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TOadyisM.

Gas the Liberal Republicans which the
South sent to Cincinnati were united for the
sage of Chappaqua, some have reason to be-
lieve so will be the Southern delegation TO the
Baltimore Convention. And if the South
can accept GREELEY, why need the North
ern Democracy make wry faces at him?"-
CoppegAead Exchange.
This is as it ever was. Whatever is pleas
ant to the South the North must aequiesce
in. We will soon again have threats from
the South of smashing up things generally if
their wishes are not followed. If the South
em Democrats are satisfied with GREELEY,
it is not to be expected that Northern Demo-
Gratis will dare say aught against him. Those
Northern Democrats who have been wishing
for return of the good old times are in fair
way ofhaving their wish gratified; they have
only to obey their Southern masters at Balti-
more and they will be in the same condition
of ,prn
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Consequential Damages.

1t must have been plain to the country
from the first, that however just might be the
claim made on this ground against Great
Britain, for the course she was pleased to
take toward us during the late civil war, the
claim itself from its very nature could not
well be complied with. Its very indefinite
ness and the differences Of opinion which
would naturally arise as to the amount of sat-
isfaction due, and the impossibility of arriving
at just conclusion, must in the end render
settlement impossible. However much the
American people may regret the failure of
this part of the American case, valuing as
they must do, the continuance of friendly re-
lations between the two countries, they will
cordially acquesce i'll the withdrawal of a
claim (if it must be withdrawn) which stands
in the way of an adjustment, otherwise not
inconsistent with the honor and dignity of the
United States or of England.
En- this matter, as in many others, General
Grant has exhibited his wisdom and his def
ercnce to the law-making power of the coun-
try, by promptly taking counsel of the Sem
ate, by whose instruction he will undoubtedly
be guided in the whole matter. .
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Teachers Meeting.

On Friday last the monthly meeting of
hall of the Stevens school house. There
were present at the meeting, Hon. PETER
CAMPBELL, Hon. FREDERICK DOUGLASS,
Hon. LEWIS III. DOUGLASS, Trustees, JOHN
SON, WORMLEY, and KING. The Super
intendent of colored schools, Mr.. Geo. F. T.
Cook, read the average of attendance on the
schools for the month of April, showing a
large and cheering increase in percentage
over the same month in last year. The dis
ciplne of the schools was shown by de-
crease in hardness on the part of the scholars
and fewer corporal punishments to be very
much improved.
HENRY JOHNSON, President of the Board,
at the conclusion of the report by the Super
intendent, introduced Hon. FREDERICK
DOUGLASS, who addressed the teachers in
short speech; he was followed by Hon.
PETER CAMPBELI0nd Prof. BARBER, of
Howard University. After remarks from
Trustees WORMLEY and KING, the teachers
came forward and received their checks for
their salaries. The meeting was interesting,
as affording evidence of the prosperity of our
schools, whose only drawback is that by be-
ing schools for colored children only, they
are instruments for keeping up a feeling of
caste which is wholly out of place in Re-
public having for its foundation principle the
Declaration of Independence.
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President Grants Letter.

