New Orleans Republican., 1868-10-15
TME Ex-UNloN soLDIERs' AND
sAILORs' CLUE.

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General Steedman. is president, turned ou
last night in their fullest ranks to march il
procession, with the escort of several othel
Democratic clubs, for the purpose of re
ceiving banner and wreath.
The hero of Chickamauga had a glorious
ovation as he rode through the streets
which were lined with patriots of bott
sexes, and the Democratic ladies on bril-.
liant balconies waving their perfumed cam
brics as the hero passed.
In the ranks of General Steedman's club
were men who had fought bravely for the
maintenance of the government of the
United States, together with Others who
had not SO signally distinguished them.
selves. One of the most conspicuous oil
the members was that pure patriot, the late
Chaplain Kingston, whom the Crescent
Sian dered by stating that Speaker Lowell
would not longer hire him to pray because
bnt little time elapsed between his prayers
and oaths. Another member is gentle
| N "hOJ SASItCu DJ lhC SNculS OL L0e
evening, declared that he should buy one
paper to-day containing report of the
proceedings and procession to send to his
brother in Nova Scotia, and another to his
home" in England. Still another member
is brave captain, who, since the war has
| linked his fortunes with Creole ladv and
has become a Southern man by adoption.
Yet another was river reporter on the
REPUBLICAN last year, an intense Radical
then and appointed to place in the Gus
tomhouse for his Republicansm by Collec
tor Kellogg, which'place he still retains by
the grace of Major Fuller.
The escort was the Steamboatmen's Col
ored Democratic Club, in full ranks, four
teen strong, six of whom were minors; the
gallant Tigers, composed principally of in
telligent carpet-baggers from Ireland; the
Wide Awake Club, the Rousseau Guards
the Steedman Guards, chiefly made up of
carpet-baggers, and the the Hancock and
Constitution Clubs.
The ex Union Democratic Club halted in
front of the residence of Mr.. E. Parkman.
who 1t is said, fought bravely as a cotton
speculator at Memphis during the war. In
front of his palatial residence, No. 2S4 Ca
rondelet street, was large Transparency,
bearing the following inscription:
Soldiers and sailors led by that bril- |
liant soldier and uneomprising and con-
slstent patriot, Gen. James B. Steedman
(who at Washington, in December, 1867. |
was the first to pledge his life to protect
the President from ejectment before trial on |
the charge OF impeachmenL you may feel |
confident of success -
In presenting the banner Mr.. Parkman
made a complimentary speech, during
which he announced the astounding intel |
ligence that Connecticut has gone Demo
cratic at the risk of having interest paid in
greenbacks. Amid all the gloom cf to-
day, he said we must derive some encour-
agement from the noble example of this
club which | now address. He invoked
the club to vote as they shot
General Steedman accepted the banner
IN handsome speech, during which he
said bis comrades and himself entered and
ought In the army to secure the Union un-
Ter the Constitution, and for this they left
heir homes and everything they held dear.
Ii we had supposed, he said, we had
oeen called upon merely to perpetuate the
power O. o ap)litical plrty, W should have
stacked arms the first day of the war.
why, he asked, the difference between
he reception of this club as it marched
along the streets this evening, and the re-
,eption OF the Radical clubs as they pass
through the streets 1t is because we do
lot come to make war upon the people of
be South.
Although we have beeu defeated on the
skirmish lines, yet the main line
as not been driven back, and on the third
] November we will give them battle gal
lntly. We have not cone here tc-aight
} Jeer about political results We will do
UT duty, and If The principles we advocate
re defeated, it will not be our fault. We
lust triumph in the end, no matter what
'mporary successes our adversaries NAV
chieve. We are for the Union and the
constitution. and we will vote as we shot
General Steedman's speech was freauent-
applauded.
The procession moved a short distance
rther on and halted at the residence of
rs. b. W, Warner, where Colonel Foulke
resented in behalf of Mrs. Warner and
her ladies a wreath of flowers. He en- &
'uraged and cheered the Club by declar-
8 that 'although we are dark and over
adowed by gloom Tonight vet they
ould remember that every soldier stood
: his principles, and that the greatest evil
nee Of the sincerity of mans principles d
as willingness to stake his life in their
tense. He said in conclusion that the
inner was presented by Southern gen
'man, the wreath by Southern lady.
Colonel John A. Grow, vjce-president
the Club, responded in behalf OF the
uD, and spoke in conclusion of the mild
'position manifested by the people of the
nth at the present time. ,s,,. -. ,.
EaVious people declare that the earliest
vices rendered to the Federal cause by "
lionel Grow was as the custodian at the
rish Prison of the Yankee prisoners e
blurred and brought here from ths first
IL Run battlefield. ~ tta ls-7y
The whole affair passed off pleasantly
1 to the entire satisfaction of the Demo-
Iic ladies and gentlemen and Democratic
'cessions interested therein. The end
s not until midnight
ADVICE THAT WAS HEEDED.-Last month c
mes Gallagher, Chairman of the Demo-