It betrayed the cause for which Douglass, Garrison and others labored, in the blind policy it pursued in reconstructing the rebellious States.

It made slaves freemen and freemen slaves in the same breath by conferring the franchise and withholding the guarantees to insure its exercise; it betrayed its trust in permitting thousands of innocent men to be slaughtered without declaring the South in rebellion, and in pardoning murders, whom tardy justice had consigned to a felon's dungeon.

It is even now powerless to insure an honest expression of the vote of the colored citizen.

For these things, I do not deem it binding upon colored men further to support the Republican party when other more advantageous affiliations can be formed.

And what of the Bourbon Democratic party?
There has not been, there is not now, nor will there ever be, any good thing in it for the colored man.