New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-08-17
POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE.
WENDELL PHILLIPS ON GRANT.
WHY HE SHOULD DE sUPP0RrED-CoNChhNiNu
GREELEY AND SUMNER.

GREELEY AND SUMNER.
Wendell Phillips has written long letter
certain colored citizens OF Boston under date OF Aug
8, in which he gives his reasons for supporting "en'
Grant and opposing Mr.. Greeley IT IS 700 long 10 ro-
produce entire but tho following extracts give an adc
Quate idea Of the whole;
OF course the first thought that TO you and me
gst R9T cn set % Sho Sl Sumner
vote for Horace Greeley and believes that your rights
win be safe only IN t1 ns MI samnST can
fo aIS his easureless services to the anti
slavery e re1S his h"d words read them over
Swallowed by the memory OF his early and entire ue
zeal which has never fagged-that watchfuness which
has seldom been deceved-Of that devotion which has
so rarely shrunk from any sacrce-wheh no opposition
conid tire and no danger appal From such coun-
selor venture TO differ with great reluctance, ana 0ny
my dissent II were that right, and that
ne was wrOng-that the occasion was very Important
and bis mistake one which leads TO iatairesul'S
You remember that in 1868 emphatcally denied Gen
Grants fitness the Presidency. Derded by the Re
publican press, / went from cry TO Guy protestinS
against his election In private, with MT. sumner anu
mttiSs sEe5 man into such an Office At that time
they only his great merits, ana supported mn
heartily. The defects Of his Administration are no sur
prise to me may say, without boasng that prophe-
sled those defects do not wish to hide them to-day
intoerabe insOence of the Admins traun Ia the SantO
Domingo matter. think the frequent putting OF rela-
of Webster is warning enough against any man In public
life yenturipg accept gifts from living men. These
and other defects are no surprise to me- Tue eminent
merits OF Gen. Grants administration are CONFESS
surprise to me L., ,.u..uoo
by the lips OF Jefferson Dayls-that the cause was hO
lost and must be by getting possession OF the Coy
the Present plot That Mr Greeley it would
never prevent his aiding 1t. That Mr. summer does
not see it is to me matter OF profound astonlsn-
ment. At snch moment the regular Republican
party becomes again the accepted ana only lnsTu
"a Lincoln did in 1861 do not can for his defects
they ten times greater. Chatham and JuDius Ightfuly
forgot the nfamy OF Wilkes when he stood the rep
resentatiye and symbol Of the rights of British subject
Even If accepted Mr.. Summers portrait Of President
whole truth should still vote for him against rebel
lion at the ba0tbox, TO which dsioyay gives all inc
strength, and childish credullty all the character
To put the slightest iath IN the QIOleslaohS OF copper
heads and SecessiOniss made only TO get Once Us building
on quicksand. With the exception OF Mr.. SUMNER
no leading Liberal Republican does really put any aith
in those prOesatOns. Theirs is not case or delusOn
They are hypOcrites not dupes. They know well the
MOT and Tor the sake Of Office willing
10 help it and risk the consequences Ihey
know that Mr. GTeeey's election means the negro
surrender TO the hate OF the Southern states v ta
no interference from the nation IN s behalf; that IL
means the constitutional amendments centralized D.
Copperhead Congress, our debt anpeed WITH ana our
bonds falling % per cent Ia every market Inc Demo
cratic mi Onaire who is wiling To risk THIS Las already
"hedgod." He holds millions Of Confederate BOMBS ana
is plotting 10 make ON them more tn enough 10 pay
four times Or all he loses On inc Ltoi tecuites
and then safely laugh al the small NndHoiuerS no mas
duped
Ii Gen. Grant is set aside, who 3 fered MS IN DIS
plaCel Horace Gicolcy. need not tel you, my friends
what Horace Greeley We abontDIists know BIN
only too well In the weary years OF our struggle He
had enough OF clear moral vision " the justice OF our
But he had courage enWgh 10 confess his
faith. II events had given him tho courage, no
would have had principle enough 10 risk
for an idea. trimmer by uture and pur-
pose, he has abused even an american pol
But for lack OF ability be would have been the
Chief tmeseryer OF his age never Enew TIL now any
OF his eulOglss hreGless and uIdlscflmnatlng ~
even 10 claim that he sincere man A. FOR his
hOncsy-fOr 20 years has been byEOrd with us that
room with him; but for any othI honesty no one
was wtiess enough to connect Tie idea with his
name
Mr.. Sumner trusts him "a lifetime Abolitionist"
THIS is certainly news 10 you and me-
We put with the scOrn IL deserves the insult I'M
piled IN preaching to forgiveness and Cancellation
AndersonNile and Libby Prison still living horrors
Beside the thousands who were starved there hundreds
sui drag Oat weary lives III our steets poisoned ali
through by hat dread cruelty. The graves OF seven
white native Georgian 10y al men, ruthessy shot down
in the streets hardly yet covered The rstDOrn or
a hundred thousand households stlfresby mourned.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS to the unparalleled mercy, the unut-
terabe generosity Of the DatiOnnnetnlne out ofevery
hundred Confederate soldiers enjoy today al the rights
they had before the dare not axthe epthet THINK
fitting 10 that mood Of mind which DEEMS 1T necessary
aud becoming preach to such community the duty
OF forgiyenessl / wish my voice could be heard by
every cOlOred down TO the Gull; lot because lney
need my advice No. they understand and see the
danger. But should like TO rally tnm to help US
second time to the nation. shOd say To them
Vote, every OF you, for Grant, AZ you value prop
erty life, wife, or child. II Greeley iseeced arm, CON
centrate, conceal your prODery-Dut organize fOT ue
feuse You will need 1t soon and sadly"