Washington D.C., Oct. 3 — My Dear Dalzell: Your letter came to me in the midst of the Louisville convention. I had no time to acknowledge and thank you for it at the moment, as I should have gladly done. I have read it, and can bear witness to the truth that you have ever been a true friend of my people and of the Republican party. I concede to you the gift of prophecy, and should like to have you tell me whom the Republican party will put in nomination next year. I see that my views at the Louisville convention are variously commented upon. I am thought to be an Independent, and so I am, but I am an Independent inside of the Republican party. I can have all the independence I want inside of the Republican party. I am both independent and dependent. I do not take a step in life that I am not dependent on somebody or something. In politics I am dependent upon one or the other political party, and I am foolish enough to think that the Republican party may as safely be trusted with the destiny of the Republic and the rights of the colored people as the Democratic party, and in this I know I am right. For the life of me I cannot see how any honest colored man who has brains enough to put two ideas together can allow himself under the notion of independence to give aid and comfort to the Democratic party in Ohio or elsewhere. Woe to the colored people of this country when the Republican party shall triumph in spite of the treacherous votes of colored men. Bad as our condition now is, it would be worse then. We should neither have nor deserve the confidence of any party, and would, to use a slang phrase, "Be out in the cold." My advice to colored men everywhere is to stick to the Republican party. Tell your wants, hold the party up to its profession, but do your utmost to keep it in power in State and Nation.