New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-08-12


bills providing for these appropriations,
and it would have been four times as large
had not been sustained by the Legisla-
ture. Mr.. Carter says | have created a big
debt Turn to the record OF the last ses-
sion of the Legislature. Look at the num-
Der of bills passed making large appropria-
tions of bonds and money for various pur-
| poses. Every one of them had George w.
Carriers vote or support. lApplause.] And
he got his quid pro qsto for his ser
| vices in every single case. Zap
| plause.l Does he remember the one
million four hundred thousand dol
lars intended to be given to the warehouse
| company! Or does he remember this grand
| levee scheme, fastened upon the people of
the State, taking millions out of the peoples
| pockets! Docs he remember these bills,
which were introduced either by him, the
| fugleman. or some other member of the
| ring composed largely OF Democrats, and
which they passed into effect over my vetol
| | am prepared to say and to prove that
| George w. Carter stood up, in the St.
| Charles Hotel, in the presence of the incor-
/ poratOrs OF the Louisiana Levee Company,
| and told then. he carried the House of Rep
resentatives IN his breecbes' pocket, and
| that unless they considered him and took
| him into the bill. and gave him part, the
| bill would not pass the Legislature. APP
| plause.l He said, too, that his influence
was worth more than the money the capital
lists intended to put into the company, and
| that he was not willing to take promise
| to paw, but he wanted the money down
| [Laughter and applause.l Don't let me
weary you, gentlemen of the convention
! and fellow-citizens, by talking any more on
| this subject. Cries of "go on 90 ahead !"
| and cheers.l When we consider that this
man was a Virginian by birth, and slave
holder; when we consider he has been the
advocate, from childhood of States rights,
| slavery and secession; when you remember
! that he has preached these principles
| from Virginia to Southwestern Texas
when you remember that he fought four
| years TO carry out these views, that he went
| in an apostle of Jesus Christ and came out
| drunkard, a liar and gambler; when we
| consider that he has been recreant and un-
| grateful to the very persons that have fed
| him for two years and half; when You
| consider that he has abandoned his family,
| and they live on the charity of their neigh
| bors and friends; when we consider all
| these things we can not expect him to be
anything else but political hummer and
| tillibuster. Loud and repeated cheers and
| laughter.] Give me little time and / will
| take up the balance of them. Renewed
! cheers
| [The Governor then took seat and
rested his injured foot for few minutes,
while the band played the "Rogue's marsh"
or something like it.
moth said: 1 was arraign& yesterday in
| the United States Circuit Courtroom, under
| the protection of United States Deputy
Marshals and three companies of United
States troops by another gentleman
| CHARLES w. Lowell.
! He charged that was unfaithful TO the
! Republican party, that my sins were sins of
| omission as well as of commission; that |
| had been elected by the colored people of
| this State and that had done nothing for
| their amelioration or benefit That gentle
man pretends to be the peculiar champion,
! the peculiar exponent, the peculiar friend
! of the black people of this State, and while
making these great pretensions he thinks by
attacking everybody else in the State to
| cover up his own recreancy to their inter
| ests and TO the interests.of the Republican
| party, and so pays his respects TO me.
| What has he done for the cOlOred people
of this State2 ['Nothing" and cheersl.
| What has Charles w. Lowell ever done for
anybody but Charles w. Lowell loud
| cheers1. He went to Caddo as Registrar of
| Voters under General Hancock, got himself
beaten for seat in the Legislature. came
down hare with his elbows out and his shoe
| strings united, and told the people he had
| been beaten by fraud, and he so worked
| upon the good feeling of the Legislature
that they admitted him to seat in the
| House of Representatives. He was a men,
Der of that House during the one hundred
and twenty days of the first session, during
| the sixty days of the second session and the
| sixty days of the third session. He was
member of the House OF Representatives
for two hundred and forty days, drawing
his salary of eight dollars a day. or
sixteen dollars as Speaker during half the
time, and if you will take up the
journal of the House yop will find he never
introduced a single bill that had for its OBJ
ect the amelioratiOn of the condition of any
man, colored or white; in this country. The
journals will show he never made a speech
or motion, or said word in favor of any
civil rights bill, school bill or any other bill
for the benefit of the black people, the white
people or anybody else. [Applause.] Did
| say anybody else2 | did not mean to Say
anybody else. He did indOrse and support
Ship Island Canal bill [laughterl, which was
to take all the public land of the United
States that they supposed to be lying
around loose in the suburbs of the city of
New Orleans. He was to have this great
franchise. His lungs were strong and his
voice was loud when he stood up to adyo-
cate this iniquitous measure, which say to-
day has done more to injure the Republican
party in the minds of the people of this city
and State than any other bill that was ever
passed. [Applause.] Ny sin of omission
that this gent charges me with was
thatI would not sign it. Applause |
vetoed his bill, notwithstanding that gen.
tleman connected with. the enterprise was
kind enough to offer me five hundred thou
sand dollars of their stock. He did not
think TO introduce any bills for the colored
people or the white people, but only such
bills as were for the benefit of Charles w.
Lowell. and vet he comes before the DeO-
pie, and every Saturday night in his club
room in the Third Ward strains his lungs
abusing me because | am not sound on the
negro question. He seems to be, as said
before, the peculiar champion of the black
people. He goes further than Dunn, or
Pinchback, or Mahony or anybody else
goes, but when it comes to something prac-
tical he is not there. [Cheers.] You would
think from his speeches he would not have
anything to do with a man not as black as
the ace ofspades, but when you go down to
the PostOffice what do you find Every
important Office filled by white men; every
emplOye except his porter and a few letter
carriers are white men. Applause He
has not cOlored man in his office that gets
over eighty dollars a month. Now | don't
object to his appointing white men to Office.
| am q white man, and have all the sympa-
thies of white man in favor of his race.
l believe am not without some prejudioes,
but | mean to make them apply to white
men or black men according to their vir-
tues and the good they can do in the
country without regard to race or color.
Cheers. But l do not like to- see q
white man get 80 enthusiastic on the
negro question in public, and, perhaps, i'll
some few instances in extreme privacy.
Laughter And yet when he comes be-
fore the world with his acts, he prefers
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