of that plank in the Cincinnati pla
vi form? No; the time has not yet com
l. to exchange Old friends and trusted IL
ct tlstrumentalities for new ones. What
m an office here or there in compariso
"a with the maintainance of the freedoI
~ and progress of five million of people
a so beset with hardships and dangers {
e. ours are? From the depths of our SO,
ct we entreat every colored man to stan
;, firmly at the Republican flag, and b
:. - the men that party is bound to offer fl
rl- YOUR Guffrana