Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1872-08-14
Nm. LIoyd Garrison 10 chas. summer.
REVIEW or THE SENATOR'S CAREER .--OBrrLEYisu
ExrOsED.-rnE BEARINGS On rnE rHfs-
ENT CAMPAIGN.


stances, oven if | deemed it erroneous, yet
all personal considerations must be subordin-
ated to the public welfare when seriously I'M
periled. You do not believe in silence in
crisis like the present nor do |. In your re-
cent letter to certain coorod citizens 40
Washington, you have spoken plainly, We
homcntly, and with rhetorical application
mot for the first time) in utter condemnation
Of the President Of the United States and
your advice to the whole body Of the colorcd
voters is, that they concentrate their ma'mgcs
upon rival candidate in the person Of
Horace Greeley
In reviewing your letter propose to speak
with equal plainnoss aud as earnestly to
counsel my colorcd couulrymeu not to follow
your lead in this matter, but as voters to
move unitedly for the reelection Of President
Grant, for every consideration pertaining to
their safety and happiness, to the cause Of
equal rights, aud TO the iuriherance Of ma
tiona peace and unity
In apoogzing for your delay 10 answering
the letter Of inquiry referred to- you state
that you wished to be aided by the Inc
formation which time might supply" The
kind Of information you desired or expected
TO gain in the brief space Of seventeen days
is left to conjecture but, ia view Of your
long avowod enlargement from the present
Chief Magistrate, it could not have been
needed to intensity your hostility to his adj
mnistration. Your reply is dated July 90
aud it appears 10 have been as carefully timcl
TO influence the election 10 North Carolina on
the lst Of August, before anything could Doc
done TO noutralize is effect, as was your
Grant indictment speech in the Senate 70 de-
tcrmiuo the action of the Philadelphia Com
veuti0n These condolences may have been
accidental. but you must not be surprised ~.
owing to the wel.known iuaammable state Of
your mind. a general belief obtains that you
have unfairly ayailcd yourcf0l opportunities
to work d fatal division 10 the Rcpublican
ranks
1t affords you much qualification to be sine
gled out by your colored iuterrogators as
" the spceia advocate Of their rights But
this is an assumption which Justice, as we'll as
becoming modesty should have led you to
discaim even if it was meant only to de-
scribe your Congressional career Similar
advocates have FROM time 20 tiMo stood
brayely up, both Ia the Senate aud 10 The
House Of Representative Wilson, Hale.
Wade, Chase, Gidlings Mann l0ycioy
Julian, Palrey, Thaddeus Stevens, Gcut
Smith and othcrs-who, il not as copiom and
ornate in speech as yourself have been as un-
diuching aud 10 their turn most bitterly de-
nouncod, TO say nothing OF The thousands OF
auti-slayory men and women whose lot it was
to pass through tho heat and burden Of the
conflict, pleading TO season and out of scas0n
nearly a score of years before your voice was
heard 10 support of their holy cause Your
advocacy Of it has been great anl medlor-
Gus: but to claim 10 as peculiar at ibis aio
day, as though you stood alone ana almost
sinele-handed is personal appropriation
very far removed from sclfahncraton. aul
quite unwarrantel
The Republican PARTY the product ofthiriy
years moral and religious agitation for the
overthrow Of slavery has crushed vast soa
toual rebellion for the erection Of au indie
pendent slave empire has cmancipatal four
millions Of bondmcn. and elevated them 90
the plane Of American citizenship hss re-
constructed the rcbeIious States on o come
mon constitutional basis, with universal lib
erty has brought order out Of chaos. general
tranquility out Of widespread disafec,ion
uuoxamrled prosperity out OF friehtful devas-
tation and has advanced the banner of tb.
erty and equality FAR beyond the expectation
or hope Of any man living ten years ago
The day has gone hy, therefore, FOR any one
to exhibit remarkable courage or conspicuity
/ ia the advocacy Of lny measure 10 behalf of
/ the rights and interests of our colored popu-
/ atiou, except, indeed, where the oldSlayo-
holding spirit still exercises mastery az The
South. Nor is il pertinent 90 the occasion 90
I talk Of their " infinite wrongs now that they
are emancipated aud onfrancti-ei supplied
with multitudnous schools and teachers. FREQ
( to make their owu contracts as iulgrluleut
( aborers protected as husbands aud wives,
/ bound together as parents and children. vot-
| ing and being voted for, pursuing succo .luily
all professional cmpl0ymeuls steadily gu1-
meuting their home comforts and laying up
wealth, occupying stations Of trust and cmoiu,
mcut aud having their representatives TO
every Southern Legislature and on the Goor
Of Congress. True, 10 certain localities they
are still subjected to many inligaities and
sometimes to horrible outrages bat these are
inflicted by that class Of incoUgIbIo miscJe-
ants at the South who are just now in happy
utilization with yourself TO place Horace
Greeley in the Presidential chair True.
/ there is still throughout The country strong
| prejudice against social equality irrespective
Of color but this is steadily yielding. aud 10
many cases has ceased to operate The special
time to express sympathy for the ininits
wrongs Of the colored race was when they
had few to interfere in their deivoraneo irom
the aucton-block and slaye-cohe, from tho
saye-driyers CORY LASH from calling yokos
and torturing thumb-serews from the iauc7
of pursuing bloOdbouuds from the clutches