The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-07-19

were again given for him and his half centurys
unfinchiDg Democracy.
Our gifted confrere, Major J. NJ Dotson, for
merly of Mississippi, the champion Democratic
State, and late of the Picsyune, being loudly
called upon, and, with the sound and unwaverng
Democratic principles which he acquired from
bis early tutor, the Hon. Wiley P Harris, said
FellOw-citizensl This is an occasion too full OF
lofty impulse, too expressive of feeling, for long
speeches; hence my remarks will be but few.
What man, that veuerstes the Constitution Of bis
country ard the forms of representative govern.
ment that doesno hail this suspicious occ aston with
sjoyOus heart! Whose puse 50 tame that it is not
stirred in Witnessing and participating in demon
strstion like this! Well may we celebrate it with
bOnfres, with Examinations, with banners, with
martial music and, more than all, with the will.
ing, hopeful hearts of the thousands that are here
tonight. For it is the occasion of good omens
and the coming of a better time than We
have experienced for long and dresry years.
Fellow.citizens, let us then turn our faces to
that future in which is dawniBg our only hope and
in which alone is to be found and secured those
ancient liberties which are as much the inherit
ance of this people as Gods own light in the
skies.
I 1t is needless for me to dwell upon those acts of
government and against which the conservative
millions of this mighty nation are srraying them.
selves with all the ardor of freemen determined TO
from ruin their country, and the constitutional
forms Of their government. Those acts of bad
faith, subversion, tyranny, plumber and disgrace,
| are well known to you, and to all parts of the
| country.
If ever people had cause TO be united for
great and glorious purposes, the people of
| America have that cause now. For hold said
he, that unless the party now in power, and which
Is SYSTEMS caly and boldly subVerting the dearest
| rights of freemen, is not overthrow in November
| next, you will thereafter have no government
| worthy Of support or preservation. 1t will be a
| government TO which no freeman could turn with
feelings of love or respect. 1t would be power
full central despotsm, uncontrolled even by those
| precedents of governmental action which have
in mOIsrchies obtained the force of respected and
regulated law. In the exercise of wrong, rapine
and tyranny, the dark wings of its expendi1g
power would spread over the land like the gather
Ing gloom Of a thunder clOud-until, as at one
period in Roman history, the best and most patient
citizens of the republic, fed like fugitives, and
went anywhere that they might escape eUea the
protection of their own government, to say moth.
ing Of its prosecutions and misrue.
To escape this the conservative masses of the
country must be true to themselves ia November
next. Remember that those who strive not to
protect their own liberties are guilty as those
who would fitch them away. Lose not sight of
the great and mOmentOus issues involved in this
struggle, which are your rights as men, and The |
forms and usages of representative government; |
or when they are torn from you and scourged |
TO the tomb, what bright messenger then will |
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awaken with music the morning OF the 1esurrec.
ton of your liberties? Remember these things,
and with Seymour and Blair as your standard |
bearers glorious victory awaits you in Noyem.
Der next.
The meeting having been declared adjourned,
the vast crowd poured from out the Square, The
various clubs formed in the numerical order of
the wards in which they are domiciled, and, pre-.
ceded by the mounted clubs, the whole headed
by the grand marshal, Hon. A. Sambola, and his
corps of aids, then took up the line of march
an expression, by the by, made very familiar TO
many in the procession by certain four years of
travel abroad-snd went Up st. Charles to St.
Joseph, down that street to Camp down Camp
Royal street. out north side of Canal to Rampant
giving on the way salute to the headquarters of
the central committee, 205 Canal street, and back
on the south side to Canal to the Clay Statue.
The whole line of the procession was one ovation
to the great principles Of Democracy.
All the public buildings were illuminated, and a
great proportion Of the private houses were itup.
A more minute detail of the various decorations
will be found elsewhere; suffice it to be said here
that, in every instance, they were as handsome
ss the soTely depleted pockets Of our people
will now permit of, and that their worth must
ha ctr, atalf ro, A. |
rather from the indications that they gave that
the white people of our State, impoverished,
doWntrodden as they are, have yet left the
spirit TO conceive and the money to pay for de.
wherein they may, in some degree
display Il at hatred of tyranny and thirst for free.
dom which, in the last few years, have been 80
little gratfed, but which now, as ever. form the
anmating principles of our lives.
The cheers which every few moments rent the 7
air for Seymour and Blair" started in some one L
cIuo' would travel from one organization to an
other, till they died away ia the distance, when
another and louder shout would announce that the .
10 unterrifed were not yet tired of repeating the
names Of THEN leaders. Nor were those partici 0
pating in the procession alone in their homage to
hese great men. Although it almost seemed az
4 every man in town marched IN the ranks, vet "
he crowd on the sidewalks was q tremendous
me, and whenever they heard the names of their
avorites their shouts seemed to vie with those of
he members Of the clubs. The ladies' too lent b
heir presence to grace the demonstration in the h
ause oflberty and from every balcony along the ii
inc of march waved their hand lerclisfs most "
eartly whenever the loud cheers of the sterner II
ex brought to their ears the names of their n
most doughty champions. Everywhere was
he widest enthusiasm and the most perfect har.
nony. Politics were never thought Of it was ia
or freedom each man shouted when he cried t
Hurrah for Seymour and Blair" and yell each Il
nan knew that in the of the party whose IT.
eaders hess men are lie the only hopes Of our
yer again obtaining that precious boon now so =.