New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-08-24


sympathy with loyal men in Louisiana and all over
HE world. tApplause.) | willnow call upon the
committee ON resolutions to report"
The committee thereupon reported the follow
ing:
'f RESoLUTToNs.'
"WHEREAs, We have heard with regret, and the
nation has been shocked with the tidings of the
massacre of loyal citizens in the city of New Or
leans by rebels yet armed and organized; and
g WHEREAS, One hundred loyal men have been
murdered in cold blood in said city while enjoying
that which they claim and which all good citizens
must believe to have been their right peaceably
to assemble and discuss questions pertaining to
their own interest, and two hundred have been
wounded and are now lying in the hospitals OF
New Orleans for the same cause and
WHEREAS, Loyal citizens Of the United states
are fleeing in large numbers from the Southern
country in order to escape the same death WhlGn
so many of their brethren have already been cali
ed to endure, feeling that the government winch
they have served faithfully during the iate clVA
war, fails to give them protection ana
"WHEREAs, These crimes have been committed
in sight of the flag of our country; ana were con-
| tinued for the space of three hours without the
| interference of the military authorities of the
United States whose duty it was to have preserved
| the public peace against the rebel civil authof-
4 ties who were organized for Its destrQcuoL, ana
1 to have protected loyal citizens in the right OF
| free speech; and .
"WHERE1s, 1t was known to the President of
the United States that these loyal citizens were
about to assemble, and that the civil authorities
were determined to not only prevent them from
| so doing, but to also murder them, and the Presi-
dent, instead of giving protection to the loyal
| citizens in the enjoyment of their constitutional
rights gave such aid and encouragement to their
enemies and the enemies Of the flag as led them
to believe it perfectly in accordance with the
Presidents desire and wish that said loyallstS be
dispersed that they be denied their right peaceably
to assemble, and that the civil authority was not
to be restrained in the work of numbering them
therefore, belt
'Res0Lred That We the loyal citizens of Louis
lana and New York, in mass meeting assembled,
do tender to the families and friends of our
martyred brethren in New Orleans, our most
heartfelt sympathy and coincidence; and be it
further
{" Resolved That we hold the President of the
United States guilty before God and this nation Of
the crime, Of permitting loyal citizens Of the
United Ssates to be massacred by the pardoned
Init llnrepentant rebels who have for four wears
earnestly strven for the destruction of this Union
, and that he has no excuse or paliation to otel
for his conduct, but that, on the contrary he but
deserves the condemnation of every friend Of law
! and order in our country and be it further
''ReS0lUed, That instead of pursuing such pol
icy tends to force loyal citizens away from the
Southern States Of this Union, the executive il
held by the loyal millions of this land in dutl
bound to give such citizens ample and full protec
} ton and encouragement, the neglect of which i
a gross failure Of duty, and crime of the mos
e serious character
a One, P. B. D, F G. Randolph, a reverend gen
: tleman of color, and a commissioner in Louisiana
. who spells God with little G and Randolph witt
. a large r. was then introduced. He is neither q
= black man nor white man, but a middle, anC
: cannot be classed as anything but "what is ltE
He is a complete small potato strut, plenty of gat
E and no brains, and would have been decenty tai
if he had not had so much turned up for his feet
When he got fairly on his legs he turned his bach
on the chairman, and while he perambulated up
and down the stage, his hands going all ways as j
trirau on1,r hon1 hE
{ would give the audience every time they APP
plauded a specimnn of what good marching sol
, der he would make. When he got himself vel
pulled out, he roared
Ladies' and conference.-the rebels of the Soutl
were depending for sympathy with just such con
ventions as met in Philadelphia to-day. ZAP
plause) When he waited upon President John
son and complained Of the interference with thei
schools, the President had promised to do justice
and to assist in the education of the colored PEG
lple, and to help them to rise that he had dom
his best to prevent this conflict Of races How hat
the colored people been protected? It was b,
tying the hands of their friends. He had n
doubt that Gen. Sheridan was sent out of the wa,
e on purpose. (Applause.) To the President HI
would now say: Andrew johnson, you hav
: been tried in the balance and found wanting.
5 (Applause.) The Tribune has called him to ac
d count for accepting President Johnson's hospi
, tality, totally forgetting that it was sometime
e necessary, in order to effect an object, to asso
s ciate with those who are infinitely beneath us
Laughter ana applaEse.) he would rather b.
his own poor and humble self than President John
+ son, with all his power. But two years more an
= Johnson's term will have ended, and then tn
9 dirtiesta niger in the South would not recog
e nize the dog"
. After this splendid production the meeting ad
journed.
. Il is quite evident to anybody that this meeting
called ostensibly in relation to the late riot at NeT
d Orleans, was a dodge of Greeley's, to open tn
/ campaign against johnson for the fall election
and in opposition to the Philadelphia convention
and free speech may be a very nice thing but thi
last burst of Niger eloquence respecting the Pres
!, idelt of the United States ought to condemn tn
. contemplate little specimen of ignorance an
b pomposity, Whose only modest act was that b
0 wore gilt spectacles instead of gold ones,) to
/ straight jacket for life.
. You will notice that the whole affair is q gros
t Misrepresentation and falsehood; one instanc
2 only IWillgive; Greeley said thatthe only Unio
man from Louisiana to the convention was Hel
ron; and Newman in his speech, speaking of th
different classes, puts Roselus down as one of tn
stauqch Union men of Louisiana, and this sam
Mr.. Roselius is a delegate from your State to tn
f convention. So much for Greeley's truth. He j
a great man and greatly to be feared.
! EYES AND EARS.