New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-15
GERMAN MASS MEETING.
Second District Aroused.

An enthusiastic meeting of German Re-
publican citizens took place last night at the
large hall on Derbigny street, between Gus
tomhouse and Bienville streets. The hall
was crowded to it's utmost capacity, princi
pally by Germans, although there wero citi-
zens of other nationaities present The
meeting was enlivened by the splendid
music of the .Nord-Deutsche Musk Gesels-
haft"
The meeting was called to order, and the
following gentlemen named as officers:
President-Dr. Wenz.
Vice Presidcnts-G. Merz, II. Weber, N.
Ucber. Captain Schoepcker, Captain Bart
never, f. Mausbach. Phi. Shultz, l.. Lo-
REM, II. Clarence, +. TObelman, G. Dinker,
s. Schmidt.
Sccretaries-William Frommcyer, N.
Wagner.
The first speaker was Mr.. NJ. Kernberger,
who made spirited address in the German
language The speaker reminded his Ger
man fellow-citzens present of their long
state of political depression in the South,
when they were considered by the elite who
then ruled the South, as mere voting ma
chimes. Under party of progress and
equal rights, they would share in just ratio
all the benefits, political, industrial and
commercial that now must arise from the
lust system that had been inaugurated and
would be kept up by the Republican
party.
Mr.. Kernberger was followed by Mayor
Flanders, who, with great clearncss and
force, defined our present political necessi
ties, particularly in pursuing a system of
| administration that, by strict economy,
would reduce taxation at the earliest possi-
| bic time.
Mr. +. Tobelmann followed Mayor Flan-
| ders in o German address. He COM
pared the person~e! and record OF the
several nominees of the opposing par
| ties. and congratulated his audience
| that the time was past when voters were to
! be kept away from the polls by terror of
| violence, and that the time had at length
| come when every man might vote accord
| inc to his political views and the dictates of
| his conscience, with none to modest or make
! him afraid.
| At the conclusion of Mr.. Tobelmanns ad
dress the band played with fine effect that
| grand music, Die Faderland."
| General j. II. Sypher was now introduced
and made a concise and telling speech,
that. like those of the other speakers, was
received with enthusiastic applause.
General Sypher commenced by abiding
to the probability that Republican prin-
| ciples of the true sort We're fast making
their way on the eastern side of the At
! lantic. and might soon become fixed there
| as firmly as they are secured in this portion
! of America Then, alluding to the remarks
| of MayOr Flanders, concerning the seven
teen millions of debt that must be met, and
which showed the necessity Of strict
economy in the administration, General Sy
pher remarked that the Mayor might have
added that this seventeen millions of debt
was Democratic legacy bequeathed to the
taxpayer to pay, as the consequence OF
years of misrule.
The South had the name of democracy
| before the war, but the name only. There
was really no element of democracy among
the Southern people at the period men
toned, for the great feature of democracy
was wanting. and the State government was
administered by a select few. What rights
| had the the poor man in this southern part
| of the broad land before the war I He was
used, perhaps, to vote, for the purpose Of
putting other men in office. but nothing
else. The offices were, in some sort, heredi-
tary. and the scions OF the slave
holding aristocracy were put into Office
as soon as of age; with little or no
| fitness, their only merit being that they be-
longed to the elite Of the land. General
Sypher spoke of the present condition of the
South fertile, favored by nature, yet not
half cultivated. We want mer of the right
stamp to come among us to cultivate the
now Improbable soil, and the more We have
of Industrious, patient, thrifty, ingenious
toil-enduring Germans, the better We want
capital as well as labor; we must induce
people to come who have both; must induce
them to come by the attraction of good
laws rightly administered. General Sypher
then spoke Of the stigma formerly weighing
down the Republican party, now happily re-
moved by the Democrats themselves, in ad-
mitting colored men into their political con-
ventiOns. What the Republican party has
from the beginning, done for the colored
man from principle, the Democrat is now
doing from interest. And what is that in
terest To get his vote !!
After General Sypher, the meeting was
addressed by General II. j. Campbell, and
Messrs. Kramer, blanchard, Lewis, Masicot,
and others.
At the close of the meeting appropriate
resolutions were passed, expressing the de-
termination of the voters present to support.
with might and main, the nominations of
the Republican party at the coming election.
The meeting adjourned at a late hour.