The reason for this result would be in the first place that the excuse given was insincere and untrue, and in the second place, because the incumbent of the office, whoever he might be, would produce no effect whatsoever in the local situation in consequence of his appointment to the office and his acceptance of it.

If there should be any change at all in the situation it would doubtless be to the detriment of the Republican party; for there would, no doubt, be some who would be disposed to resent what would seem to them to be political or party ingratitude.
So far as the colored Republicans are concerned they have been in the past, and must be in the future, nothing more than party allies.

They have never dominated a State, nor have they controlled the Republican organization of any State to the exclusion of the white men thereof.
They have simply been the allies of white men who could be induced to come forward and assume the leadership.

This is all they have been in the past; it is all they desire to be in the future.

They are perfectly willing to follow where others lead provided those others lead wisely and in the right direction.