Evening star., 1870-02-09

perheads saw with CONSERVATION the unity Of
the Republicans, and they felt alarmed. lap-
p:ause The object was to oesah h;cb shs Dtn I'M
expected to get into power again. Ihey ltne
Republicans) had some bad men among me
party who were sowing the SEEDS Oh discoru,
but they were sowing the wind to reap the whirl-
wind III our city papers do not follow IN the right
way, drop them and let them 60; tn y would
soon lind out which the strong party was. He
rehearsed the acts of the party since 1860, and
said il had liberated from abject slavery 5000 600
of the black race; gave them schools, chur ches,
franchise, the right of the jury box civil rights,
ss 1ns
John F. Cook ever dsgraced his Office?
Voices" No noP'l Had Carter Stewart ever
disgrased his office? Voices" No! noi''l
graced his Office? tVoices-" No! no?'1 Are
you going to destroy this party that has given
the coloTed man so much lCries of :" No!
no!''1 The party was one Of progress, and it
had not yet halt accomplished its mission. He
closed by saying that 1t would not be safe to
lrust their rights with their bitter enemies.
There was but two parties in this country-there
was no middle ground.
Alderman W. II. Chase made remarks en-
dorsing what had been said. The party had
which still exists in the public schools shoul
be abolished, and his children be mixed with the
colored ones and educated with them.
DR.. Purvis said that Mr. Chase had struck the
keynote uFon the success of which the Repub-
lican party depended perfect political, civil and
social equality of the races.
The resolutions were then adopted.
Prof. A. NJ Green was invited to make m,
remarks, and he proceed to pitch into the pape
right and left, and more especially the RepaJii-
can, for clubbing him the Resolution Man."
He would, in turn, denOminate that paper the
periodical Republican" because of its politi-
cal somersaults. Mr.. Green was hard at the pa
pers, when Washington Ingram began another
disturbance, which called attention from the
speaker to the other side of the house.
Joseph Brooks called attention To the fact that
these persons who were disturbing this meeting
were those who had been deneuncing rows at
public meetings, and were members OF Club
No.2.
The disorder still increased, and for some tin
the meeting was broken up. and curses and bla =
phemous epithets were the order of the hour, ,uE-
I'll one of the distUrbers was knocked down, and
during the cOmmOtiOn a messenger was sent for
the police, who soon came in, and Ingram was
house.
Order was then partially restored, when H.
"A. Hall advanced to the center of the floor, and
stated that the row was raised by one drunken
man named Ingram, who had been taken into
custody, and another man named Julius Wal
lace, who was behaving in the same manner as
Ingram, and would have to be arrested also.
wallace here jumped up, and confronting Hall,
called him"a liar," and dared him outside the
hall to fight him. Major Hall appealed to the
crowd, and asked if he had any friends in the
room. fCries of '.Yes," "Yes, ,"'l and MANY
rushed mp to his assistance. Finally Wallace
was quieted, after calling Hall all the hard
names he could think of, and order was restored
again, when Wallace went out, saying as he
left that Hall was a nice man to represent them
in the City Councils, as he did nothing but loaf
around faro banks and gambling saloons.
After Wallace left the room Prof. Green fin
ished up his speech on the city press. intimatng
that the policy of these attacks on free speech
was to defeat the Republicans at the coming
election. He denounced an article which ap-
peared in this ''periOdcal newspaper" which
bore so heavily on the law of license on free
speech, and said that no paper or individual
could intimidate him from doing his duty fear
lessly by resolution or otherwise. He would tell
the gentlemen of the press that he (Green) had
the resolution" and nerve to meet them in
these attacks on the party.
st. CLAIR Burley, on behalf of "Club No. q"
OF which he was Secretary, desired to deny the
statement of Jos. Brooks that the members OF
Club No. 2 had come to break up their meeting
Not one OF their members had attempted to say
a thing.
Hiram Ball said he had been persuaded to
join Club No. .. but saw the error of mis- ways
and asked pardon of this club for having done
so. He had withdrawn from it. [Laughter.l
Mr.. Burley stated that his (Ball's) name had
been struck from the roll, also the name of
Sandy Diggs, they not being the kind of ma
terlal Club No. 2 wanted. AdiOurped