The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-09-01
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

| Detroit has q new Democratic "ranche.r
| Senator Dixon is out in letter for Seymour.
General Logan has removed TO Chicago.
Gen schepck has been renominaied for Con-
| The New York Mcclellan Legion has reorganized
| and declared for Seymour and Blair.
There was a Democratic barbecue at Minien,
/ La. Saturday week. and a colored club organized.
| Brick Pomer0y is addressing the New York IN
/ terrified.
| The Washington Express states that General
Grant will shortly come out with letter avowing
| conservative sentiments.
| The Chicago Times which hitherto has reckoned
Illinois for Grant, begins to believe it is going for
Seymo ur and Blair.
The Republicans Of the first congressional dis
trict OF Missouri have nominated General VIM. A.
! Pile for reelection.
The present aspect of things in the recon.
structed Southern States, says the Herald, is
| decidedly Democratic.
Little =" Tad 4" Lincoln fell between two cars
of moving train at Cresson. Pa, recently, but
was caught by gentleman standing upon the
| platform.
A letter from Franklin Pierce. received at
| Washington, says that the change In sentiment
| in New England within the last thirty days ex-
ceeds anything he has ever known"
| Wisconsin is going for Seymour and Blair
sure. 1t is probable even that 1t will go Demo-
| cratic by sufficient majority to overcome ger
rymsndered Legislature and send Doolittle back
| TO the Senate World.
Six thousand people attended a Democratic
| meeting on the 9th ut., at Looney's Switch, a
suburb of Memphis There was tiue torchlight
procession and speeches by Coils. Looney, McFae,
galloway, Stevens, Yerger, Morgan, Douglass,
Judge Barker and ex-senator Jones. of Iowa.
The West Baton Rouge Sugar Planter says: GA
first. class torchlght process on visited Clinton
Saturday week, numbering some thirty-fye hun
bred persons, all Of whom were cheering and
ss I s ss$e B sH A. al %ss
speeches were made by some of the principal cti-
ztns of the town."
In reply to newspaper paragraph alleging that
Gen. Hunter was the only member of the court
martial who refused to sign the petition for the
pardon of Mrs. Surratt, Hunter publishes the fol-
lowing: My oath and military law precludes my
making known my vote in this case, but caa
| with propriety state that my name headed the
list of members of the court who recommended
Mrs. Suratt to the mercy Of the president aud
that have always looked with utmost contempt
on the execution of the poor woman, aud ex-
| cusing at the same time thousands of rebel men
who so much more rightly deserved hanging.
correspondent of the Chicago Tribune tells
the following story: Sevens was what country
gentleman might call "a powerful poor polii'
cian." His pride was more dangerous than his
faDsticism; for, rather than yield point he had
made be would assail the record and go far away
from the truth for mere consistency's sake. His
personal faith was good, If faithfully given, but
he set little penalty on conventional lie. =" You
said this to my face, Mr.. Stevens said an Office
seeker, last spring. Z" / did not, sir !" my
partner here heard you, and my brother in law. !
ayes, Mr.. Stevens, We did," Then lied ~
cried Mr.. Stevens. I" il wasn't the fact ~
, The New Orleans correspondent OF the New
. | York Herald writes as follows: =" The morning
after the first attack had been made in the streets
| of New Orleans on the negro Democrat Rollins
, a colored boy from leading restaurant came
? | into a room where several distinguished United
States army officers were at breakfast. Why
SAM said Colonel a., your people have beer
| Serve him right, Wish dey'd done it, Why
l Hasn't he as much right 10 his opinions as white
. msnr No niger hs'n't got no right to be
Democrat. Democrats wants to put Us bac'
where We were afore Republicans wants to rais'
us. No niger liant got no right to be Demo
q crat. Use for KILN dem all. don't say nuffl
. to white folks. Dey can vote as dey like, bu
niggers hant got no right to live 'scept dey vote
Republican, And with gesture OF fierce mag
nifty the colored servitor feft the room. Only TIT
= personal influence and interference Of Governo
= Warmoth prevented the views thus expresse
a being carried out to the full extent in the
Rollins. The fire yet smouders and may at an
time burst into a fame. These semi civilized ne
|, groes have been long accustomed to see an
o hear of the free and unpunished use of re
n | volver and bowie knife in the hands of tn
| whites their former masters) they have bee
= | fearfully tempered with by INSCRIPTIONS ad
II venturers from the North. The possibility
probability desirability of the streets of Ne'
r | Orleans again running with human blood, o
Win ss e Sd tie II CSa HEGH s being sgan aTsnc9e
) before them by carpetbsg orators. They ar
Q fsmiliarized with the idea of bo0dshed. The
p will not shrink from it if it comes. This is onl
: one phase of the question. II has many.
pessanter thing to look upon is the fact that man
;, Of the negroes in the city are Withdrawing them
If selves from those who have hitherto contr0lle
, them, and are forming clubs Of their own and in
!, vitiDg whom they please to address them. One Q
- these independent negro meetings witnessed
ID | singular scene the night before last: whit
. Radical, hitherto regarded as the REORGANIZATION
all that is most Objectionable TO the Southern
> whites, and recently delegate from dissatisfied
'r Republicans to Washington, was invited to addres
s. them and bis speech was in substance as follows
ID My friends-I am carpetbagger. | admit Il
"a have been among you for some time, and hav
never ceased to advocate your cause in the pres
ID of the North-in the three leading Republica
10 newspapers of New York, Washington and Phils
" dephis. But am going to leave you. We ar
N all going to leave you and you will soon be aon'
My advice to you is to unite yourselves to thos
IT, whose favor 1t is your interest 10 secure.
ir guided by those who alone can furnish you wit
Ia work and food and clothing. Join yourself
"a | the people of the South. We are going; We cal
" not ind you work TO support you ; your intere
ne lies with those who can" How far this disinte
d. ested advice might have been Influenced by q
v fact that the speaker was an unsuccessful cat
date for Office on the Republican ticket it is n
| npeesearv inuuire.