The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-08-09

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which You present to MS. kest assured that we
will do honor TO that flag we will carry il Haunt
ing over our heads in tits political contest with
glory.
Joy that we see the part which the ladies OF New
Orleans take In the approaching election. Where
the ladies are there Is public sentiment; II Is Q
sure sign Of success. And here Will say wnat q
contrast exists between the two great parties
which divide the country! On the eide OF the
Democracy in this city and throughout the coun,
uy, We see the youth and beauty Of the land
smiling upon rs and urging us on to victory: On
the sioe of the Radicals what Is to be seen! Moth
ing but few vile individuals who have come
here to rob us of what little has been lett TO us by
the late cruel war, and who have inveigled that
poor inferior race, the African, into seconding
their schemes.
The motto of the Democracy is pesce-the Sc
cret motto Of Radicalism is revolution and plum
der.
Miss, the days Of Rsdicssm are numbered
the Democratic party, which we here represent,
are nal ching on to victory, and on the Sd OF No
vember that flag which you present TO IA Will De
uDfurled 10 the breeze In honor of that victory.
There II an end 10 human suffer ring. and We have
been suffering long enough; the day OF our de-
liverance from the iron rod Of tyranny and mis-.
rule OF Rsoicalsm is near at hand, and well may
we be proud of the presentation you so grace
fully make 10 tonight, for il is another pledge
Of that same deliverance.
We thank you, Miss, and the gallant young gen.
uemeD imposing TINS cluD VIII cherish the Hlcm-
cry of those who have shown their appreciation
of our efforts. The blessings of peace and pros
perity will WI it this land, and we will start
life anew under the new era OF Democracy, and
ouce more will be proud to say, % am an Ameri-
can"
Many of the young gentlemen who now sur
round you have never before taken part 10 the
politics Of the country; but now, seeing the
despotism of the Radical party-seeing the dis
tress and humiliation uoder which this now
unhappy country groans-they have come for.
ward and enlisted under the banner of those
noble and pure patriots, Seymour and Blair.
(Cheers.) We viii leave nothing undone to make
our share In this contest tell in their election
for on their election does depend the return Of
that peace and prosperity which the ruthless
Radicals have banished from this country. This
flag will carry us in the present political contest
TO certain victory.
Miss, i thank you for your kindness, and
thank those whom you here represent; and in
taking my leave OF you, tender to you the
heartfelt wishes of this club, that you may live
long to enjoy the peace, happiness and pres
perity which the triumph of Democracy will
secure to our beloved republic. You say truly,
that the political sky has been dark but now
those lowering clouds are passing away, and on
the Sd day of November the rising sun of victory
will brighten that sky. shine upon with all is
efugeDce, and the last rays Of the setting sun
on that day will witness our victory.
Miss, thank you again.
The Draymen's Club.
At less than a weeks notice, or rather be-
fore their club was a week old, the strong and
sturdy draymen of New Orleans turned out
five hundred strong last evening, bringing
into their procession their serviceable ami
mails, both horse and mule They formed on
Canal street, in the neighborhood of the rem
devious of the Seymour Knights, whom they
outnumbered, and whom they outshone with
their transparencies After their line was
formed they proceeded to St Joseph Hail.
on Common street, where Miss Cecilia Egan
presented their president, A. Porteous, Esq,
with splendid banner Miss Egan spoke as
follows:
Gentlemen of the Draymen's Democratic Club:
On behalf of the ladies Of st. Josephs parish it
is my pleasing duty to present you with evil
dence of the high appreciation in which they hold
you as q body, and of their esteem for the cause
you have so periodically espoused. That cause
is Que which we have dearly at heart, and enlists
our warmest sympathies; for tits one that has for
its object the disenthrallment of ten sovereign
States. II is cause that seeks to restore to their
Just rights the white race-that glorious people
who are the representatives of progress
and civilization; that race which alone
sa-eu% 1snA Ou ana geP PIspssS
have now entered on a contest which involves not
merely life and property, but the inviolable
honor and priceless liberty Of the people of this
oppressed and plundered section of our once
happy country. The danger which we apprehend
is no fancied one, engendered by social preiu.
dices CT political hatred. 1t is gigantic evil
which you have banded together to eradicate, in
your efforts TO accomplish which you have our
heartfelt sympa,hies. But your efforts will not
be circumscribed by mere local considerations;
you are one link n chain binding patriotic
hearts from one extremity of the country to the
other. Your brethren in all these bounds view with
indignant sadness the wreck of Union which
yeur Radical opponents swo.e, when they assumed
the government to regard as invioably sacred :.
You behold discovered Union which these
same men called high heaven to witness they
would maintain in its integrity. As a salye to
your ears they tell You reconstruction is tri.
umphan but IL is the triumph of fanaticism born
OF hate, glorying in the destruction of the fairest
part OF our once happy Union, and the sbroga.
ton OF all civil government. But, gentlemen of
the Draymen's Democratic Club, a new era has
dswned the best evidence of which is that a
short time sgo. the scenes now Transporting in this
hall, would have been almost an imposslbility
The manhood which the Cyclops Butler tried to
crush, the womanhood which his demouiac heart
endeavored to degrade, both freed from the fet-
tiers that the ignoble tyrant sought to rivet and
make perpetual, now unite to cheer and be
eheered on to the glorious goal which bounds the
vista in November.
To your brave hearts and stalwart arms we now
conhde this banner not as an emblem to be
borne in frstricidal war, but as an insignia of
peace hose choicest victories are to be achieved
at the ballot box. Gentlemen you have enterei
the lists TO contend with peaceable weapons for
the restoration of that harmonious Union which
10 times gone by, was held up to the gaze of
nations for the admiration of mankind. With a
noble cause to defend, people to rehabiitate
an historic pane under which TO rally, nation TO
cement-freedom TO wTest from the hands of lib.
erticides-with, above ALL the sanction of heaveo.
and the approving smiles and prayers of mothers
wives. and sisters, you have motives for action TO
nerve the umid rouse the lethargic and render
ismous through all time in our annals the ides of
November '6S.
Mr.. Porteous made the following eloquent
reply:
Lddtes-ln receiving from the fair hands that
have wrought the beautiful banner Just presented
to tie club over which have the honor OF pre-.
siding, am filled with the complete sense of the
impossibility of one mans adequately giving ex.
preston to the high and solemn emotions
awakened in us by this proof of vonr annrobat;on