Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-06-18
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NOON DISPATCHES
NEW YORK DISPATCHES.
Mexican Ahairs-New Orleans Radical
COnVenti0n-IndIan Affairs.

SOnNentl0n-Andian Affairs.
New YORK, June 1.-THE Herald's
City Of Mexico correspondence, under date
of May 25th, gives doleful account of the
situation in the capital. A famine was
threatening the poor inside the walls, and
it was only due to the iudicious measures
of the chief of the municipality that a
panic had not swept the populace into dis
order and riot The imposition and collec-
ton of taxes continued unremittingly, be-
ing carried on in the most tyrannical and
exacting manner.
The Heralds New Orleans special saws ::
The Radical Republican State Convention
adjourned sine die Saturday night, after
endorsing the following platform We ad-
vocate and will enforce perfect equality
under the law to all men without distinc-
ton of race or color, and endorse the acts
Of the thirty-nineth and fortieth Congress,
as will reconstruct Louisiana upon the
Congressional basis, and send to Congress
only true and loyal men. Nominations for
office to be made only Of those who will
enforce perfect equality and the right to
hold office, irrespective of race or color.
Wewill insist on perfect equality, without
distinction of race or color, in the right to
vote and enter the jury box without any
educational or property qualifications be-
ing required. Also on ther right to practice all
professions and to buy, sell and travel, and
to be entertained, and to enter into any
and all civil contracts. We will advocate
the granting of immediate assistance to the
general government for rebuilding the
levees, and we will also advocate the
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State as far as practicable, into small farms,
in order that the masses of our people may
be enabled to become land holders. We
will advocate the repeal of the cotton tax
by Congress, and if not granted, we will
demand as a right, that that class of legis-
lation be abolished and taxes laid on all
the productive wealth of the Union. Let
the products of agriculture, mines and
manufactures, be equally and fairly taxed.
We will advocate equality in schools and
the enforcement of the eight hour system,
except in cases of special contract. We
will insist on thorough revision of the
laws of Louisiana, that they may guarantee
equal Justice to black and white alike.
We pledge ourselves to aid the government
in paying the last dollar of the public debt.
The platform further condems President
Johnson's amnesty proclamation, believing
the disfranchisement of the Rebels the
highest duty of the general government. 1t
fayorsth maintenance ofan adeqnete mill
tary force in Louisiana to see the laws en-
forced, and life and property protected. 1t
declares that no man is to be support
ed for office who will not boldly and
openly pledge himself to make equal dis
tribution among the white and colored
alike, of all offices to which he may have
the power of appointment as the
newly enfranchised citizens constitute a
majority of the party at least one half OF
the nominations for elective Offices shall
be taken from that class; no distinction to
be made whether nominees or appointees
whether born free or not, provided they
are loyal, capable and honest The party
will always discountenance any attemp: on
the part of any race or class TO assume
| practical control of any branch of the gov.
ernment, TO the exclusion of any race ol
| color.
The Tribune's special says Senator's Hen.
derson, Chairman, Indian Commissioner
who has been out on the plains with Gen.
Hancock, says half the reports concerning
| Indian depredations are false, gotten up L
make money by putting the government t.
cost. In 1865, it cost the governmen
| S29,000,000 to carry on the Indian war, anC
| S3,O0O,0OO alone was paid to one firm fol
transportation. Parties whom the news
papers call scouts and traders, are engage,
in prompting the Indians to hostilities