The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-05-21
What MIR. summer Thinks.


Mr.. Sumner has never identified him
selflclesfly with the Liberal Republi-
cans, though he hos been as instru.
mental as any in exposing the corrup-
tions of Grants administration and
denouncing the Presidents nepotism
and unfitncss to fill creditably the high
position he occupies. He is known to
be the implacable foe of Grant, and as
the nomination of the latter at Philadel-
phia is foregone conclusion, il is very
evident that Mr.. Sumner will not throw
his influence against Greeley, at least.
He would be powerful ally of Mr..
Greeley. Tho colorcd people have such
q regard for and confidence in him, that
We feel convinced the Greeley and Brown
ticket would carry every Southern State,
if Mr.. Sumner would declare in its favor,
and make few speeches in South Caro-.
lima, Florida, Mississippi and Louisiana.
He is probably awaiting with little
hope the remote possibility Of Grants
being defeated, and some definite decla-
ration being made upon his civil rights
hobby by the Philadelphia Convention.
We think he will be disappointed upon
both points, and hope then to sec him
take the field emphatically for Greeley.
He would be Of moro service in the ap-
preaching campaign than any ten Of the
Republicans who have fingered to sup.
port Grants tottering fortunes. Since
the Cincinnati Convention. he has OBJ
served the most guarded silence rs to
his future course, but he has lately ex-
pressed his opinion upon a portion Of
the Liberal platform. and upon the rela-
tive worth and prospects of Greeley and
Grant, in way that shows oil his pre-
ferences to be in favor of the former. A
correspondent Of the New York Herald
reports him as speaking in conversation
as follows:
''The tariff plank at Cincinnati was
the fairest and frankest have ever met
with in my experience of political con-
ventions. Heretofore, such terms have
been used as judicious tariff, tax
affording incidental protection, &c.,
whereby politicians could demagogue
one way in Pennsylvania and another
wsy in Virginia. The Liberal Republi-
cans at Cincinnati made q compromise,
liberal and honest, confessing that they
could not deal in mass convention with
the question, and remanding it to the
people. The issue, therefore, lost none
of its Importance, and the Convention
none Of its liberal, fraternal and national
character. felt that onr politics had
become more manly and less prcvaricat-
ing when read that plank"
The question was then asked, "Mr
Sumner, will you appear in this cam
paign rs partisan of either Grant or
Greeley?"
Mr.. Sumner said: I have been per-
fectly neutral. I cannot support Grant
and keep my self-respect, or feel that
am giving my friends sound advice. 1
hope that the contest will be made q
personal one between the fitness, the
qualifications, the record and the law
fulness of the men. If it grow to be
purely political, many persons will draw
the party line. It is, to my mind, Just
now, contest be.weon tho big letter G.
and the little g. Grant is the little g.
Horace Greeley has been an unselfish,
charitable, liberal, philanthropio man.
He has ripened into one period. All
parts Of the country appreciate him, and
his name is the symbol Of good will and
lasting peace. Ibelieve that if the issue
be made personal and put on the ground
of character, Grant will be hissed out Of
the Geld. The Democratic party is re-
gaining the confidence of timid mon in
the North by its good behavior. The
South has gone far to satisfy apprehen-
sions in the North by its magnanimity
toward Greeley. Nobody could ever
charge Mr.. Greeley with nepotism. the
sale of his influence, or any mercenary
selfshness. think the big G will crush
out the little 6.
Hon. A. P. ALDRIcH FOR GREELEY.
Judge A. P. Aldrich, of South Carolina.
in letter addressed to J. p. O. White.
head. Esq, now of Missouri, says:
HI cannot nnsWar for tha Dem ocrotic