Worcester daily spy

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Grant proposed to perpetrate upon some of our

race in another country, and, therefore, to trust

him no longer. Must we accept this as the un

impassioned and candid judgment of a states

man? Is there not room for a doubt that Gen.

Grant, in proposing to annex Dominica, meant

to benefit the Dominican black man rather than

to harm the black iqan of Hayti? But whatever

his motive was, he abandoned the project when

he found that it did not commend itself to the

judgment of his countrymen. Shall we quarrel

with him because he repented? Even if he

meant wrong, the fact that he did not commit

it should, it seems to me, commend him the

more to our confidence. I will take your word

lor it that ho crowned that presidential iniquity

by not inviting Mr. Frederick Douglass to din

ner; but at the admission of colored men to

social attentions of that sprt has not yet become

quite universal, perhaps we may leave it a little

while longer out of the list of qualifications for

the presidency.

“It we cannot cease to believe in Gen. Grant

at your bidding, still less can we begin to be

lieve in Mr. Greeley. Had our faith in him boon

ever so strong before, it could not have survived

the treachery and folly which led him, appa

rently to gratify an insane desire fonoffiee, to

put himself into the hands of the party he had

always opposed and hated. Ijad he been ever

so much our friend, how could we trust him to

be true to us when he cannot even he tryc to

himself? But for his friendship to us I cannot

sane even your word. You constrain me to

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Worcester daily spy. (1872). Worcester [Mass.], 1872-08-31. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83021205/1872-08-31/ed-1/?sp=2

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Worcester daily spy, 1872-08-31.