New-York tribune., 1872-07-31
prprnIATLNG GRANT.
THE REV. sELLA MARTIN 10 FREDERICK DsDl-
LAss-AN ABLE REVIEW or GRANTS ADMIN

THE REV. sEIJA MARTIN TO FREDERICK D.lL-
LAss-AN ABLE REVIEW OF GRANTS ADMIN
IsTRATION BY COLORED CLERGYMAN.
The Hon. FREDERICK DOUGLAfs
DEAR SIR For nearly % years have s.t n
your feet 10 learn the duties ofa black man toward IN.
race ! think YOU will bear Die witness hatI have "a
you the worship which ordinary mind owes 10 seasa.
and that In an public gatherings my enthusiasm has
been contagious hat three several occasions
have been assistant Of those who lftrd you tbo
highest h0n0rs the negro race had in it gfttho
! doncy Of three National Conventions n therc'oa
difcr from you now our past relations viii absolrs
from tho apparent sins of cgotsm and so'hshnsss !
mention sehshnoss, because End the following para
graph m The Rep National Era. In speaking OF Mr.
Greeley. you say:
"Ho has united his fortune with party. based mon
personal grievances and not upon broad RrOunds of
national good. Personal Disappointment personal envy.
personal resentments, personal ambitions. have untsd
" personal opposition 70 Grant and IN peIsons avoi oi
Horace Greeley. Now are utterly opposed to thus
sort Of personal politics. man who abandons party
because his party has not the same sense Of MS petsvs
merits that he has himset ana who IONS an1unI.
hoping for better luck with the new than with tfe
old, may be- courageous rs well cunning, Dnt
IL Is impossible 10 commend such a one for poliu.
What i GOOD for him must be good 10 the country and
makes greater than the nation, aud ahrms that
sbPd co1niTy last he may not always do this
sciously but whether Intentionally or not the thhg
foundation its startngpOint aud mainspring IN thp
sort OF personal politics. They accuse Cen, Hihns Z"
fndeDendent today Of the Executive under any ?
mlnistrauon since Washington"
Now, Sir, think understand your personal feet.
and your political ethics and honor them whe
from your standpoint. long life Of usefulness
outgrowth Of a potency in your ripenei years -
an exalted outlook and serene spirit But We We
all born Fred. ouglasses, and those who may ye
you have got TO stand on their lot and master th
roundings az You mastered yours. before th,
attain 20 the dlsinterested plane upon which
powers and your experience have llfted you.
think you are mistaken IN estimating the Cine
Convention by your abominatioD OF personalities.
as strong in moral convictions. and as disinteres
SSourrseT were there. have not time,
journals grant space TO cay ell desire about r
sonal disappointmentso personal envy" "persob-
ambition" &C., but word in passing may be uscfuE Ia
reminding you that Grant and his friends have Sc, the
examples in christening the personalities you denOUnoe
When Gen Grant tried 10 have A. L. steV art
made Secretary Of the Treasury, and fssled,
he showed his personal disappointment by
Ignoring those who pointed the law fOrbddng It, h
showed his personal resentment toward Mr Sumner "
peciay BY recalling Nr. Motley from the Court OF
James. He exhibited his personal envy of Mr. SUNNI >
popularity as Chairman Of the Committee on For
Relations and had him removed by an unconstitua a
interference with coordinate branch OF the Coz u
ment though he knew he was degrading the best Fv
Secretary the nation had TO put in his place he
worst it was possible to get. His per p'nI
his personal ambition TO be renomiNated
gave the Cincinnati movement its strongest hold pos
the people When he insued and, through his min ?,
degraded Mr. Sumner, the hitops Of New-England be
gan TO grow gray with his political destiny; when MS
ambition led him into an unconstitutional interference
with santo Domingo the nation became alarmed st MS
usurpations and when he cut of the Official heads
but sycOphants and deceivers the people besaa 10
practice personalities he had taught them lhon
personalities returned to plague the inventor
Let me illustrate las to his ambition, When ic''
fer finds onehrd OF his church opposed 10 him he oant
to resign II he is right his church will bnd 1t out and
he can go back If be likes II he is wrong it is difficult
for him TO find it out under the daily reports and OIL
ciousness OF his heated parsans SO he is liko;y 20
plunge deeper wrong. government IS much moro
sacred than church. 1t conseryes the iHst.tu-
tons OF a country, the churches INCLUDED IT, tnero-
fore, the people saw one-third OF the Republican
party so far dissatisfied at Cincinnati to nominate
Republican ticket for the purpose OF putting another
man in the Presidents seat ought this third OF the
party to be credited with much unselhshness In try
ing to get one he credited with for trying
10 stay D especially IT, when you to canvass their
moral and mental makeup, you find as many original
Abotonsts and clear headed men at Cincinnati you
find advocating the denomination and reelection OF
Grant,
The nation knows how his brothorin-aw. under Pack
ards direction, mobbed the oOored people out Of the
Custom house at New-Orleans last August, nanked
with United States soldiers and bearded us with
United states bayonets. But 1t may not know that at
Baton Rouge, a few weeks ago-a place To which tho
Convention adjourned from ksw-Oreans because there
was garrison Of soldiers there COlOred de-
MED their seats in the Convention where they wers
known to be intelligent and independent. and other col
Ored men, the seTyie tools OF the Custom house, were
seated the places OF delegates from the country
parishes was OF these delegates. II was admit
ted that "A right seat. aud the President in
TO the stand to explain, when Packard sent e
President a simple-mnded young cOlored man. word.
and was dragged from the hall because persisted I'm
| asserting my rights In a Republican meeting. When
retains such he becomes responsible FOR their
| conduct.
Now Sir the colored people know Greeley origi-
nal aboitionst In the North they know him to be
stanch Republican and honest man. They know that
Gen. Grant knows nothing about abolition except as he
opposed IL In the Democratic ranks. He knows nothing
about great he would have been obstinate
in trying TO send Frederick Douglass minister 10
some great power he In trying 10 make A. T. stew
art secretary the Treasury. Neither is no Republi-
can. Bought a pig in the bag the Republicans have
had claims him aud lie has never paid
with the same selfish Indifference that he sacrificed Vice
President COfax To rebuke senator sumner ana TO gain
New England through Wilson, he will sacrifice the negro
through hs relatives and favOres here, and In other
Southern States was for Grant as long he would
allow 10 be, but now am for anybody that will not
lease offices OF the for the holders prey
upon the ignorance OF the coOred people, and deceive
them into blocking up the pathway OF their future
am. Sir. yours as ever, SELLA MARTIN.
Shrereport, La, July a. 1872.
GOITrH CAROITNA