New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-01

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efforts in their behalf We ask nothin
in return for this except to be considers
worthy of giving advice to those in who's
interest we have done this work. TIL
colored people must be advised by some
body Just as the white people must be
and it is their interest 10 listen to thos
who have been faithful and steadfast
rather those who can not present any sucl
record If our services were given to tn,
cause Of universal liberty and universe
suffrage freely, and because we believed
in the justice Of our cause those who arr
Of that belief are in duty bound to trus
us before they trust the men who are now
preaching the same doctrine after it had
been made popular, because our convic.
lions have stood the test of adversely,
while those of the latter day faith have
had no such proof applied to them. In
seeking political advice mankind should
adopt the rule of accepting counsel from
"men who have always been faithful rather
than from those who only consented to be
Republicans after Republicanism became
an admitted power.
The REPUBLICAN now advises the colored
people to listen to Mr.. Sumner, who, from
his high position, which overlooks the
entire political world, addresses them in
sober and solemn language concerning
the next presidential election. Mr.. Sum-
ner is no candidate for office, and, there
fore, he can have no selfish interest in ad-
Vising them to cast their votes against
their own interest. He has not concluded
to advise them hastily, but he waited very
patiently before he concluded what coun-
sci was proper to give. His whole life has
been devoted to the advocacy of the rights
of the colored people, and his present at
titude is that of man who is attempting
to secure for the future the advantages
which he has gained in the past 1t is
one thing to win victory, but it is an
other to harvest the fruits. Many men
have won battles that their soldiers have
lost the benefits of, and it is Just as impor-
tant that the colored people should trust
the men who have led them so far as it is
for an army to obey its general after the
enemy has given ground. Mr.. Sumner is
the general of emancipation. He is now
directing the pursuit that is to be made
since the field has been won. The
colored people can trust him, because
he believes in them. It is necessary. that
this confidence should be mutual 1t is
that the oneside should have an
honest judgment, and that the other should
have implicit confidence. Summers entire
life is the evidence of his fidelity to the
colored people, and nowit behooves the |
oolored people to trust him He gives
them reasons why they should pursue a
given policy. He tells them they should |
vote for Horace Greeley because it is safe
Tor them to do So He tells them they
should trust Greeley before Grant, because
Greeley was always right and Grant was
.lways wrong Before the war Grant was
pro-slayery Democrat. He said so him
elf Since the war he has done nothing
n favor of the negroes that Congress did
lot require him to do. He was raised in
he belief that negroes should be slaves;
e was trained in the army which is an
institution. He attempted to
estroy the only negro republic on the
yestern continent He abused San Do
lingo, and bullied Hayti, not for the
eneft Of the colored people, but for the
enefit of lot of white Adventures. His
hole record up to the time he was Sc
cited as the candidate of the Republican
arty, was opposed to the colored people,
nd he has never given any satisfactory
7idence since his election that he has !"
hanged his faith. He is at war with al
ost all the old Abolitionists of the North.
e is the favorite to-day of the most VIC
mt part Of the Democracy in the South
combs, Stephens, Mosby, Wise, and a
ost of Southern men who still hope to
'nfscate the labor of the negroes by some
'rt Of Legislative trick, are all in favor of !
rant because they hate Greeley's aboh- 8
on record. Is this, of itself, not sufficient
make the colored people suspicious of !
eneral Grant?
We appeal, then, to the colored voters |
the State Of Louisiana to give us their f
tention. They can not doubt what we c
we done, and they should not doubt I
lat we intend to do. Our interest de- c
lnds that they should be protected, for a
less their rights are preserved we lose L
that we have labored for. The same t
" be more appropriately said of Mr. =
inner. IF he does not uphold the work
his life, he will be abused as a failure
reafter. If the race that he has helped
set free does not preserve its freedom, a
en- the world will say that Sumner made t,
great and fatal mistake This is why he G
res the advice that he does. He is "
xlous to perfect the victory that has Il
en- won in favor of liberty, and he tells t.
that the best way to do this is to trust r,
e men who gained the fight, in pref R
nee to those who stood in the way of G
success, as General Grant did, when Ia
voted and acted with the Democratic p,
rty. We join our solicitation to that a
the great Senator from Massa- l."
1setts. We are interested in not
nc, L,cI-,rorJ Tho c,rouD5 that hoe