The letter of President GRANT read at the
equal rights meeting last Thursday evening,
is consistent with every thing which has pro-
ceeded from him, where the rights of colored
men are concerned, and is just what we have
steadily insisted might be expected from him.
1t has been convenient for certain unfair and
miscellaneous persons, who would defeat if
they could, the denomination and reelection
of General Grant, by alternating from him the
colored citizens of the country, and by any
other means known to the art of perverson
and misrepresentation, to charge General
GRANT with hostility to the principle of Mr..
SUMMERS Civil Rights Bill. The falsehood
and injustice of this device are manifest in the
light Of this letter. If General GRANT has
one good quality, it is, that he is a man of his
word. He makes few professions and uses
no vain repetitions, but what he says he
means, and will stand by. This conviction
concerning his character is the secret of the
nations repose and prosperity. Men believe
in him even while they abuse him. When he
conquered the rebellion and recommended the
passing of the fifteenth amendment convert
ing the freedmen into voters, he accepted all
the logical consequences of both proceedings,
even to the extent of elevating colored men
to office. We entirely misapprehend the
character of the colored citizens North and
South if they do not accept this letter as the
fullest assurance that so far as Gen. GRANT
is coneesped, they are certain to have their
just and equal rights, wAenexer those rights
can be secured to them by law. ABRAHAM
LINCOLN said and did many good things while
he was President of the United States, but
nothing like this letter ever came to colored
men even from him. When now any colOred
man is asked why he clings to Gen. GRANT,
he can tell his inquirer that he so clings, be-
cause he knows of no custodian of power in
this country, more true and trustworthy
where the rights of colored men are con-
cerned than is this same General GRANT.
That what he says he means, and can al
ways be depended upon.
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WHILE glancing over our exchange list
quite recently we noticed that the Freema,'s
Journal, of Chesterown, Kent county, Mary
land, will have new name for the future,
and in place of its former title will henceforth
be called the Republican Adrocate.
Here on the eastern shore of MARYLAND.
that which in days past was so notorious for
its high handed injustice and cruelty through
the accmsed institution" and where even
now the white population but lily conceal
their contempt and hatred of the colored
race, such an enterprise as the establishment
of Republican journal is most laudable
effort when so made with the purpose to adj
vance the education, development, and highest
interests of the despised race, duly deserves
the sympathy and encouragement OF all who
are progressive in thought and action.
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The Letter Of Peter HI. Clark.

The letter of p. II. CLARK, Esq, printed
in another column, reflects the sentiments
of the thinking and influential colored men
of the country. 1t will be impossible to con-
vince the colored voters of the South that
the election of HORACE GREELEY to the
Presidency will not have the effect to open
wider the gates Of outrage and wrong upon
them. When the Explanations of exultation
by rebels and rebel sympathizers over the
prospect that in the success of Liberal Re-
publicanism will come a repeal of the laws
for the suppression of Ku-Klux becomes well
known to the colored people of the South,
(and we will do all in our power to make it
known it will be useless to expect any sup
port for GREELEY from that quarter.
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named. But his good fortune in this respect,
has not been purchased by any self-abase-
ment, or any departure from the strict line OF
public duty. Whenever and wherever ne mas
been called upon to act, his course has oeen
straightforward, firm, and unhesitating. lie
had several opportunities last weekfor show
ing his hand upon the last remaining ques-
tons Left the American people by the late
rebellion, AMI his course was every way
worthy of his high office and his brilliant
career as statesman. The lately enfran-
chised people of this country will not forget
SCHUYLER CoLFAx. His name, should 1t
come again before the country for his present
position, will kindle enthusiasm in every
black mans heart, and be tower of strength
with all who want to see our country put In
harmony with the eternal principles set forth
in the Declaration of American Independ-
ence. A man less imbued with those great
principles might have found ready and
plausible excuse for a different vote from his,
on the Supplementary Civil Rights Bill. He
might have said, "leave it to time" Let
it come up as a separate measure" "Let it
stand upon its own legs" opposed to mix
inc incongIuities." "There are enough to
pass the one, not enough votes to pass the
other.' But he fishcd up no such paltry ex-
cuses, but voted like true man as he is, to
couple equal rights to all with the bill for
amnesty to all, and to that vote more than to
any other, we owe our chance of getting the
Supplementary Civil Rights Bill made part
of the law of the land,
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precious rights, without which liberty Is
an empty name. While the colored traveller
can be insulted and degraded on railroads and
steamboats,, while his children can be ferreted
out of our common schools, while colored
gentlemen are denied decent and equal ac-
commodations at our hotels, and may be in
suited and driven away with impunity, the
colored mans liberty is mockery. He is
worse off than an alien in the land Of his
birth. Mr.. SUMNER is right in coupling the
two measures. The fact that the country is
opposed to his Supplementary Civil Rights
Bill, proves that the country is not quite
ready for Universal Amnesty. Let the two
measures be united and fall or flourish to-
gether. When the people are ready for equal
rights to all men, then it may be ready to re-
store the late slaveholding rebels, the deadly
enemies of equal rights, to their old status
as American citizens. Tobring back TooMBs,
STEPHENS, and JEFFERSON DAVIS to the
Halls of Congress, and restore all the leaders
of those who with broad blades and bloody
hands sought to destroy the nation, while the
Senate refuses equal rights to the ever loyal
colored citizen would be scandalous preju-
dice and Partially before all the world.
Men abuse Mr.. SUMNER for his infexible
persistency in attaching and holding these
two measures together, but the more the SUBJ
ject is discussed, and the motives for desiring
their separation are understood, the palmer
will it be seen that Mr.. SUMNER is not only
right as parliamentarian, but right as a
statesman. Readiness for his Supplementary
Civil Rights Bill is a good test of the fitness
of the rebel leaders, for the measure Of Uni
versal Amnesty, and until such readiness
shall be manifest, we hope Mr.. SUMNER will
continue to press his amendment. This coun-
try is too large, this nation is too great. this
people embrace too many different varieties
Of race, color, and religion to have peas:
upon any other principle than ths S. e miver-
sal liberty and equalitY.p-~
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Grant and Equal Rights.

