New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-08-29

Never. know by Southern boast what
that election means. I'll never risk living ia
Georgia under Greeley-I'll sell out and
come North"
Such is the testimony of loyal man In taa
South. That is how it looks in Georgia,
Gentlemen, | have another interest in
Grants election. The anti-slavery cause wts
only portion OF the great struggle between
| capital and labor. Capital undertook to own
the laborer. We have broken that up, II
Grant is elected that dispute and all ouos.
tions connected with it sink out OF sight. AL
the issues OF the war are put beyond debate,
and clear field is left for the discussion CS
the labor movement. do not count mus II
ON the recognition of that agreement by Il o
Republican convention, though l grateful
appreciate 1t. But see in the bare succe .
itself OF Gen. Grant the retiring of old issu
and the securing of a place for new ones.
II Greeley is elected we shall spend tho
next four years in fighting over the war qual.
rels, constitutional amendments, negroes
rights, State rights, reputation, and South
ern debts. And we shall have besides a con.
temptuous ignoring Of the labor question. Its
friends were at Cincinnati. The convention
scOrned their appeals, and Mr. Schurz him.
self affirmed that labor was ''not 1.-Two issue'
President Grant means peace and opportr.
nifty to agitate the great industrial questions
VA Wiz AiCSNtCut uIt6lbf tNo
scandal and wrangle of Andy Johnson 8 years
over again, with secession encampsd in
Washington.
The saddest line to me Of Mr.. Summers let
ter was where he warns you colored men not
=" TO band together in hostile camp and keep
alive the separation of races!" The negro,
robbed, tortured, murdered, trodden under
foot, defenseless in unresisting submission
who has the heart to charge him with an iota
OF the guilt of keeping alive the separation
OF races?" Surely this lamb has never shown
any hate, or an undue prejudice against tie
wolf. The Senator used to think all the fault
was on the other side.
We put aside with the scorn it deserves the
insult implied in preaching to us forgiveness
and conciliatiOn. AnderSonville and Libby
prison are still living horrors. Besides tho
thousands who were starved there, hundreds
still drag out weary lives in our streets,
poisoned all through by that dread cruelty.
The graves of seven white native Georgian
loyal men, ruthlessly shot down in the streets,
are hardly yet covered. The-lirst born of
hundred thousand households arc still freshly
mourned. Till within a year, throughout
half the South, the negro was robbed, tor
tured, and murdered with impunity, the South
ern press glorying in the atrocities. Mean
while-thanks to the unparalleled mercy, tho
unutterable generosity of the nation-ninety.
nine out Of every one hundred Confederate
soldiers enjoy to-day all the rights they had
| before the war. Jefferson Davis and his fell
| low assassins-the rec jailors of Anderson
vile and Libby
"Shame on those cruel eyes
That bore to look on torture
| And dared not look on wac'--
still live unframed, in peaceful possession Of
every right the law can give, except that Of
/ xhasr IL. os,~aS H..
| which has spared them. l dare not atfix tie
epithet think fitting to that mood of mild
which deems it necessary and becoming 10
preach to such a community the duty Of fur.
| yiveness
We do forgive. We have forgiven. But
duty to the dead and to the negro forbids US
to trust power to any hands without un-
doubted, indubitable certainty that such
hands are trustworthy. II we fail in this
caution we shall only have decoyed the me-
Iro into danger and left him doubly defense
less. 1 wish my voice could be heard by every
colored man down to the Gulf; not becaus Q
they need my advice. No; they understand
and see the danger. But I should like to
rally them.to help us a second time, to save
the nation. I should say to them, ''Vote,
every one of you, for Grant, as you valu,
property, life, wife, or child. If Greeley Is
elected, arm, concentrate, conceal your
property-but organize for defense. You
will need it soon and sadly"
Workingmen, rally now, to save your great
question from being crowded out and post.
poned another four years.
Soldiers, at the roll-call in November les
no loyal man fail to answer to his name. We
decorate our loyal graves with worse than
empty ceremonies ii over them we clasp
hands with still revengeful enemies. When
parties and politicians betray us, do you
rally, as you did before, and under the same
great Captain, to save the State.
see traitors in the capitol parting the nation .
raiment and casting lots for its flag. But we
are sure to see Congress full Of traitors, and
in the White House their tool. Let every
man who would avert that danger vote for
Grant. WENDELL PHILLIPS.