The weekly Louisianian., 1872-07-20
REPUDlATING GIANT.

not Support Grant-Inconsistencies
of the Philadelphia Playorm,-Toe
many Indefinite Promises g,
all Parties can support the Cinca's-
natl Ticket and Nominees.
[From the New York Tribune.]
BALTIMORE, July 8.-A bombshel]
was thrown into the administration
camp in Baltimore this afternoon
by the publication of the following
letter from the colored candidate
on the Grant electoral ticket OF
this State, from the fourth congress
sional district. It is reported that
Mr.. Saunders will carry with him to
the Liberal Republican party a great
number of colored votes:
BALTIMORE, July s, 1872.
To Hon. Henry Stockbridge, Chairman
Baltimore City Delegation to the late
Republican Convention:
Sn-Please accept for yourself
and colleagues from the fourth con-
gressional district to the late con-
vention of April "a, 1872, my CRATE
full thanks for the CONSPICUOUS favor
conferred by placing my name on
the Grant ELECTORAL ticket, and the
assurance Of my kindly appreciation
of this and other marks of confidence
during my participation in the poll
tics of my native State. A profound
sense of duty to my race and the
demands of an unsel6sh patriotism
superior to mere partisan require
ments compel me decline the honor
and sever my connection with the
Grant wing Of the Republican
party.
I entertain the hope that at no
distant day colored men, as Ameri-
can citizens, will rise superior to
the apparent selfishness of their
past political action, which las too
often been characterized by adhe-
sion to men instead OF devotion to
principles, and that they will fully
Comprehend the sacredness of the
ballot and the higher duty of citizen
ship. It is but natural that in the
past colored voters should have been
consolidated within the ranks of
that party through whose instru-
mentality their rights were in part
secured, particularly when the party
was itself q unit and the rights OF
the colored citizen made a political
issue; but now, when some of the
best men and brightest spirits #
that party decline to act with it, and
join with other citizens in the for
nation of a newer and better party
with more advanced and more prac-
tical ideas, within whose ranks the
rights Of all men are assured, it is
an open question whether the Lib
eral Republican party is not after
all the true Republican party Of the
country. Now that all men of what
ever creed or political opinion &C
cept the situation, recognize the
rights of all men, and guarantee
their maintenance, Il is but fair to
suppose that the time is really come
to permit the "dead past to bury its
dead" and for all voters to come up
to that comprehensive platform
which, while recognizing the equity
of equal rights, gives promise Of
peace and prosperity to
the whole country. In the coming
presidential campaign it is of the
last importance that colored men
cast off the fetters Of political vas
salage, ignore the tyranny Of a fal: Q
and vicious party discipline, and,
like all other men, exercise their po-
litical franchise according to the
dictates of an enlightened and un-
trammeled Judgment
Even were it possible for me to
remain on your ticket, I could not
approve and .abet the, bitter and
continued factional warfare for
which the great party in Maryland
is remarkable, and which is a domi-
nant characteristic Of that party in
every State in the Union. Neither
would I on any consideration lend
myself to the basely ungrateful task
OF yilifying and bounding lifelong
friends of human liberty and o1
equal rights, who, by their laboca
and sacrifices through q period ot
more than a quarter of a century,
have made it possible for men Of
my race to enjoy the privileges d
American citizenship.
I have read carefully that elabor.
ate compilation of indefinite pro.
misses of the Philadelphia platform
and beg to suggest that if after more
than eleven years Of absolute con.
troll Of the government, it is deemed
wise to be 70 prolific in platform
declafation, it j. just possible thal
four years' longer lease of power
will be inadequate to the full per
formance Of the stupendous tasl
marked out for The party at Phil