We clip the following comment on an ex-
tract from an editorial of the New Orleans
Picayune, from the Washington Sunday Her.
aid:
"The New Orleans Picayme was once a
representative Southern journal. 1t was
never ultra, but it fairly expressed the more
conservative sentiment OF the South. 1t has
sadly changed of late. 1t is not only weak
and vascillatng, but treacherous toward those
from whom it has long derived its support.
Not long since we took pains to deny that
the Picayune had gone over to Grant. We
are sorry now that we did so. 1t is evidently
Grant organ in disguise, and is therefore the
more insidious an enemy of those who are
striving to restore the Government to its for
mer basis and put stop to the existing cor
ruptions and Entertainments. We have
abundant proof of this in the Picay,ne's ed-
| torial on the Cincinnati nominations, Of which
we quote the concluding portions:
If the Democratic Bourbons will not, imi-
tating the wise men of Gotham, take to boat
and thrust in their old splintered oar, we can
| all say that we are Republicans, that we are
for the Union as it was reinaugurated under
the Appomattox apple-tree, that we are for
| the suppression Of caste and race in politics,
| in civil attributes, in common carrying ac-
| commOdations-in one word, that we are for
| all rl0lCS IOr ALE Ii CfllS hcpuDllCdn unlVer-
salism offers hopeful departure from the
organized misery of the political situation,
then the Democratic party will render the
most patriotic service of which it is capable
by lying down and keeping quiet in the coffin
which has been waiting and yearning for it
these many, many days.
An open declaration for Grant is next in
order from the Picayune."
1t will be seen by the above comment OF
the Sunday Herald that to favor all rights for
all, to advocate the suppression of caste and
race in politics, in civil attributes, in common
carrying accommodations must for the sake Of
consistency be followed by declaration for
GRANT. The Sunday Herald advocates the
acceptance of the nomination of HORACE
GREELEY for President by the Democracy as
opposed to GRANT. Is it because Liberal
Republicanism means the exact opposite Of
the principles laid down by the Picaynae and
that HORACE GREELEY is the great leader in
that opposition?
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Unite, But Do Not Mingle.

