New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-11-21
Letter from NIlssIssippl.
VIcKsBURG. MISS, Nov. IL, 1

from thirty-fve to thirty-eight thousand ma
jorty! And the glorious news we are re.
ceiving daily from our sister States is enough
to make US double our allegiance, were it
possible, to our glorious Government. The
achievements Of our late war are sustained
the contemplate and cowardly calumnies
heaped up by the fusionists against one oil
the most quiet and unassuming chieftains
that was ever placed at the head of a nation,
arc rebuked; and the principles of the Re-
publican party are ingratiated in the hearts
ofthe American people! What tremendous
majority the old Keystone State gave! What
mighty volume the old Bay State rolled up,
Notwithstanding the wandering of her gifted
Senator. And even little Delaware, the
Whipping-post State! Yes, even Delaware
has redeemed herself! Now let her DIG up
her whipping post, and plant liberty-pole,
and we will place her by the side of little
Rhody! Where is the end of our victory
We look at the rock-bound shores of the At
lantic, and behold we see mighty volume of
ballots marked "Grant and Wilson," We
turn our eyes to the placid shores of the Pa
cific, and there we sec the golden volume of
"Grant and Wilson" ballots. We come to
the genial shores of the Gulf, and here, too,
we see thousands of unfettered black hands
piling up mountain-high little white ballots
marked Grant and Wilson," We 90 to the
cold shivering waters of the lakes, and there
we see the brave-hearted ycomanry deposit
ing their Grant and Wilson" ballots. And
We look into the glorious center of our coun-
try, and there we see a snow-capped noun
tain of ballots for Grant and Wilson !" 1t
is all "Grant and Wilson" from one end of
the country to the other. Their election is
without parallel; and do not know of two
men who would take their success with more
becoming modesty than they will. But poor
Horace Greeley! 1 shall say nothing against
the good old man, but sympathize with him
In his mournful hours. The verdict against
him Is not because the American people be-
lieve him to be liar and scoundrel, but be-
cause thoy believe him to be entirely unfit for
the position Of Chief Magistrate of this great
nation. That had he been elected he would
be surrounded by the enemies of our country,
the affairs of the nation disturbed, and gen
eral disaster would follow. 1 believe he will
yet return to his old fold and that he will re-
iterate his sentiment" May it be written
upon my tomb that while lived was not
Of the Democratic party, and died in nothing
its debtor" (The above is quoted from
memory
A good many of the odd Bourbons are
already heaping curses upon poor Horace's
head. They say he has always been opposed
to the Democratic party, and would do any
thing TO wipe it out of existence, but he has
done more to kill the party since he has been
its pretended friend than he could possibly
have done while he was its avowed enemy.
And, it is q frequent expression of thieves,
that perhaps the whole thing was radical
job put up by designing men to shatter the
Democratic party into fragments Well, if
1t was, it has been pretty effectually carried
out. The Democratic party is now a total
eclipse, and the Republican party can have
absolute control of the nation SO long as it
remains the party of advanced ideas, uni
versal liberty, and perfect equality before the
law for all the inhabitants of the country.
And now, since q vast majority of the
American people have sustained the past
acts Of our party, and have triumphantly
endorsed its platform made at Philadelphia,
we sincerely hope that at the next sitting Of
Congress our Republican members will see
to it that the
CIVIL RIGHTS
bill is passed. We are suffering too>much
for the want of this bill. We canvassed the
river counties in company with the Governor,
and We were subject to all manner of incl
Whites and contemplate treatment while
travelling on the steamboats,. After leaving
those counties we went to Memphis to take
the cars for the central portion of the State.
We took the Mississippi and Tennessee road
to Grenada, where we had to wait four hours
for connection. The night was cold, dark,
and rainy; and by the side of the road was
a fine, large hotel, beautifully lighted up, and
in which were blazing fires. The passengers
room was closed up and so was the freight
room; all the white passengers went into
the comfortable hotel, partook of bounti-
ful supper, and passed away the time pleas
antly while waiting for the train. But my
companion and had to tread the cold, damp
platform by the side of the track for foul
long hours in cold, drilling rain, simply
because we had tincture of African blood
In our veins. Great God! said 1, suppose
our wives and little ones were with us How
they would suffer! We asked for a cup o
coffee in the hotel, but it was refused us
And all this in the midst of a heated can
vass, when Democratic orators were asking
colored men to vote for Horace Greeley
because they say he has been our friend fo
the past thirty-five years. We can expec
no favors from the Democratic party, and w
ask none from them but we do hope ou
Republican friends will see to it (now tina
their acts have been SO heartily endorsed
that Grants re-inauguration does not tax,
place with a solitary right of the negro with
held from him. The people are ready for it
and we hope Congress will not be found derc
lict in its duty CIyIS