A Colored Leader Deserts Grant

Baltiinoro iton to S . Y. Tribune. A bonibshell was throwu into the raidst of tbo Adininistration camp in JBaliinore this afternoon by the publictition of tho following letter firom tlio oolored :andiduto ou tho Oraut Klectoral ticket of this State, from the 4th Congreseional District. It ia reported that Mr. Saunlers wiü carry with ltira to tho Liberal Itojiubliean party agreat number. of colorei votes : . Baltimoüe, Jaly 8, 1S72. To tho Hon. Henry Stockbridge, Giiairinan Baltimoro City Dolegation to tha late Republícan Conveution : 8lB - Bleaee accept for yourscWes and rues from the Ith Conresaional Dis triot to tho lato Convention of .April 24, 1H72, my grateful thanks for tho conspicuous favor conferred by plat:ing ruy name on tho Grant Bleator&l ticket, and the ausuranoe of my kindly appreoiation of this and oti.cr marks df oonttdenoe d uring my participatiou in the politics of my native State. A profound sense of duty to my race and the dvmand of an unselfish patriotisra suporior to mora partisan requiroments oompel me to deoline the honor and sover my connection with tho Grant wiug of the Ropublican party. I entertain tho hope that at no dietant day colorod men, as American citizens, will Hbo superior to the apparent soliiahnoss of thoir past political actiën, which has too often been churaotemed by udhosion to mon instoad of devution to principie--, and that they will iully oomprehoud the aacreduess of the ballot and tho higher duty of citizeuship. It is but natural that ia the past colorod votera ehould have boen Consolidated within tho rauks of that party through whose instrurnontality their ïights were in part secura!, partícnlarly when the party waa itself a unit and tho rights of the colored citizonnmade a political issue; but now, when 8omo of the best mea and brightost spirits of thftt party (lecline to act with it, and join with other citizens in the formaüon of a new"er and botter party with more advanccd and moro practical ideas, within whose ranks the rights of uil men aro assured, it isun open qufietion whother the Liberal liopu: lioan party is not after all the true lti'pulliuuu party ui' i in. country. Now that all men o whnte ver oreed or jiolitical opinión ao copt the situation, reoagnize the righta o ali men, and guaranteo their maii-ten auoo, it is but fair to suppuso that the time iö really come to permit tho " da past to bury its dead," and for all yoter to come up to that plat foriü which, whilo recoguizing the equity of equal rignta, gives pronuse of perpetu al p iaoe und prosperity to the whol country. In tho coming Priidentia campajgn it is of the Iaat importance tha colored men citót off the fetters of politi cul yasaslage, ignore thë tyranuy of i falsa and vico.is party discipline, and like uil other men, exercise their politica franchise according to the dictates of ai euüghtened and untrammeled judgment Eren were it possible for me to reuiaii on your ticket, I could not approvo an abet the bitter and oontmued" factiona warfaro for whioh the great party in Maryland is reinarkable, and whioh is a dominant characteristic of that party in evory State in the Union. Neither wouid I on auy consideration lend myself to the basely ungrateful task of villifyinK and houndmg lifo-long frienda of human liberty and of equal rights, who, by their labors and ss.crifiijes through a period of more than a quarter of a century, havo inadu it posaiblo for men of my race to eujoy tho privileges of American citizenship. I have read carefully that elabórate oompilaüonof indefinite promisos of the Philadelphia platform, and beg to suggeat thst if, after more than eieven years ut' ..upremaoy and nearly fouryeargof absoluto control of evry departmont of the mmeut, it iadeomed wiso to be bo proliüc in platform declaración, it is j ust possiblo that four years' louter loaso of power will be inadequate to the fuü pertoiniiiuce of the btupendous task marked out for the party at Philadelphia. That lete nd siact _n the enÍOVIlltílit of :t;i ■ïv-il iïf]i fï..Éi 1 n...l :.i:.. rights, without discriinination on account of race, creed, color, or previous pondition ofservitudo, of irhich the Philadelphia Uonuention givea as3urance, is no doubt intended as a balín for the colored vqtera of tho country, and it is siippoêed to have great healing inüuwico, thcmgh a Republioan Congress, ia utter eontempt of this and other proruises mude at Phüiidelphia, adjourns and m;tkeá no sign. If thi3 convuntioa wus the concontrat.