New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-07-05


June 90 1859
The Chase movement hez bin weighin
upon my mind like incubus. Their wuz
among our people IA teelin NV distrust at this
idea Nv takin up eZ our candidate man
who, to say the least, wuz the bloodiest
Ablishnist who ever Gust the country, aud
/ coOdent altogether blame EN-. Ez Deekin
Pogram remarkt to me at the very last con-
vershashen We he'd but one, " kin possibly
90 Chase, but will it end there? 'SpOZen
Butler shood bolt Grant, must we put him
on for Vice President? Hev got to sup
port Chase and Butler or Chase and Sum
ner? Forbid it, Hevin."
therefore went on to Washinton to inter
view with Chase. ..
The Choef Justiss reserved me Corjelly.
When he found wuZ from Kentucky he
remarked that he wuZ delited that came
when he Wuz orr the bench, ez he wood hev
felt 1t his dooty 10 hev adjourned court to
heV the pleasure NV an interview, and he
RELY disiked TO interfere with public biznis.
"Now, sir, sed he, II am ready to give
700 ansers to SIGH questions ez 700 may
desire. 700 will find paper and pencil on
the table to put down my ansers, or, Ell 700
prefer il, | will hev short hand reporter in
the presence
I declined the short hand reporter, and
proceeded.
g'The Demoerisy NV Kentucky hev long
admired yoOr gigantic abilities, and the
sterlin strate-forerd simplicity Nv yoor
character They wood hev bin glad to hev
testified at any time Their apprecisshen NV
700, but there wuz between yoo and them
some site differences NV opinion upon mat
tiers nv public policy which prevented it.
But they alluZ loved 700, and they rejoice
that tier is prospect now that these diff
ferences may be smoothed down, SO that
Yoo may rush into the embrace nv Ken
lucky day l ask 700 to give me yoor views
lr fffat A fri1rf clio
HWilimly, willinly, and bear in mind that
I shell speek with the utmost tranknis and
plainness. Slavery, my dear sir, consider
in the abstract, an evil, tho perhaps it wuz,
in its practice workins, an onmixed good.
Their is no yoose that kin see in dscussn
IL. It's cleerly dead ishoo, and my motto
hez aliuz bh-let the dead bury the dead
Pass on to the next query"
Wat is yOor Opinyun Nv withdrawn the
troons from the Southern States?h
0Fhe constoOshen knows the South eZ the
North The citizens Nv the Southern States
nov that crooel and deyastatin war is over,
kin find ample perteckshen under the con-
EtOoshen and by the operashun Nv the laws.
Hewitt 700 justices Nv the peece, and Amt
they sworn to yindicate the laws? To them
let the people NV the South confidently ap-
ped. Why keep anything there to remind
an already irritated people Nv dead
ishoow
swat is yoor opinyun NV Niger suffrage?2
"Iobiect mildly but firmly to the yoos
nv the term .Rigger.' There is no SIGH
word. Webster puts the word niger
among the yulgarisms NY which this age is
unfortunitly prolific. 1t is doubtless cor
Tupti0n nv the word negro witch word is
YoBsed to kiver the Afrikan race. wave my
objection to the word, however. Ez regards
e2tendm the suffrage to our Afrikin citizens
nv Amerikin descent, wood say that it's q
question that requires the heftiest states
IN ~ ha a fa1
then altogether on the score of onfitnis, or
1t mite be given to some and withheld from
Others, or it mite be given to all on the skore |
nv ekalfy ontowiCh our government is built |
oritmite be left to the States. Ezan original
States rites man, and consekentlyin perfek
harmony with the Democrisy ali my life,
ceptin in some trifin questions wich are
fOrtinitly settled, / can't say that I hey
clearly made up my mind on this question.
/ incline, however, to the belief that it amt
worth while to discuss lit seems to me
that this question, tho it wuz wonst vital, is |
now clearly dead ishoo.
"Wat is yoor views on the question Nv
general aInnesty2p
''Cleerly that the war settled all questions,
this inelooded. Wat wuz the coz NV dis |
poot between the two seckshuns? A differ
ence, nv opinyun. Is the war over and |
until the differences Nv opinyun wuz set /
tied : Certainly not. Then why continyoo l
the aeerbity engendered by q difference nv |
opinyun when that difference is recOnciled? |
Let the conkerer and the conkered, or rath-
er the stronger and the weaker party, meet |
on a common level, and go to church arm |
In arm, ez did with Henry A. Wise NV Viz.
giny only the last Sunday but one. The |
Amnesty question consider, after givin |
the subject matoor confederation, DEAD |
IsHoo.n
May I ask yoor views on the Go us) all 4
important question nv payin the bonds with
greenbaeks ~
" Certainly; / regret, however, that I am
pnabie to give 700 ez full and explicit an, |
ansef 70 this query ez TO the others. The
fact Is, my deer sir, / hev never paid any at /
tenshun watever TO the subjick Nv finance, /
and am net competent to give a opinion /
4hereupon. pledge myself however, TO /
study the intrikit question diligently, 80 /
that in case am nominated aud elected, / /
kin resentment q policy that viii be en- |
tlrely satisfactory to the people. shell hev 1
TO assertAne the different kinds nv bonds 1
now held agin the government, the dates NV
their ishoos, and the stipulRshens ez TO 4
payin-nx en-, From my present stanpoint, /
and with my limited knowledge nv the sub /
jeck, am inclined to hold the opinion that |
this question, tho onct nv Importance, is |
now actelly dead isho0.D
We eenyerst some time upon other topics, !
ana must say that 1 Wuz charmed with j
the sirateiorerd honesty NV his replies. He !
ASHFORD ne that he Wuz A Democrat and /
aIluz he'd bin. He had been estraneed from |
the party on some minor questions wich he'd /
bin happily settled, and upon looking the /
eubjeck al over he co0dent Ind one slaele /
difference atWeen EN-. All the questfons /
wich divided en- Wuz ded ish0ns, and he
coed now shake hands corjelly with EN-.
He wa rot q partisan, In proof Of witch he /
clted me e his Eoolins on the impeachment
While be he'd alluz ben Democrat and
cherAshea the principles nv the party as the /
especial apple Of his eye he he'd not, Il is
true. ailuz actid with It. His first vote was
aRin taeks0ns his second and third for
Harrison. He organized the Liberty partv
movement, and voted in 1913 aein Cas-. He
also Tus elected 70 the SENT brthe Free
bollerA Esd oppose D0aglas5' Kansas Sc.
braska s1eem. and IN 1855 was elected
eogerapl q Ohio By the party uich hpz
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eoniesasa sAa. D. qliEiuated GfeenhSx F4fz
Nash bank iA man, and he'd Do
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