The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1872-08-21
% Il g !. E'f3xss AT<sfsxx rs SO 3s4s1x 1ss

| 81 ? % !.
Horace 6 ee!ey was born to poverty
and educated himself in o printing of
fee. PRESIDENT. Grant, fortunate in
early patronage, became a cadet a
West Point, and was educated at til,
public expense. One started with moth
ing but industry and II character; tht
other started with military commits
: ,ion. One was trained as q civilian
the other as a soldier. !. Horace Gree.
ley stood .ortl as reiormer and abo
litionist. resident Grant enlisted al
q pro slavery Democrat, and at tlt
election Of. James Buchanan, fortified
by his vote all pretensious of slavery
including the bred Scott decision
Horace Greeley, from early life, was
earnest and constant against slavery
full of sympathy with. the colored race
and always foremost in the great bat.
tie for their rights. President Grant
except as a soldier summoned BY The
terrible accident of war, never did any
thing against slavery, nor has lie at any
time shown any sympathy with fhe
Icolored race. Horace Greeley, earnest
~ desired that our colpred fellow citi-
zens should vote, and ably championed
+ 9" ' IMPRACTICAL SUFFRAGE; ~ +
bnt President Grant was on the otlei
side. Beyond these contrast, which
are marked, 1t cannot be forgotten that
Horace Greeley is person OF large
heart and large understanding; trained
ito the support of human, rights; al
ways ready for any good caHse, and
never deferred by opposition or re.
proach, as when for long years he be-
friended yonF People. Add to these
THE qualities conspicuous in his life,
his untiriDg Industry, which leaves no
4 moment without its fruits; abundant
I political knowledge and acquaintance,
history, the instinct and graspof states
mansIip, an amiab!e nature, a mag
| unanimous sonl, and above. all, an hon
esty which no suspicion has touched,
and you have a brief protraiture.
These are the 4gisasE
ANTECEDENTs OF HORACE GREELEY.
Few of these things appear in the
President. His great success in war
and the honor he has won, cannot
change the record. Of his conduct to-
ward your people, especially in con-
trast with the lifetime fidelity of his
competitor; while there are unhappy
antecedent SHOWING that in the prose-.
cntion of his plans hecares nothing for
the colored race. The story is painful.
hut it must be told. I refer to the
outrage he. perpetrated upon Hayti,
with its eight hundred Thousand bucks
engaged in the great experiment of
self government. Here is a most in
structiye anteceAent revealing beyond.
question his tue nature, and which is
attested by documentary evidence.
Conceiving Tie idea of g .'f7 go
.| ASNEXlNG DosIINIcA, ), - ~
which is the Spanish part ofthe island,
and shrinking atnotllmg he began by
Selling the Government war powers, in
flagrant violation of the, Constitution,
and then, at q great expenditure of
money, sent several armed ships Of the
navy, including monitors, to maintain
the. usurper Baez in power, that
through him he might obtain i
pa THE COVETED fRtzE..j . 80 u
Not content with this a,daeious dieta-
torship, he proceeded 20 strike at the
Independence. of the black republic in
an open nlenace of war, and all with
out the sanction Of Congress, to which
is committed the war-making power.
Sailing into the larbor of Port-au-
Prince with our most powerful n1oni-
tor, the Dictator -propeIly named for
this service-also the frigats Seven, as 4
consort, and other monitors in their
train, tho Admiral, acting upder in
strpctions from Washington, proceed
ed to the executive mansion accom-
panied by the officers of his squadron,
and then pointing to the great war
slips in sight from the windows dealt
his menance of war, threatening to-
sink or capture tie Haytien ships. -
The. President was black, not white.
The admiral wonld have done no such
thing to any white ruler, nor would
our country have tolerated such a
menace from any government in the
world Here was an indignity not
only to black republic with it's popu-
lation of eight hundred thousand, but
to the & s1s4s E5q s.
2 AFRICAN RACE EVERYWHERE, a
and especially in our own. copntrv.
Nor did it end here. From this on the
navy of the United States was hover
ing on the coast keeping that insulted
people in constant anxiety, willie Presi-
dent Grant was to them like hawk
sailing in the air, and ready to swoop
uponfl,is prey. This heartless, cruel
proceeding found a victim among our
white fellow citizens. an excellent |,
of Connecticut, praised by t
all who knew him, was plunged into