-d toiceofthe Republican ptrty, spenkinoauthoritutiviily for the Pzvsident, Con? gro.H and people, it is incomprehensible why somu of thuse platform senümente wero not met at once and crystftlized iuto Federal Httut prorinious. 1 do not question the wisdom of this emiuently capable and npectablo body, nor do I doubt tho sincerity of these deularrvtions, but I canuot loso sight of the fact that it is porilous in the oxtromo to iutrust tho vital measures to other and future Conwhich lur.y not in the eterna] íitnees of thitigs bo ia consonancü with the Philadelphi Gou vont ion. I dissent from the doctrine onunciated that the enforoement of the appropriatu legislation made by the recent amendment to the National Coiistitution can only bo trusted to tho Grant AduTinistrat;on. lx üio tunure of Amcriu;m oltizenship dependa upon tho succ?s of any poLitical party and is necessarily jeoparded upon the periodical return of each. National politicul contest, thon that exalted right is moiü houorary than honorable. [ñatead of boiug an object of just p;itriatic pride, it wonld be a boon unsoueht alter and despiscd wlion 'secured. Of course, I diffy r widely trom theee absurd premisos so antagcmstic to tho gonius of our institutious, and hold tbat the exeroise of the rights and the employnient of the privileges of citizenship by 'tho colored paoplo of tho country depends not up011 the suocess of a politioal party whieh is oftoher factional or seotional than national, but upon the better. sentiment, broad oharity, and advauoed civilization of the American poople as a nation. In the light of tho limitcd intelligenco I am enabled to bring to bear upon the issues now before tho people of the country, I am oonstrained to see in the Piüladelphia platform a confession of weaknees. li ny political party, ufter thrtse suceossive terms of tho administration of governmental power, has netd of euch profusión of promiee, evidently for the purposo of seouring votes to perpetúate its existence, it is within tho pale of poasibility thftt tbo country will suivivo its defoat, and go forward to the aecomplishment of itá high destiny without tho special guanlianship of suoh a party. I am persuadid that tho Cincinnati platform doos hot differ very widely in deolaration of prinoiplus frum the l'hiladelphia instrument, and that aü votera of whatevor politieal opinión can stand upon it without sacrifico of principie, and support ido jjiDural juepubliean uoimnees without stultificution, and I oonsidur the Ddorsement of these candidates by other thaii the Cinoinnati Convyntion as udditional evidunee of their aoceptability t'o tho American jiooplo. I belieVe ie to bu the duty a.s well as right of cverv Americim citizou to exci-cise h3 politica! preregativo freoly and fearlessly, and, ü:: oo oasion, givi full exprussiou to his s;mtiraents, whilo carofully respocting the same duty and right in uil other mtm; and that in govornments liko ours uil ëffort to contrji tho political action of the citizon by olaa?, casto or sectional prejudice, íbr individual, faotional, or partisan aggrandizemont, ii' iiccesst'nl to any extent, and through any considerable period of time, will innvitubly tend toward the subversión of tho very objucts i'or which oo-operative or republioan : iueuts are formed. In tiie performance of thia duty ns a oitizim, ar.d in tho exurcieo of this undoubtod right, I shall in . my humble Bphere advooate tho obliterat:on of all party linea and the sustonanco of a liew party, so coinposed aa to give pro:nise of suooess, fully masturiug the problema of the present and futuro uuder the leadership of that gnuid old voteran ofequal ri-fhts, Horace Greeley, wlioso ?cord and whoso lifc is i suffi, ífn7" ntee that thnrights of all men 1" rotected undt-r liis Adminiotraf; Ifalof the utt(. , " 1 anee of my effovt in ti..is directio"Slf?iSher do I imagino for ouo momen ." ny opm:on will affect tho general L Nevertheless, I s)mll endoavw te lï my wholo duty, and nhall acoect0"11 ully all tho conscqucncr-e. eN Very respiutfiillT, W. U. SAUNDEB8. Thé TrUnmt líonicstíjo torieatniki v ed in Bonic of tho Republican pa1beeley ever uonferred with s WUtive to gelecting any one LJT that he over áeaired any One fo meetings for him, or that ha e'ver lÜ5 anybody to try to got him nominatk the Prpsulency. Gov. Bdldwin has just pas3fl omr. j acoepted thefifth ection cf tweniJ ? on the Grand Eapids & Indiana Iü