ored voters are beginning to
perceive that they have been used too long by unscrupulous
politicians" (of the Chamberlain-Bowen school) "who have employed
partisan prejudices to promote their own private fortunes." And
_The New York Tribune_, an unfaltering friend of the colored
Republicans, talks in the same strain, and gives the Independent
Republican movement its warm approval.

3. One of the strongest Republican newspapers in New England is
_The Springfield Republican_ (Mass.) which sees in the new
movement an evidence of good faith on the part of the
Conservatives, and of sagacity and honesty on the part of the
Independent Republicans.

The newspapers whose opinions we have quoted represent, in large
part, the sentiments and opinions of the people who pushed the
war against the South, and insisted on the abolition of slavery.
They say, without a dissenting voice, that the Independent
Republican movement is right and wise and just. On the other
side, a marked man, stands C. C. Bowen, who, in printed
handbills, speaks of Judge Green as "the Democratic candidate for
Governor." Colored Republicans! whom will you believe, the men
and newspapers who fought your battles when you were powerless to
help yourselves, or the men and the newspapers whose love for you
only began when you had office and public plunder to bestow upon
them?

SUNDAY MORNING, July 12, 1874

_The Warning_

If there be anything wanting to the argument we have persistently
urged upon the Republicans of this State, it is contained in the
following extract from an editorial in _The New York Times_,
General Grant's especial organ. In speaking of what General Grant
has said about South Carolina, the _Times_ says: "He (General
Grant) further added that unless a true reform was begun at once
in South Carolina, the Republican party would this fall repudiate
the so-called Republicans of the State. In fact, this is what the
Republicans of the North have already done. The Triumph of Moses
and his gang would be only the triumph of corruption, and that
the people of this country will not stand.

If we do not heed this warning in time, there will not be enough
left of our organization next year to make a respectable ward
meeting. We cannot fight the Democrats here,