Frederick Douglass says: Educate the
poor white children and the cOlored children
together; let them grow up to know that
color makes no difference as to the rights OF
a man; that both the black man and the
white man are at home that the country is
as much the country of one as of the other,
and that both together must make it a val
liable country"
We say "educate" likewise. But we do
not believe in mingling the black and white
children in one school. We do not think the
mingling is good for either race. God in
tended that the negro should be with the
negro in society, as He intended the white
should be with the white. We would extend
the same broad privileges of education and
and politics to the black and white, but for
the sake of each and of both, let the races
remain distinct and independent, except as
members of the human family. All men are
brothers, and God is the Father; but the
races of men are distinct, and were made to
live and to be happy separately. We know
that this looks like prescription in some cases
but it is not prescription to provide the same
means of happiness for each race alike. We
would give the negro every privilege and
every power that the white possesses, but we
believe it to be ordained by God that such
privileges and powers should be enjoyed dis
tinctively by each, and not in COMMONLY.
Y. Republican.
We do favor the mingling" of white and
black children in common schools as afford
ing the best means for a common education.
The mingling" of colored and white, to
which the Republican objects, has been fact
for generations in this country. But it has
been an indecent and an outrageous ming
ling. We favor mingling in the interest OF
decency, and not mingling brought about
by crime. Abundant evidence exists in our
midst of the desire on the part ofthe whites
to mingle with the blacks. Colored people
of mixed blood in this community nearly, il
not fully, equal those of unmixed blood, the
result of the baseness of that race that be-
lieves, on paper, that the negro was intended
to be separate and distinct from white peo-
pie, and not to enjoy manhood rights in
common,
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THE speeches made in the Congregat

THE speeches made in the Congregational
Church on the occasion of the recent Civil
Rights meeting, if not brilliant, were at least
sensible. Nobody, we believe, was so con-
fused in ideas, or so perverse in purpose, as
to avail himself of the opportunity to con-
found the Civil Rights Bill with the incom-
prehensible and indefinable thing or nothing
called Social Equality, a thing Or nothing so
impalpable that no government has yet at
tempted to legislate for or against it, or has
given itself any concern about it. Whether
this man is the social equal of that other man
may be safely left to the two to settle be-
tween themselves. Congress ought not to
be called upon to help pro or coa-and so far
as that meeting was concerned, it was not.
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Will 1t split the Dem ocratic Party

1t would be curious example OF poetic
justice if the Cincinnati wedge cunningly de-
vised by Democratic leaders to split the Re-
publican party, should prove even more
effective in splitting the Democratic party,
leaving it more TIN thu eyer as@oralizef nhiss
nu9 ssy 5itice-seekers more hopelessly desti-
tute than ever. There are signs in many
directions that they have already gone too
far in this business and raised a spirit which
they cannot control. Their "any man to
beat GRANT" has been taken in dead earn
est by the more honest men of their party,
and now that they have got their "any man"
in the person of Mr.. GREELEY, some of them
too dull to understand the deep game Of their
leaders are openly declaring themselves for
GREELEY. Especially is this the case in the
South. The stampede in that quarter has
alarmed the leaders of the Democracy, and
they are now running among the scampering
rank and file almost out of breath, screaming,
=" No, no! we did not mean that. When we
said anybody to beat GRANT, we only meant
anybody to split the Republican party
Hasten back good fellows! Hasten back to
the Democratic ranks and wait for orders
from the Democratic Convention. This mis-
understanding of yours has really caused us
serious alarm and distress. Now this is pre-
cisely why we hear no more of our "passiv-
ism," no more of ''any man to beat GRANT,''
no more the policy Of making no Democratic
nominations. Messrs. GREELEY and BROWN
have been cunningly employed to curse the
Republican party, forgetful of the old adage
"that curses like chickens, come home tC
rnoaf
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The Liberal Party.

The developments ofthe past week have dis
closed the fact that even this new combination
does not work without considerable friction.
Though everybody shouted at Cincinnati, it
turns out that everybody was not pleased
with what they shouted over, and that even
now there is much dissatisfaction. The
Revenue Refomers are not chow could they
be p pleased because they are called upon to
support for President man who has written
more columns than would reach from the
White House to Cincinnati in favor of I'M
qualified protection. They do not feel that
they have had fair play. CHARLES FRANCIS
ADAMS, the political nondescript who once
proposed to make slavery perpetual in the
United States by an alteration of the United
States Constitution for that purpose, after
having played the part of an Abolitionist in
Massachusetts,, they insist was by some foul
political jugglery, beyond even the control Of
the President of the Convention thrust aside,
and HORACE GREELEY put in his place. 1t
does not become us to take part in the quar-.
rels of this young family, but we may say to
all concerned, that the doors of their old
houses are still open to them, and that the
fatted calf will be killed in celebration Of
their return. They separated from us on nc
principle, but went off in fit of anger, which
is hardly the stuff to build a party on. They
did not like General GRANT, and because
they were displeased with the President they
resolved to break up the Republican party Of
which they were members and had an equal
voice with all other members to control its
action. 1t was spiteful, disorganizing
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Mercy Versus Justice.

