The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-09-13
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PROCEssIANA.

One negro club last night was adorned
3with oil-cloth capes. We suppose they were
doomed in view of the pluvious state of the
atmosphere when the procession began.
: There were but three brass bands in the
whole turnout the balance of the music being
! fife and drum.
: Some of the clubs 'toted" spades. A good
Eidea this, and thing which colored men
*ishould "tote" more than they have of late
years.
One transparency carried by negro club
fbore the inscription, "We Want the Carpet
sbaggers." Thisis mistske-the carpet-bag-
/: gers want them.
=. Many transparencies bore the words, In
Union there is Strength" If by "Union" the
RAIDS mean the procession, there was certain
ly strength enough.
The identical one-legged veteran who has at
the North so often wept copiously at the idea
]; I, of Seymours nomination, was out in the pro-
cession. He was supported by two othes vots
They ala Aet weep visibiy.
One transparency bore the words, sold
John Brown" and on the reverse. cred
Hot" Just so-in our opinion old John
Brown is red hot about this time.
: One negro marshal, in his glorious enthusi-
asm, shouted in honor Of the Colfax Guards:
"Hurrah for the Coal-black Guards" aCoal
, black " isl good and highly appropriate.
One club got off delicate piece of irony
by inscribing on transparency, Grant and
Colfax, and beneath, "Truth and Honesty"
= This satire on themselves should be stopped
by the Radical leaders.
AS aspecimen of the animus of the particle
pants in the parade, and of the exalted ideas
of virtue used by them, many clubs shouted,
"Hurrah for Butler, who stole the silver
spoons"
' A lot of black "Boys in Blue" were out.
They looked black and blue, very.
p. A striking feature in the turn out was the
plentiful scarcity of national colors. In view
of the intense and ardent protestations of
undying devotion TO the said colors so often
made by the Radical Republican Revolution
airy party, we are constrained to ask, with the
immortal Artemus, "Why is this thus ?"
As the procession passed the corner of st.
Charles and Canal Streets gentleman in the
crowd asked of one of the colored marshals
what his name was. "Jim jackson, sab" said
the darby, proudly Strengthening himself in
his saddle. slim Jackson?" said the by-
stander, sd Jim jackson? why knew you when |
You were in the Parish Prison" The effect of |
this remark was electrical-the crowd burst |
into peals of laughter, joined in by the whole
club with hearty zest, whose officer was thus |
saluted, while the victim, borne off by the
procession, could only turn around and look
at his tormentor
The Knights was very appropriate name
for the twilight colored caricatures of horse
men who last evening, unillumed by torches.
made the streets of our city assume funereal
blackness.
Many were the umbrellas, principally cot
ton, which were last night carried in the pro-
cession.
One enthusiastic colored voter last NIGHT /
actually had the temerity 10 shout "three
cheers for peace" We are happy, for the
honor of the Radical party, to be able to say
hat this un-Republican and Democratic senti-
ment was at once rebuked by the utter re-
usal of any man TO respond to the shout.