New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-08-02
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
| DEMOCRATIC SPLURGE IN ALGIERs-A Large
Small Manifestation. political ergani-
cation in Algiers styling itself the Democ-
racy of the parish, and which numbers in
its ranks members of all former antago-
nisms united by a common bond of seces-
sion sentiment, held saturnalia on
Wednesday evening".
The affair was strongly suggestive of the
| play of Hamlet with the part of Hamlet
omitted, for the virtuous Democracy of
Louisiana, whose cardinal doctrine up to
the present has been opposition to colored
suffrage, is now inviting the colored voters
TO Join in opposition to themselves-to assist
in deprivinglhimself of the protecting ballot
which the Congress of the United States
has given him for his safety.
The performance took place in front of
the opelousas Railroad depot. Upon a
platform made by the junction of several
wood cars there were displayed a couple of
dozen Of transparencies, and the usual par
apnernalia to be seen at secession demon.
STATIONS, Many of the transparency bear
ers were boys whose time to vote will not
ome for several years yet
Some time about eight o'clock the meeting
was called to order, and a president and
number of vicepresidents appointed, and
then the performance commenced.
The first speaker was Mr.. George W. Race,
well remembered as an ardent Wing and
opponent of Democracy in other days. This
gentlemen spoke at some length, but very
little to the purpose he had in view. He
regretted the old time when the "people"
of the South were all free forgetting that a
large portion Of the people" were in
slavery at the very time he spoke of. He
dealt in mild anathemas upon certain cit
liens whom he stigmatized as carpet-bag>
gers He made an original remark, that
the Democrats of the South were the only
friends the colored man had. He uttered
the somewhat ambiguous assertion that
there was only one class of scoundrels
in this section who would deceive the ne
gro; he did not inform his audience what
course would be pursued by the other
classes. He spoke of other sections of the
common country with all that utter hatred
patriotism, remarking that he chad the
misfortune to be born in the North, which
was capital country to emigrate from.r
This was received with shouts of applause
by his auditors, who seemed not to perceive
how pitiful thing it is for a man to vilify
his native land. In the course of his
speech he tried to say something concilia-
tory to the few colored men who were
among his hearers, but the old habit of de-
crying them was too strong, and he failed sig
nally. As he asserted that to the Democrats
alone could the colored man look for work
and, support he stood almost Immediately
in front of large transparency fixed upon
the platform showing forth the words,
"0pelousas railroad, good for 500 votes"
How suggestive this transparency was of the
hollowness of Democratic friendship for col
ored men, for who in Algiers does not know
that colored men were discharged by scores
from the railroad and dry dock for daring
at the last election to vote as conscience and
Judgment Dictated,
The next speaker was Senator A. B. Ba-
con. His speech had one merit. 1t was
short, but like all his speeches was
pregnant with inanity. In fact, the
only point in his address was lit.
tie flight of imagination in the shape of
mendacious personality. This is probably
the only attempt at poetry the orator ever
made. for as a rule he is remarkably prosy.
A combination of ore r0tltndd and feebleness,
his speech was irresistably suggestive of the
logic in DR.. Johnson's celebrated quartrain:
eff man who turnips cries
Cry not when his father dies,
his sign that he would rather
Have turnip than his father.p
Next followed Anthony Sambola. This
gentleman made the usual kind of talk
such as is repeated in the rebel papers
ad nGuseen,, namely, the protecting
kindness Of the white man to the col.
ored man in the good old times of slavery.
How the planter had clothed the negro,
fed him, sheltered him, nursed him in sick
ness, and all that sort of thing. The effect
of this oratorical fight was much marred
by colored man in the crowd exclaiming:
''Yes, and whaled him like h-ll.p
Then followed Mr.. Zacharie, of New Or
leans. This speaker told an edifying anec-
dote, the point of which was that the col
ored man could prosper only by
voting for the party whose known
object is to deprive him of the
franchise. He also made slight addition
to the geographical knowledge of the day in
speaking of the " State of Washington"
Now appeared upon the stage the star of
the evening, Mr.. Sherburne, whose resi-
dence in Algiers is certainly brief enough to
entitle him to the appellation he so freely
bestows on others" carpet. Dagger" He
commenced by saying that he had come to
the people Of Algiers stranger, and they
took him in, etc. He evinced knowledge
of biography not generally attainable
in speaking of that Father of his
country, George s'W.n Washington, who in
his Farewell Address delivered to the SEN
sten foretold the rise of party
which for its own nefarious ends would
attempt to observer the country, etc. I'm