Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-04-15
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IChicago Tribune, 23.l


! We, the undersigned colored citizens of
Chicago, being desirous of promoting the
principles, and of securing the success of the
Republican party, and recognizing that the
outrages and cruelties heaped upon our breth-
| rem for the last ten years or more in the
South, and they now fleeing from their na-
tive land, seeking homes among strangers in
strange country, and knowing that the
voice of the dead now sleeping beneath the
sod for no other cause save for the love of
their country and political freedom speak to
US in tones louder than thunder, telling US to
stand by the party of justice, which struck
the shackles from four millions Of our race,
believe in our judgment, that in order these
wrongs may cease, the law be executed, and
justice done to white and black citizens in
The South as well as in the North, the Re-
publican party, to be successful, must nomi-
nate its best, strongest, and purest MANA
man eminent as a statesman, of indomitable
will and energy, one in whom the people
have full confidence, one who will be the
most useful to the whole people and country.
That man We believe to be James G. Blaine
We believe the actions of the politicians of
New York and Pennsylvania will work
against them, and that the current of public
sentiment will 80 turn in favor of Mr. Blaine
as TO make him President of the United
States.
We further set forth that if Gen. Grant be
nominated we will support him as the Re-
publican candidate, but not as our choice,
and hope all Republicans will do likewise.
But there is better man to conduct the af-
fairs of the country for the next four years.
We believe James G. Blaine possesses all the
requisite qualities to make very able, con-
sclentious, prudent, and wise President.
While Gen. Grant ought to and does stand
high in the estimation of our colored Ameri-
can citizens; while we know he has proved
himself to be the greatest living soldier of his
Gay, and we know he will be remembered by
our children's children to the latest genera
ton, and that his name will 60 down in his
tory, along with Sumner and the ssinted
Lincoln, as our great llberator and defender
of human right, we still believe James G.
Blaine would not onl~ be the first choice of
the ma jority of cclored citizens on election
day, but that he has been for the last four
years. And should Gen. Grant be nomina-
ted we Can only support him under cOmpul-
sion, and large number would not support
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ferences. It is no more than right that we
should express them in common with other
citizens 1t is far better to do so now before
the convention settles the question than to
try to right ourselves after we have made
failure. We believe that after all his mis-
takes of eight yeats rule as president, with
SO many unscrupulous men around him, the
country would certainly make great failure
if it put him back there. Besides it would
be paving the way for one man in future
years to be elevated to the Executive Office
for any number of years, and then lay the
way for his family to inheritit.
A great struggle is coming, imperilling the
fate of Republican principles, and maybe
that of the country, 80 far as we are con-
cerned in its welfare. To be successful next
fall is of far more consequence to us than the
success of any candidate in the convention.
But to insure success next fall, to secure the
man of our choice, to show the South that
our Government intends to enforce the law
in the far South as we'll as the far North, let
US endorse our strongest and best man, James
G. Blaine, and, if nominated, cast our united
and solid vote for him.
Aug. Cholman, J. Cunningham,
T ou,io Povru Noorro Honoo