Show THE HON J E BRUCE BRUCE GRIT HITS BACK timm last issue of the colored american which has a larger circulation cu than the combined cincu circulation of the salt lake tribune and the herald contains mr braces reply to the editorial which appeared in the broad ax our distinguished friend has endeavored to brush aside the statements which we made in reference to the attitude which mr lincoln and his cabinet assumed toward the negro soldiers but bat he has dismally failed in his great effort mr bruce says it may or it may not be 4 fact that the most determined opposition to the enlistment eulist list ment of negroes came from mr lincoln now it occurs to us that if mr bruce is positive that mr lincoln was not opposed to permitting the negroes to fight for their own freedom it would not be absolutely necessary for him to make the admission or to use an ambiguous term or phrase the great editorial writer of the colored american very b proclaims that he has read every public paper and speech that came from the pen of abraham lin and our are not fairno fair to the character of the great liberator although he admits that mr lincoln did say gay in his firt rat inaugural manam al address it is n not a t my intention indention to inter interfere fare ip aith ith hr he institution of slavery adver y but he spoke as a lawyer guardedly and carefully ana an at hea heart easop was op posed to slavery As we have bare stated on a great many y occasions occasion that we ire have never had the ilie slightest desire to detract one iota aota from the greatness gr utness of abraham ulman JEanc Ulm ohi ln jad and we beg to inform mr brace that behave we have also abo read CT every ma public paper and ana speech I 1 thal the pen of abra ham Lincoln inco and d any one e to pont single singie radical anti speech h which fell from his th the 4 utterances of G ou ewiel eal phillips E P JY ejoy er fr i n 1 r f dirose TI rose ja enand mant 1 t irs iyA bwy affia pa W 6 A i ft mr se ISS s n V HL it I 1 eka 1 11 ato M 1 according to our way of thinking inano no man who supported that measure could be a rank abolition but according to mr braces logic heaven is hell and hell is heaven black is white and white is black the remainder of mr bruce braces a reply is unworthy of any comment ment and we beg him to reread re read the speeches which were delivered by mr lincoln during his great joint debate with stephen A douglas and by so BO doing he can very easily ascertain the sentiments which mr lincoln entertained respecting slavery and its abolishment if our worthy friend will intimate to us that he has not the time to do so we will reproduce these speeches for his benefit in the next issue of the broad ax A Ho colored lored american please copy |