Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1871-10-26

committee of FIVE on Communicate,
memoria etc, sas adopted.
The several committees We're anoo;,..,
and the Convention adjourned npt;l -
day. - A. II
The peSanent President, A.yR,r.
sisr, uponsbeing conducted 10 the Chi.
said, in substance, that he was place, -
peculiar position, and the duties a.
volving were onerous, position which
Edward Everett had once said vas No, >,
be sought after or declined. The Com
vention meeting in South Carolina ~.
delegation of which he was a memher
had agreed to decline any positions for
reasons perfectly satisfactory to them.
selves, andit was their intention to al.
vocate others claims, but dare he, coul,
he refuse where duty called and in tina,
place he hoped always to be found. Mr.
Eansier said, in effect, that he had "a.
vOlved in his mind the call for the Meet,
ing when first made by Mr.. Myers q,
Baltimore, and the bearing a particular
race, which was component part of tina
people, would have on affairs in pee,;,,
in convention, numbering as they did
over four millions of people and as they
lacked education, thrown upon the body
polite as it were leper, why not come
together and devise means that vould
best serve the public interest and them.
selves, means by which the negro may bs
elevated and brought up to a prcper
standard in every particular.
Mr..Hausier said the impression had gono
abroad, and Democratic papers and gus;
Republican papers of doubtful reputation.
had and will seek to make capital out Of
it, but by your action you can disabuss
the American people OF this idea, that
would impress upon the public mind an
thing detrimental to the general good.
lie advised calmness in delibemtion,
and stated that much importance woua
be attached to them; an importance ba
said of which some little dream. and j,
this connection he felt it his duty to reier
to local chickering's, and TO state that they
We're caused hy men who wanted Office
etc.
Mr.. Elliot, Of South Carolina rose 10 n
question of privilege, stating tina. repor,s
had been circulated by irresponsible Der.
SONS calculated to injure him rs private
citizen and rs public servant. The m.
NOR, he said, had been indus;riously eir.
culated in the Convention that he WIS on.
posed to the Federal administration
Government i'll this country, AMI for tina,
reason there SHOULD not be extended 10
him that consideration that WIS dua from
one gentleman to another. lie thought il
unnecessary to call upon any Of bis col.
| aGues for II vindicat.on Of h course He
had always stood 10y the Republican party
and the Government. and not for m,livih.
al gain, but because he beloved in the
principles of that party. He was no. tied
to any faction or individual. 1t had been
alleged that he WAS an anti Grant man
He wished to brand the f,lsehood as il
should he branded. He desired to call the
attention of all to the fac; that no one with
equal attainments had endeevored to do
more than he had done to sustain tho al
ministration. 1T was not a month Sinc,,
he said, that he had raised his voice III the
hall across the way in support OF the adj
Minstration, and endorsing the same, and
he was i'll person the bearer of that endor'-
ment to the President. He Therefore threw
back to the irresponsible party this base
falsehood; to this party vino was neither
hot nor cold.