New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-06-23

cause know that the Democratic party are
going to make terrible effort to secure the
votes of colored men by telling you that
the Republican leaders of the North have
no respect for you, and only want your
votes to ride into Office. They will say ii
you don't make bargains with them now
they will beat you anyhow, and then you
are lost. | assure you if such a thing were
possible as the success of the Democratic
party in this campaign, you will get no
better treatmentfrom them by giving them
your vote than by Withholding 1t or casting
it against them. They would turG round upon
you the day after the election, and laugh in
your faces with triumphant scorn. (Cries
Of That's SOD They would say Now you
are at our mercy againi you id niggers,
and we will treat you as we please.n But 1t
seems idle, indeed, to talk of the success of
the Democratic party. or Of their good in
tentions toward the 0olored race. They
have no good intentions now as they never
have had in the past; or if they have it
may well be said that "Hell is paved with
such good intentions;" and for that very
| reason they will have no success. The
great majority of the American people are
now, thank God, upon the side of right and
Justice, and they will prevail. l tell you,
my fellow citizens, realized more fully than
ever before when at Chicago what
had been gained for the colored
race in the past few years when
l saw the respect with which we were
treated, not because of our individual mer-
| its, but because we were the representatives
Of a race. When saw colored man, j.
H. Harris, of invited to address
| the convention, can you doubt the sinceri.
| ty of the Republican party after that? VIII
| you complain, as did the children of Israel
| to Moses, because you do not get all that
| you may have expected-position and in
| huence which you could not reasonably eX-
pect until you have gradually been educated
up to the required standard, and have so
| long breathed the glorious atmosphere of
| liberty that you can safely rely upon your
own powers? (Cries of NO. and cheers.)
| believe you will not l believe the rebel
| hordes of Louisiana, with all their craft and
their lies and their money and their in.
| fiuence, and by no species OF intimidation
and fraud, will prevent us from giving an
| overwhelming majority for Grant and COltaX
in November (Deafening cheers.)
After the speech of Captain Pinchback
Governor Warmoth introduced Hon. Charles
Hughes, saying as he did SO:
On one occasion a colored man about the
| color of Captain PinChback was making a
| speech. A couple of Irishmen were stand
ing on the ontside of the door about half
tight, paying but little attention to the pro-
ceedings, but when the colored orator
| warmed up with his theme of liberty and
I
0'Connell, the Irish patriot they reeled in.
side the building and with extended eyes
and mouth they listened with the greatest
interest, when finally one of them remark
ed, MY God, if half niger can talk that
well, how can Whote nigger talk !"
(Laughter.) l have now the pleasure OF in.
Producing to you lchOle nigger-Mr.
Charles Hughes.
Speech of Mr.. Hughes.
FELLOW CITIZENS | feel more than graft
fed in appearing before you upon this aus
piCious occasion, not that l feel that l am
competent to grapple with the great ques
tions at issue. While l have during life
of servltude been debarred from the privi
lege of acquiring an education, while every
avenue of advancement has been closed
against me by the Internal ms.
titution OF slavery laboring under
these disadvantages, have yet within me 9
heart that beats louder than thunder with
the impulses of freedom (cheers), and
moved by these impulses | appear before
you humble advocate of the party whose
J very foundation principles are universal
rights and universal suffrage. We meet to
night on Lafayette square, named after one
of the most illustrious heroes that evel
buckled sword to his side, who crossed tn,
7 Atlantic and joined with General Washing
ton to rear upon this Western continent
, temple of universal freedom. We havt
) assembled here to unite our voices in favo
of the party which is pledged to carry ou
those great ideas of the fathers of the repub
: lie. The ball began to revolye in ls6
, which has crushed out the institution o
! slavery, and will continue to reyolve unit
| every vistage of that institution and tn
5 demagogues who supported it shall be swep
} away. (Applause) How often have crep
7 | along St. Charles street when the assumed
D superior race have held their ratif
: cation meetings in this square
D and they would say to me in patronizin
@ manner might come in and hear what wa
said. But tonight stand upon this plat
form and address you, my friends, speakin
freely what think, and knowing that sha
e be protected in that right.
u While General Washington deserves til
/. credit for the establishment of this free RI
n public, General Grant, perhaps more tina
any other man, deserves the credit for it
preservation. (Cheers.I The rebel leader
Is had no idea they would have to butt such
2 fellow in the field as U. s. Grant; the
thought they could at least make some con
. promise, but when he issued his stern orde
: demanding an unconditional surrender the
! found themselves chased out of their . lal
u ditch.n
:, Having beaten them upon the battlefield
!" they come now to meet us upon the politics
y field. They say toIus, "You niggers have \
= money, and the carpet.bagger has nothin
= but his carpet bag daughter We hay
. all the money and all the land, and if t.
:, negroes don't vote we won't give thel
: , work or money! Well, think the negrot
= have adopted this motto: Freedom first
1 money next daughter and cheers.)
= When did the sun of freedom first daw
: upon us? Itcame glittering upon the point
- Yankee bayonets. Instead of carpet baI
gers they ought to be called "knapsackers
l6 Uaughter.) And tell you we shall star
,r by them so long as God gives us life an
h strength to do So (Cheers.) The "ca
4 pet baggern and the negro are united We
1t and the rebels will have a harder time
t, separate US than they did during the wa
d Uaughter.) And next November togeth'
we will pour the ballots into them as in Il
70 war we did the bullets. (Cheers.l
g. And would ask the working man of Il
)e South-the white laborer-what the Demo
le racy have ever done for him? VIII
.h was the state of the working man
y New Orleans before the war?
il was slave before the war-th
lie property of another man; but let n
1t and poor white man get to fighting an
s. the white man get the worst of
ID (laughter), and let him go and make a
l. affidavit against me, my master had none
n enough to go and buy the whole couI
er (Great laughter.) That was your chan
here before the war. It was not as good
st that of q negro whose master had plenty
N money. Somebody else, therefore, has g
ID free besides the negro. (Laughter.)
m have known German men engaged upon Il
IS same work that | was who, while ] cou
n 90 home and have a comfortable place
e, sleep, had no shelter for themselves al
s, families. This j can prove. This was q
X work Of the Shareholders monopoly, whic
N bore down upon the poor white man
,e many cases more than upon the negro, an