Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-09-08
Rooms DEMOCRATIC STATE CENTRALLY
COMMITTEE, New ORLEANS,
Aupust 18th. 1870.

COMMITTEE, New ORLEANS,
August 18th, 1901
Mr.. Edmund Bro,rn, Ne,o Orleans:
SIR: have to acknowledge the receipt of your
letter of the 18th inst, propounding the follow
ing questions, viz:
tee of Louisiana admit colored members of DEM
ocratic principles to seats in its body?
O. Will the Democratic party of Louisiana ad-
init colored delegates of Democratic principles
from the parishes to seats in the Democratic
Convention to be held in this city, in September
next?
8. Is the Democratic party of Louisiana willing
to admit colored citizens of Democratic faith,
honest and capable, to participation in public
offices
SO far as the action and authority of this Com
mittee is concerned, am instructed to reply to
all of these interrogatories in the Affirmative.
Your attention is called to the address recently
issued by this Committee. in which these con-
cusions are clearly and fully expressed.
Under the Constitution of laws all men are
placed on common footing, entitled to aspire
to the highest honors and are invested with the
same responsibilities.
The Democratic party has ever been distin-
guished as the party of the Constitution.
The Committee avail themselves of this occa-
sion to reaffirm their deep sense of the natural
sympathy and identity of interest existing be-
| tween the white and colored people of the State,
| and hold that neither the one nor the other is
responsible for the antagonism of races, sought
| to be inaugurated but that the sole responsible
ity Of this odious attempt belongs to the political
adventurers who have courted the colored men
only to use and betray him.
| The Democratic party does not seek to elevate
| or depress one class at the expense of another,
| or to delude the colored man with specious pro-
misses, shows and parades, but to consider them
| all integral part of the commonwealth, entitled
| to all the benefits and privileges of its laws.
What the State now most needs is the expul-
sion from Office of the vampires who are sucking
| the blood Of the colored as well as the white
man to have just laws, justly administered, an
economical administration of the whole govern
ment Then Louisiana will resume her former
proud, peaceful and prosperous condition.
The Committee are ready to aid and cooperate
with all who seek to effect this happy result.
| L. II. HATCH,
President of the Democratic State
Central Committee.
ooLoRED DEMOCRATIC MEETING IN BALTIMORE
The Baltimore newspapers of Wednesday, tile
31st ultimo contain full report of g Mass
Meeting of Coored Democrats" The S,u
(neutral paper) commences its report as follows
J "A mass meeting of colored Democrats were
held last night, under the auspices of the Coloret
!, Democratic Association, of which Jonathan
r Waters is President, in Zion Church, corner o
} Hanover and Montgomery streets, which wal
r comfortably filed about one-half of those pres
; ent, however, being white persons. An organi
! cation was effected by the election of tn,
t | following officers President, Jonathan Waters
4 Vice Presidents, Isaac Steward and Thoma
Sorrell Secretaries, N. Rowland and William
8 Waters
The meeting was held in the interest Of Hon
h Thomas Swami, the present Democratic membe
o of Congress-, from Baltimore, and the larg
| number of white persons Who were present wer
. his ardent supporters. The speakers on til
s occasion were the President of the meeting
+ Jonathan Waters, Mr.. Young and William
Waters, all colored men. In the course of hi
I. speech, the first named complained that on on
IS occasion he had conversed with a prominen
l. Republican relative to the value of the Fifteent
/, Amendment. He (Mr. Waters) wished to kno
o if the Fifteenth Amendment did not give hiI
10 the privilege of riding in the cars with whit
,r people, and visit theatres and dine at the hoe
The Republican gave him a rude reply. Blu
d continued Jonathan, when l called upon Nj
Swami, the most honorable man in Maryland
Democrat soul and body, he invited me into h
Il, parlor and conversed with me like gentleman
y as he is. l brought up the subject of colore
10 persons riding in the cars, when Mr.. Swan
~ ~ replied that he would ride in the same car wit
them, and if he had his say in the matter
would tear the sign boards from off the ca
no allotted to colored persons.
o. Upon the adjournment of the meeting, u
as President said that he did not want to see 81
OF other man elected to Congress in the Third Di
st trict but Thomas Swami, which was received wi
OF loud applause. The speakers were frequent
or applauded throughout, the meeting adjournil
with cheers for Swami.