Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-07-19
POLITICAL NOTES.

One hundred colored men have united in a
letter to Mr.. Sumner, praying his advice in
the present political situation.
Saunders, the colored elector who resigned
his position on the Grant Ticket in Maryland,
writes from North Carolina that he fluids many
of the colored people of that State disposed to
vote for Greeley.
An address, signed by a number of the most
prominent Republicans of every county in the
State, has been issued to the Liberal Repub-
licans of Nebraska, calling upon them to come
forward without regard to former party asso-
Citations in the cause of reform.
Colored men are daily volunteering their
services to the Liberal Republican Club in
Baltimore city to take part in the canvass in
North Carolina or elsewhere if required. Yet,
a few days since, a statement appeared in
"Grant's Own" that not single colored man
would vote for Greeley.
Says the Baltimore Sun: General Gileon
J. Pillow, exConfederate, is in town, and
supports Grant for reelection. He has claim
before one of the Departments" The expla-
nation is perfectly satisfactory. Phil Clayton,
of Georgia, supports Grant likewise, and wants
post office.
Senator Stockton on his return from North
Carolina, reports the meeting at Weldon un-
precedently large and very enthusiastic. 1t
is his i'm preston, derived from conference with
gentlemen from all parts of the State, that
North Carolina will go against the Admins
tration candidates by handsome majority,
which will insure the State for Greeley in
November beyond peradventure.
Another recruit, colored man, writing to
the Savannah Republican, from Bloomfield,
KY, says 81 write to say that am Greeley
man from the gratitude of my heart for his
life of labor spent in behalf of my race. Send
me some campaign documents, and I shall
work for Greeley and Brown-if have to
beg my bread and walk from town to town
to speak"
General Cassius M. Clay puts the case
strongly and pungently when he says in his
letter to the people: ''To-day we live under
despotism impeled by the lowest instincts,
tastes, and self-indulgence, which, unlike Eu-
ropean aristocracies, shares nothing with the
people, but absorbs all their substance for
camp followers, who are equally corrupt and
vicious" Such is the deliberate opinion OF
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publican.
The Rev Sella Martin has written a letter
to the New York Tribune, in which he sue
cincty describes the situation of political
affairs in Louisiana, and thus concludes: 1.-THE
other thing l wanted to say was that the re-
volt from Grantism is made by the most in
teligent portion of the colored people here
During General Grants term, he has held
sway over the minds and hearts of the color
ed people of this State simply as the head Of
the Republican party. They questioned nei-
ther his past political record nor his present
acts. He was the best leader they had, and
they sought for no other. But since Mr.. Gree.
ley's nomination, the more intelligent of them
argue somewhat in this vein Mr.. Greeley is
the apostle of the Abolition press Genera
Grant is simply the official leader Of the party
that Mr.. Greeley founded. Mr. Greeley ha:
never taken back anything he said in favor o.
the negro; General Grant has never recalled
an appointment unfavorable to the negro
Mr.. Greeley says what he thinks; Genera
Grant keeps what he thinks to himself"