Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-05-29
WASHINGTON LETTER.


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sissippi, is so often spoken of as a suit
able candidate for vice-president on
the republican ticket. While the re-
publican party has professed intense
love for the colored man, its managers
have studiously Stunned his political
promotion, and nowhere has the poor
negro been able to obtain official pre-
ferment at the hands of the radicals
whether seeking this just demand in
the south or in the north. While
Senators Window and Blair are seek
ing to show that the negro is denied
his political and civil rights in the
south, not n among the entire re-
publican magnates has ever invited
him to Illinois, Ohio, New York,
Maine or Pennsylvania. On the CON
trary, the presence of the negro up in
the land of pious habits is the signal
for riots, violence and bloodshed as it
now is in Nebraska and has been in
Indiana and Ohio. Justly appreci-
ating Senator Bruce's personal charac-
teri and official services, and fifty
recognizing him as the best and most
reliable representative of the colored
people, 1.-THE Negro National Repub-
lican committee" has issued from its
headquarters in this city the follow
ing:
Pursuant to instruction of the
national executive committee of re-
publicans, engaged in promoting the
nomination Of Hon. B. X. Bruce, U.
S. senator, at Chicago, for the vice
presidency Of the United States, the
following address was issued to the re-
publican party, and particularly to
the delegates to assemble at Chicago
next month:
In presenting thename of Mr.. Bruce
for the vice presidency, we are conf
dent that his nomination will bring
strength and success to the party. You
should support him not because he is
a negro gentleman, but because his
record is consistent. For years he
has been the only republican senator
from the southern section where the
party has lost control, and hundreds
of thousands Of citizens are on the
verge of disfranchisement, who occu-
pies his place without question, and
that his official conduct is without re-
preach and approved by all parties,
while his political vote has been in
variably cast with the republican par
ty is a fact. His nomination would
raise the issue whether or not It'll DOS.
sible for the democratic party to Law
downthe nconstitutiona premise year
after year that minOrities can compel
%majorities in eleven states, forming an
entire section of the union. His
nomination would give new life and
vigor to 780, 900 republican votes in the
southern section. 1t would give en-
thusiasm to the balance of power of
$1,000 republican voters in the state of
Ohio, and to a similarly significant
republican element in the pivotal state
Of New York and in the states of In
diana, New Jersey, Connecticut and
so on. The nomination of Mr.. Bruce
would eliminate the idea of Horace
Greeley, of Thaddeus Stevens, of
Abraham Lincoln, ofCharles Sumner.
Of Ulysses Grant, Of James G. Blaine
of John Sherman, and, indeed, of the
great republican party, and relieve the
nation at once of the question of caste
in American politics. Horace Greeley
said OF the finance, the wayto resume
is to resume and the party should
understand that the way to execute
the constitution and the laws is Ia
show determination to execute them.
This, we say to the party and the ma
ton in behalf Of 5000, 900 Americans.
whose loyalty was all the nation had
to depend on at the south, and whose
unrequited toll has redeemed the la.
goons and builded cities in the waste
places, while they have ramifed the
base of a substantial commerce. In
the language of Backminister, they
have shown that the highest exercise
OF charity is charity toward the nm
charitable"
This powerful element has come Ia
believe that unless it will assert itseII
It is unworthy of the solicitude of the
American people.
j. MILTON TURNER, Chm.
w. II. BELL, Sec'y.
The word "criminate" should he
substituted for eliminate" as re-.
CARDS the ideas Of James G. Blaine
and John Sherman, for neither would
do more now han either has aver
done to place colOred men in the
front ranks of official station. r. i
true Horace Greeley had the same
ideas, and yet the negroes forgot ali
about it and voted against him for a
man who believed in slavery and was
almost a deyout democrat. when
the great lover of human
lily and friend of the Slave
was paving the way for the emancipa-
ton Of the people in bondage. II is
proper to state that Senator Blaine Is
not engaged in any effort to create a
boom for himself. In this respect, as
IN many many others, he
Is more modest than either
John Sherman or Mr. Baine.
And in this connection it is NOT i'm.
proper to state that during that no.
Rod OF his senatorial career that 6o,
come under my observation. Senate,
Bruce has deported himself in a man.
ner to gain the respect and friendsbir
even Of the southern democrats, VIII
attested their feelings bv moL;n1 H.