Year: 1871

II 40 INV IAAACly anu PAOPCA ~


make known to our respected read
ers and friends, our fixed and uncon-
didouaI purpose TO support Gen. U.
S. Grant, for denomination and re-
election by the Republican party, to
the Presidency in 1872. We do this
! because upon the whole we consider
his nomination the most conducive
to the unity and aseendency of the
great Republican party, and to the
progress and completion of the great
work devolved upon the nation by
the late war. We do so because U.
S. Grant is an honest man and fully
in sympathy with the great work.


We do so because he is an even
minded man answering in purpose,


wise and temperate in measures. We
! do so because he is a tried man, and
has proved himself worthy of all
confidence in guiding the ship of
State in whatever storms may arise,
as well as those which have already
Earisen. We de SO because he is a
friend to civil service reform and
that he will use his wisest and best
influence to purge the Government
of corruption, and that he will rem
der all its departments as pure and
efficient as any man can in his posi-.
tion possibly render them. We do
so because he is a friend to the In
dian, and is the first President of the
United States who has recommended
a policy which in our judgment can
save that much abused race from
cruel wars and ultimate extinction.
We do so because he is firm and un-
fiinehing in his measures to enforce
the Constitution and the laws for the
protection of all the rights of our
newly enfranchised people, and thus
to secure to that people, with all
Others, an equal chance in the race
of life. We do so because whatever
mistakes he may have made during
his term of Office are as the spots
upon the sun, compared with the
eminent success which has distin
guished his Administration. Wei
do so because among all the able pa
triotic statesmen thus far named as
possible candidates for the Presi-
dency in 1872, there is not one the
certainty of whose election is so well
assured as that of q. S. Grant.


We have been in no haste to make
this announcement, and we shall be
La no haste to retract it. We have
made it, too, with a full knowledge
of the fact that some men for whom
we feel profound respect will regret
and condemn our course; but we
are in a place where deliberate con-
viction of what is wisest and best
makes it our duty to take sides, as
we now have done, and we fully be-
lieve that the coIored citizens of ev-
cry part of our country will approve
our choice.


Long ago we adopted the maxim,
"never to occupy ground which our
enemies desired us TO occupy" if
we could help it. While General
Grants nomination is opposed by
some of the truest and best friends
our race has ever had, inside and
outside of the councils of the nation,
this does not conceal from US the
fact that he of all men in the land is
most dreaded by the dark, design
ing, and reactionary elements which
have arisen in the wake of defeated
rebellion and slavery. With him as
our candidate, the last hope of these
reactiOnary forces will disappeGr,
and the country will enter upon its
new career of justice and liberty,
and will be peaceful, prosperous and
happy. Without, therefore, multi
plying words, we earnestly recon-
mend to all Republicans the renom-
ination and re. election of US. Grant
/ President of the United States in '72.


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