Daily national Republican. (Washington City [D.C.]) 1870-1872, 1872-06-25
THE REPUBLICAN PARRY AND THE COL
nnEn pEnpLE.

party, ls Just now giving great DISQUALIFICATION
to the Liberal Republican leaders, and caus-
ing the Greeley organs the most dire distress.
When the editor Of the Tribune was nornI
mated at Cincinnati, when Mr.. sumner an
nouuced himself against Gen. Grant when
the Tribune went over to the Democratic
party, we were told that the colorcd vote was
split in twalu-that hundreds OF thou lands
would follow the standard Of the seceders
and lead them away from the Republican
told. All these calculations have been wofully
disappointed, and we have yet W learn the
name OF the nrst prominsut colored man
who Ia In favor Of the coalition with rebels
and Democrats that Is held out 10 him, or Of
the hrst Southern State where the colorcd
people show the slghtoat disposition % take
new departure.
This state Of facts V highly creditable to
the colored race, II the strongest evidence
that cap be possibly glveu OF nAt which mo-
body now denies their ability TO govern them
selves. II showa that they cannot be led away
by thls iot that politician, or bent to hls pur-
pdses. They win follow no man and no party
except hal man and party be right II any
Que could have led them away from their al
legiance to Republlcanlsm that man Is Mr..
sumner. lie is honored and reyered 10 the
hut Of every colorcd man from Virginia 10
Florida; his great services In the cause Of
freedom and emanclpatiOn are fully apprc'
ciAted, but In all thai county there Is not q
black man who docs not now feel that In
some way Mr.. sumner Is wrong, and that 10
follow where he points would lead only into
danger and disaster.
I Why should the colorcd people leave the
Republican partyp The gentlemen who are
40 anxious 10 wheel them into line behind
Mr.. Greeley and the Baltimore convention
have as vet failed 10 give us q substantial
reason why they should do so. Mr.. snmner
alone has attempted 10 do 80, but even he has
lguobly failed. He says that Grant Is not a
Republican, aud that some years ago he voted
for james Buchanan. The colored people
know that for ten years General Grant has
been the best Republican In the country; that
10 the dark days Of the rebellion freedom
came 10 them wherever his victorious armies
appeared. They know that at the time Cen
eral Grant was heWlng away the cornerstone
Of the peculiar Institution, Mr.. Greeley was
adyIslnr peace upon any terms; that II his
counsel had been taken the armies Of the
republlc would have been ordered TO their
forts and arscuaI4, or IN the far Indian from
tier, and Ave hundred thousand planters
would have been empowered forever 10 hold
and to have Ave millions OF people In slavery.
While Greeley was pleading for an impos-
aihia naaca xvaa drawing the line that
should forever separate the colored man
from his friends In the North, Grant was
maturing the plans aud campaigns that, when
the smoke Of battle had cleared away, gave
the colOred race country, aud that made
for them the Declaration Of Independence
something more than a mere glttering gen
erality. Greeley would have remanded them
back to the gloom OF slavery Grant led them
Into the full light OF freedom.
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