Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1866-07-26

will furnish partial antidote.
~ Through the courtesy of one
who is expert at taking down the
remarks of public speakers, we are
enabled to reproduce below the adj
dresses delivered by Judge Posey
and Col. Fuqua at the Parish Com
vention in our city on Saturday last.
Our reportorial friend was present
on that occasion, "takin' notes." and
from his jottings we are furnished
with faithful version of the remarks
which fell from the above-named
gentlemen on said occasion.
The addresses will doubtless be
conned with no little interest by
those of our readers who may not
have enjoyed the pleasure of hearing
them; and there may be others among
those even, who were of the auditory,
to whom the addresses would we'll
repay perusing:
ADDRESS OF HON. r. T. PosEY.
The President being requested, stated
briefly what he understood to be the OBJ
ject of the meeting 1t was an organizes
ton called for the purpose Of ratifying the
nomination of the delegates to the Phila-
delphia Convention, and to express the
sentiments Of the citizens of the parish in
relation to that Convention. The object
of that Convention was to establish new
party, organized upon principles to which
every patriotic man, devoted solely to the
great interests of his country could sub
cribe.
1t was understood by every man of intelli-
gence that the dominant party in Congress
we're determined to deny to the Southern
people the right and justice Of representa-
ton in Congress until they would accept
conditions which would be unwse and
exceedingly contrary to the wishes of the
people. None can assert, with truth, tn at
an indisposition to give the right of suf.
trage and Of Office to the colored people, is
inconsistent with genuine loyalty to the
United States Government
The war ended more than year since
those who carried on that tremendous con-
fict against the Government, after its
close, affirmed under oath that, heuceforth
they would support and defend the Gov
ernment-19-20ths of the people he firmly
believed were to day as heartily recon-
ciled to the Government as its greatest
lover could desire-Congress should allow
them epresentation-the repose of the
country after the mighty agitation it has
undergone; its prosperity and glory re-
CURED it-justice demanded it. Let the
wise men of the South meet those of the |
North, each representing, wholly, the SEN
timents of the people from whom they
came, at Philadelphia in Convention, and |
the friendly interchange Of sentiment, the |
pledges reciprocally made and given, will |
and must work magicaliy in favor of re-
construction and the perpetuity of the
Union.
ADDRESS OF COL. JAMES o. FUQUA.
From old habit | was about to say,
fellow citizens! but that would not be an
appropriate expression, as We hardly feel
we are such. We do however cherish the
recol!ec Of the time when we were cti-
zens, and hope the time will soon return
when we will again be citizens admitted
to all the rights and privilege to which
we are entitled, under the Constitution of
the country, from which we are n ow de-
barred by the action of the dominant party
the Government.
1t has been said by those who have come
among us, in the interest of this party
that we still cherish sen timents of hos
tility and enmity to the Government, and
that we, or a large proportion of US, are
hopefully looking forward to the time,
when we can gather sufficient strength to
overthrow the Government. l need not
say that these charges are false-that they
are inventions intended to bolster up the
cause of the party now seeking to subvert
the Constitution, and to reduce us to de-