CHARLES SUMNER has again indicated
his title to the gratitude of the friends of inn
partial freedom, and offended so-called "Dem-
ocrats" and Liberals" by defeating the
Universal Amnesty Bill. Just when the Sem
ate is warm and overlooking with love and
forgiveness towards defeated rebels. and is
making haste to obliterate the last mark of
the nations adherence of treason, this grave
Senator, turns all the sweetness Of the Sem
ate into bitterness and its love into hate, by
telling its members to be just before they are
generous. At any rate he would not have
mercy precede justice. First "pure then
peaceable" is the true order. The Amnesty
Bill is defeated because those who wished to
have it passed refused to have it if it shall be
coupled with the Supplementary Civil Rights
Bill. They will not have mercy to the rebels,
if mercy to the rebels is to be coupled with
justice to the negroes. In their sight the
negro citizen is more hateful than the rebel
is lovely. They would gladly serve the
latter, but cannot do so, if they must at the
same time serve the former. 1t is notable
fact, too, that they take this ground because
they think that the rebels will prefer to do
without our mercy, if mercy to them is to be
accompanied with justice to the negro, In
this view of the case, the reader will see more
clearly the necessity for this Supplementary
Civil Rights Bill. 1t is sometimes said that
colored men now have all their civil rights.
that they are not denied anything which they
really want. If that statement is true, why
then have we this fierce and determined dp.
position to this Supplementary Civil Rights
BiIi? Ifit gives nothing that anybody wants,
and takes nothing which is at present with
held, what is the objection to it? The worst
that could be said againstit is, that it would
needlessly add single page to our national
statute book, which certainly would not be q
very great evil. But nobody believes this
trash. The supplementary Civil Rights Bill
comes to correct real abuses, and to secure
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Will He Hold Them 10 tho Bar.
gain?

The Democratic leaders are furious at the
idea that Mr.. GREELEY means to hold them
to their implied bargain. He has no taste
for being used to serve Democratic lust for
Office, and then to be scandalously abandoned
by them. He means, if we now understand
him, that their part Of the bargain shall be
faithfully performed, and that in case they
fail, he will be released from all obligations
in the premises. In other words, Mr.. GREE
LEY was induced to abandon his old party
associations and go to Cincinnati upon the
implied pledge and the belief that if nomi-
mated the Democracy would support him.
He had a right to believe that they were in
earnest and would honestly carry out the
programme, but he now sees how vain are
the promises of politicians. He is scarcely
nominated when the Democracy, grinning sat-
isfaction in each others eyes, exclaim now
is our time. Let us hold a Democratic Ma
tional Convention and nominate our ticket,
and, through division we have made in the
The game is very pretty, and might work
we'll but for GREELEY himself. If there is
honor among thieves, he insists that there
shall be honor among politicians, and he
strongly intimates that if he is betrayed and
deserted by the Democrats now, in this the
supreme moment of his political existence,
that he will find his way back to his old
friends and associates. The cards are in his
own hands, and it may turn out that the
Democracy has walked up the wrong GUS
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PRESIDENT Grant wrote that he sympa-
thizes most cordially in any effort to secure
for all our people, of whatever race, nativity,
or color the exercise of those rights to which
every citizen should be entitled? Why then
does he deny the granting of amnesty to the
prescribed people of the South ?"-Stnday
Herald.
The delay of amnesty is no fault of General
GRANTS. 1t is caused by the enemies to
the principle that would secure to all those
rights to which every citizen should be en-
titled.