New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-09-14
The Presiaent'. St. 1oul. speeen.

5tfl llSt., py the CitlEeus Oh Louis, J0nn-
son made speech, which we find but imperfectly
reported in the Republican of the 10th. We make
out from this report that, during the course ofthe
discourse, voices in the throng cried out, NEW
Orleans .
| The President then said:
| Perhaps if You had word or two on the sub
! jectsof New Orleans, you might understand more
| about it than you do daughter and applause
| If you will take up the riot of New Orleans, and
trace it back to its source, or to its immediate
cause, you will find out who is responsible for the
| blood that was shed there. If you will take up
| the proceedings in their caucuses you will under
| stand that they-the radical Congress-then knew
| (cheers) that convention was to be called which
was extinct, by its power having expired; thatit
was said, and the intention was that new gov
eminent was to be organized and, in the organ
izatlon Of that government, the intention was to
enfranchise one portion of the population called
| the colored population, who had just been eman-
| cipated, and at the same time dsfranchise white
men. (Great cheering)
When you read the speeches that were made or
take up the tacts,-on Friday and Saturday before
| that convention sat-you will there find that
speeches were made incendiary in their character,
exciting the black population to arm themselves,
and prepare for the shedding of blood a voice,
''thats so - and cheers.) You will also find that
the convention did assemble in violation of law,
and that its intention was to supercede the recog.
nized authorities to the State government of Lou
isiana, which had been recognized by the govern
/
in that convention with the intention of superced-
ing and upturning the civil government which had
1 been recognized by the government of the United
States-I say that he was traitor to the Constitu
ton of the United States tCheers) And hence,
| you find that another rebellion was commenced,
having its originin the radical Congress. These
men were TO go there; government was to be or
! gained, and the one in Louisiana was to be super
| coded, set aside and oyerthrown And then the
| question was to come up, when they had estab-
lished their governments question Of political
power, which of the two governments was to be
Erecognized--a government inaugurated under this
defunct convention-set up in violation of law,
and without the will of the people; then, when they
had established their government, and extended
universal or impartial franchise, as they called it,
to this colored population, then this radical Con
gress was to determine that government estab-
lished on negro votes was to be the government of
Louisiana. (Voices nevern and cheers and thur
So much for the New Orleans riot; and there
was the cause and the origin of the blood that
was shed, and every drop of blood that was shed
Is upon their skirts, and they responsible for
it. (Cheers.l | could trace this thing a little |
closer, but will not do it here tonight. But
when you talk about New Orleans, and talk about
the causes and consequences that resulted from !
proceedings Of that king, perhaps, as have been
introduced here, and you have provoked ques- |
tons of this kind though it does not provoke me,
will tell you few wholesome things that have |
been done by this radical Congress, in connection
with New Orleans and the extension of the cleo |
tive franchise. | know that have been traduced |
and abused. | know it has come in advance of |
me here, as it has elsewhere; and that l have
attempted to exercise an arbitrary power in re-
sisting laws that were intended to be forced upon
the government. CHEERS, and cries Of nurrah.)
That had exercised the veto power. e. Bully
for you.'D That had abandoned the party that |
elected me, and that I was a traitor because
exercised the veto power in attempting to arrest
and did arrest for time bill that was called
freedman's bureau BILL (Cheers.) That was a |
traitor! And have been traduoed. have been
slandered. have been maligned. / have been
called Judas lscariot, and all that. Now, my
eountrymen, it is very easy to indulge in epithets.
1t is very easy to call q man Judas, and cry out |
traitor; but when one is called upon to give |
arguments and facts, he is very often found
waiting.
Judas Iscariot! Judas There was Judas
once, one of the twelve apostles. The twelve
apostles had Christ, and He never could have
have played the Judas, who has been my Christ
that have played the Judas with? Was it Thad.
Stevens? Was it Wendell Phillips? Was it Chas.
sumner? (Hisses and cheers.) Are these the
The Saviour of men, and is everybody that differs
with them in opinion, and that tries to stay their
iiabolical and nefarious policy, to be denounced II
IS Judas? C''Hurrah for Andy and eheers.)
In the days when there were twelve apostles
and when there was a Christ while there were !
Judases, there were unbelieVers. Yes, while
here were Judases there were unbelieyers-
= three grOans for Fletcher ~ men who perse-
,uted, and slandered, and brought Him before /
'ontius PLATE, and preferred charges and CON S
emned aud put Him to death on the Cross to 5
atsRy unbelieyers; and this same prosecuting, b
abolical and nefariOus clan to-day would perse- J
ute and shed the blood of innocent men to carry
nut their purposes! tCheers) But a short time
lnce heard some one say in the crowd that we
lad Moses. daughter and Cheers And | -
now sometimes it has been said that / have said I
hat would be the Moses of the colOred man.
&c Never and cheers.)
Ihaye abored as much in the cause of eTanci- +
alton as any other mortal man living, but while 0
ave str1yen to emancipate the colored man,
ave felt and now feel that we have a great many s
White men that want emancipation. daughter {
nd cheers.) There is a set amongst you that j,
AVE got shackles on their limbs and are as much hi
nder the heel and control of their masters as the
0lored man that was cmanCipated. (Cheers.1
call upon you here tonight, as freemen as men
VINO favor the emancipation of the white man. as
veil as the colored ones. l say to you | have 3
1een IN favor of emancipation. | have nothing to
tisguse about that. have tried to do as much,
ana nave done as much as any man. and when S
they talk about Moses and the colored man being I
ed into the promised land, where is the land to j.,
which this clan proposes to lead them? (Cheers.)
When we talk about taking them out from among 7
the white population and sending them to other
chimes, what is it they propose? Why it is TO J
give us a freedmen's bureau. And after giving us
5reedmen's bureau, what then? Why, here in the /
south 1t Is not necessary for to talk to you I
where have lived and you have lived, and under
stand the whole system, and how it operates; we q
know how the slaves have been worked hereto.
fore. Their original owners bought the land and
'aised the negroes, or purchased them, the case
night be; paid all the expenses Of carrying on
he farm, and in the end after producing tobacco,
cotton, hemp and fax, and all the various products
Of the South, bringing them into the market, with
out any profit to them, while these owners put it
ton before the emancipation. This was their cor
diion before we talked about their Noses"
daughter
Now, my countrymen, let me call your atten-