The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-07-19
TEN THOUSAND PEOPLE MARCH. THROUGH
IHE STREETS.
THE SIDEWALKS CROWDED.
THE GRAND FINALE.
PEACE REIGNING EVERYWHERE.

Yesterday was an occasion which made every |
white man feel once more proud that he is white
man. After eleven O'Clock in the forenoon very |
little business of any kind transacted in New
Orleans, except at the government Offices and the
public Institutions which had to keep open.
The day was general holiday. The only busy |
people in the city were those employed in decor
aiug the different buildings along the route of the
procession. We never witnessed such enthusi sm |
as vas exhibited ell through the day, among all |
orders and ages Of people. Even the newsboys |
were carried away with the fervor Of the moment.
Each one of them, from xix to eighteen years Of |
age, had a Seymour and Blair badge in his cap
or on bis breast the ladies untirng in their
en1eavors to decorate their houses, and the good
Old merchants of New Orleans-men that have
never hitherto taken part in popular or political
demonstrations-opened their purses and urged
t leir clerks and their negro sweeps TO hasten up
their preparations for the glorious ratification
of the names OF Seymour and Blair as the choice
of the nation for the chief offices in the country.
When Major General Zachary Taylor arrived
fresh from the CORY fields of Mexico, where his
geDeraship and the bravery of his troops had de-
feated all Odds and when the entire population
turned out to do him honor and to welcome aim,
I
make ann'L~- Ae-"o-s'-"'i--. = - :,
overwhelming. But the names Of Seymour and
Blsir-one name belonging to New York, the
other TO MssouTi-have called up all the fervor,
+ the downright, unfailing fervor of the Southern
heart. Neither of those men is Southerner. Bat
Seymour has ever been the champion of the right,
ever able and fearless in vindication of law and
liberty; whilst Blair, although Union general in
the war. and brave opponent OF Southern SOL
Elders in the field has never sullied his reputation
with insult to female virtue with the assassination
of Southern citizens, or with the spois OF South
ern homes. Nor has either Seymour or Blair ever
canted to hypocIitical opinion, however universe
| that opinion may have at one time been among
the people of the differ elt sections of the country
| outside of the South. Both were war Democrats
one as statesman, the other as a soldier; but
| both opposed conscription, and have been bitter
enemies to the policy Of disfranchisng th'ir
| Southern brethren, and of forcing the ilhteTste
| negro slave into a legislator and ruIsf.
| This is why the people of New Orleans and all
| the surrounding villages and towns have been
stirred, as martial column is stirred by the sound
| of call 70 arms. This is why the men, women
and children of the old South, well as thousands
of the faithful colored people, have answered to
the call of ratification, and why yesterday after
noon was honored as in former times the glorious
Fourth of July was honored. For ourselves we
have always reverenced the Fourth as holy day,
eQusl Ito speak reverentiaIy) in remote degree to
certain holidays of the Christian faith. day which
il was duty which we owe our heroic ancestors
to celebrate and keep holy; and the dawn OF our
| regeneration from the despotism Of a corrupt and
hypocritical irrupton of self constituted fanatics,
of wretched panders, carpet baggers and seal
| I,wo n nittlor nd hn nup
been receiving accessious daily, ever since that
dawn is hailed with rejoicing, with bonfres and
Nominations, with thronged assemblies, with flags
and banners and professions. And we wish 1t to
be understood by the radicals everywhere in thi.
nation that the Old Flag-the flag which the Union
soldiers fought for and conquered undsr-the dag
which Horace Greeley. tbs ep7stle Of Northern
radicalism called "a h.u.ting lie" in the New
York Tribune-ihat old flag was conspicuous be
ycpd all others on every street and in front o.
every dwelling. Is this rebellion? Is it opposition
a., 10 the government and the authorities of th'
! | United States?
! The people of New Orleans have shown. IN
their Demonstration of last evening, that all &C
| counts to the contrary were santers and veal
D devices Of the enemy, to keep soldiery here t
sustain and protect the radicals in their coNardly
4 | U1uauly and atrociOus attacks upon all that VI
D | cherish and yearn to transmit to our posterity.
$ Every class OF our people, including all natioo
d alities-and, in sooth, our nsturalized citizen
= rivslled the native born, in their exertions I
/. make the pageant as splendid as possible-wer
out on the streets hieipg to their clubs, or hgh
: irg up, or otherwise decorating their houses. In
!, Germapia Club, at the corner of Castomhous
k and Royal streets, was magndcendy lighted u
d with sl sorts of Chinese and other fantastic lar
y terms and at the corner Of the balsony was IL
h length fresco of the Goddess Of Liberty, (sdan
D God, her photograph announces her speedy II
x tuIn after eight years sbsenos)
! ~ As soon as the western sua had sunk below u
h horizon, the windows and balconies all along Il
A. route to be taken by the procession were hght'
ca up, aud the streets were thronged with Wom'
II. and children and by men. all gazing up delgh
edly at the beautiful illumination. There were
club sticks borne by saVsge-looking rnfhAhs'
err iostling on the sidewalks, no cursing or quar-
Ell ing, no insulting Of unprotected women. Joy a