Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-03-26
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The Buffalo Commercial is an emin-
emily conservative journal of whig and
antecedents, which has some
times given qhslifiedsu to Repub-
lican candidates, but oftener opposed |
them. We invite the earnest attention !
Of genuine Conservatives to the follow |
ing letter:
Correspondence Buffalo Commercial Advertiser
NEW ORLEANS, La, Feb. %, 1868.
Yesterday was the Birthday of WASH |
ingten, and the peculiar manner in which
it was observed here has suggested the
thought of writing you this letter. In
the first place, the day was celebrated in
an enthusiastic manner by the Army of
the United States. A review of all the
troops took place, under the direction of
Gen. Hancock. AT IL o'clock 100 guns
were fired from the foot OF that magnifi-
cent boulevard, Canal-st., and the smoke
of gunpowder, most effective and
healthy perfume in this latitude, rolled
the entire length of che street, remind
ing all of the presence OF Power among
them. In the evening splendid BAN
quet was spread at Lyceum Hall, but
your humbleservant, not being an officer,
could not attend.
In the second place, the day was cele-
brsted by gathering of the Republicans
OF the city at the Mechanics Institute
The Republican party, In this and ali
other Southern States, consists of mass
of people made up i'm the proportion of
about fifteen freedmen to one white man.
Lsst night about s, 600 members of the
party assembled at the Institute, made
famous by the riot of July 80, 1866. /
was present, both at that time and last
| evening. Never have I seen a moro
striking illustration of thconward march
OF public opinion. On the Friday even
ing previous to July 80, 1866, there was a
meeting in every way similar to that
which occurred last night. At that time
the excitement in the city outside of the
/ meeting was most intense. The old
! secesh elements were in full authority.
Monroe WAS Lord Mayor, and his sateI-
/ lites were around him, determined to
take measures to prevent the meeting of
the Convention on the following week
! Their work eliminated in the riot whose
scenes have become historical. But for
! the presence of portion of the United
! States army in New Orleans. the night
/ of July 30, 1885, would have become as
/ immortal AZ the massacre of st. Bsrthol-
omew.
/ was in the city, and know whereof
speak. A regiment of cavalry, follow
ed by artillery galloped into Canal-st.
from the barracks, and in twenty min
utes the great boulevard was utterly de-
serted, save by the sentinels stationed at
each corner, and the cannon planted to
rake the side streets. Last night the
same people assembled at the same place
! TO ratify the work of similar Conven-
tion which has been in session here two
months making the organic law of the
hA ptt Il 4 a
even to smell the rat. Verify the world
moves. i do not know where Menroe
and his satellites have gone.
l wish to state few things that oc-
CURED last night. Last week there was
q meeting of the unwashed "Democra-
cy" at the st. Charles Theater. This
meeting was attended by about 1900
CONSERVATIVES" whose object was to
defeat the proposed adoption of the new
Constitution of Louisiana. Among the
speakers was that inimitable firebrand
and paper duclist, the Hen" f. NJ
Yerger of Jackson, Miss. since appoint.
4 ed delegate for the State at large TO the
4 Northern Democratic Convention to be
held in New York City. This fellow
who, had he one-tenth Of the talent o.
w. c. Yancey, would doubtless step into
his shoes in "precipitating" the next Sc
cession-this fellow, among other re
marks extrsvagantly applauded by hi
auditory, declared his purpose to build Z
pyramid of bones, cemented by blood
as broad at the foundation, and as higl
as those of Egypt, rather than be pu
under the heels he once owned. Las
night the President of a meeting com
| posed of 5000 people replied tothis poin
of Yerger by stating that "bones" an
/ "blood" he did not wish to talk about
! but il pyramid were to be built of sucl
materials, the Union people of the Uni
ted States would thke care to have tn
. selection of the bOnesa and blood of whicl
1t should be composed.
l wish might impress upon the.peo
pie of the North the fact that, il th
/ democratic party" becomes successful
next year, another war, far more blood
| than that through which the countr
has passed, will be the inevitable and a
| most immediate result. Emboidened b
f the traitoreus position of Andy johnson
the press South 10 more rapidly driftin
! into the same defiant attitude and hypC
: critical fondness for the "old Constiiu
: tion" that was assumed before the wal
D "Planters" here are keeping, with relig
Q Gus care, lists of their former slaves, an
: as sure as the Democratic party succeed
: 10 power, just so sure these slaves will
: hunted down aud captured. Your De,.
' ocratic party dossn't mean this, {
r course but the South means far NOR
o than that. 1t will renew the struggl
z for 'sindependence" at the frst dawn I
3 q chance of success. iif# 3aatt
:, m. Ards the n,isft of b0of when 1,