The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-08-10
Sumner and Pimchback.

CHARLES SUMNER.
To Speaker Blaine.
Summer and PimChback.
We reproduce the subi0ined special
dispatch from the st. Louis Republican /:
WASHINGTON, July Ex-senator Sum-
ner's residence, always a place of popu-
lar resort, to-day has been thrOnged
ted HIM to learn of the truth of the state
ment that he was about publicly and
finally to declare himself in favor of
Greeley. There have been so many
stories to this effect lately, that popular
incredulity needed assurances from the
Senator's own lips that there was any
more foundation for this latter rumOr
than its scores of predecessors. To all
such visitors and inquiries to-day the
Massachusetts Senator had but one re-
ply to make. He said that he had new
er halted OF hesitated in his Sympathies
in the preSent campaign but only as to
the manner and prOpriety of giving
them expression. The letter which he
was about to make public was the re-
suit of a careful investigation into all
the issues entering into the present
campaign, and the sentiments there put
! LO1GH w Clio HtAt5 IIOI1CSua COuf lCG1OIIS OL
his own conscience.
PRESSURE UPONHIM.
In conversation with your c%orrespon-
dent, he said that no man could tell the
pressure brought to bear upon him from
all quarters since the Baltimore con-
ventiOn to influence his political action.
TN the first place, he said, all those mem
bers of the Grant administration with
whom he was still on the most friendly
terms, came to him with their ~speciOus
pleas and arguments, urging him, for
the sake OF consistency, to stand by the
nominee of the regular Republican par
ty, as if, observed the Senator, with a
smile, there could be any consistency
in my preferring to support a man who
had always been a Republican, like
Greeley, to one who had never voted
the Republican ticket, as Grant once
boosted. There would sweep down,
then, a delegation of his old political
friends, associates and neighbors from
Massachusetts, who, withhands appraised
would beseech him not to abandon the
old Republican organization in which
he had won so many trinmphs and
again, he would be pestered with ahorde
of sharp negro politicians and carpet
baggers, who would fight the war over
dSd14s anu NAcS4N93 tILC NNt3 lcSuCH H4IEII
the Baltimore convention decided were
buried forever. "There has been moth
ing like it, said the Senator, in my
experience before !; butt he continued,
" / have kept steadily in view the prin-
Ciples involved in the present struggle,
and have not allowed myself to be
swayed by other influences than my
clear convictions of duty to my country
and tomyself."
7"' OTHER ACCEssIoNs TO COME.
He said that he had been in correspon-
dence with the principle men in all parts
of the country, and felt assured that
many more Republicans who had been
yet still, of equal prominence with him
self, were in sympathy with the Gree
ley movement, and would take an early
occasion to declare themselves to that
effect, ~ s
.4east THE COLORED PEOPLE. 1852
AS to his colored wards, he says he
now feels perfect UnSolicitude ON that
score. He says he had assurances from
the best Democrats in the country, who
were in high reputation and honor, mer
whose words are as good as their bonds
men who went into secession .cOnscie1l,
tiOusly, and who fought calamity and
who resisted the new order of things sc
long as resistenceavailed anything; that
the negroes should fare quite as well al
the hands of the Democrats as the Re:
publieans, and that equal rights for al
either party, as 1t was In the respective
platforms. 4 JIG my letter, which is Civ,
en- to the public to-day does not sufi.
GENTLY define my position and show
where I stand,n continued the Senator
:" "a renly which / sent to Lieutenant
Governor Pinchback, of Louisiana
this morning, may he regarded in tht
light of a decided cOmmittal. Pinch.
back telegTaphed to know whether
was going to support Greeley. lrepliel
Instantly as follows /; My watGhwOr(
for the pending campaign is the unity
of the republic, with equal rights fol
all and reconciliation, as represented by
Horace Greeley
PINCHBACK FOR GREELEY.
1t is intimated that Pinchback, him
self, who has been claimed as a strong
Grant man, but desired this ayOwal il
order to place himself under the Gree
lev banner. Being a COl0red MAJ him
self, Pinchback's decision will have an
important influence ON the c0lOred ele
ment in this State.
The grand ratification meeting of thu
Kellogg concern, advertised to come of
near town last Saturday, was an abso'
lutte farce and failure, About seventy,
FIVE eolared voters attended, and a few
speeches were made by two or three
very diseonsolate leaders. The whole
e shehang y can no doubt be b0ugh
very cheap. If anybody thinks they ar
worth buying.
On the same day, the other wing o.
the Republican party had a grand bar
becne about twelve miles below town
at which twelve hundred persons Were
present. The speeches delivered a
this meeting are reported to have beer
liberal and conservative non=e0mmitta
on Federal politics, but decidedly fa.
vOrable to Gov. Warm0th and his State
policy of union.
From present indications, the parisl
of NatcnitOches will give an almos
unanimous vote for the ticket nomfna.
ted by the August eonvention.-tNatchi