New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-08-11

cheering Let us act in this convention as
becomes delegates of the. people. Let us
calmly and dispassionately stand by our
own dignity and our own banner, and
adopt such measures as Will be Tor lne
benefit of the Republican party lap
plause.l Allow no affection TOT any man 70
change your course. Allow no individual
influence to bias you. 1t is no contest OF
mine. The attempt to ring into TINS con-
troversy the question who shall be Governor
in 1872 is simply an attempt to. destroy the
unity and harmony of the Republican party.
1t is too long to look forward to- No man mas
the right to be a candidate to-day Tor
any office to be filed in 1872, and no man
should be candidate, anyhow. unless
the people say he must be. Applause.
thank YOU for your attention and cordially
only want to say here to-day we have car
ried the Republican party through so tar,
and we will carry it through In the future.
fCheers.l If these gentlemen want to get
up another party. white party or al RICK
party, let them get it up. Ihere are enough
intelligent white men In the country, ana
them ont of the politics of the country
The country belongs to the people. Ii Is
their Dropertv and they will controi IT,
TLoud and long continued cheering.J
State Senator Pinehback being vociferous-
" called for. rose and said: Mr.. President
and fellow-citizens, this reception on your
part has indeed lifted from me load.
never had such feelings as l had to-day
but once before That was when heard the
GUNS fred here in honor of the secession OF
the State of South Carolina. | had on That
day feelings which were indescrlbable. The
same feelings seemed to come over ME to-
dav. when | got into that CustomhOuse and
filed through line of United States mar
shals, and when REACHED the stairs ana
found there the guns and bayonets OF fed
eral soldiers. / say, the most awful feel
had in the world were mine at
the time when | felt that | had
been one of those who had made it possible
for those federal soldiers to be there at that
time: for it must not be lost sight OF that
we are part Of the people who saved tins
country, and made it what it Is to-day. Is
it possible that the loyal citizens of Louisi-
ana should be put down by the government
we have saved! IF this be SO, the sooner
this republic is torn to pieces, and
monarchy is built upon the ruins, the better
GApplsuse We must cease to be American
citizens if we can submit to this. When we
look at the reason why these troops and
marshals are there, it takes a. still more
INDUSTRIOUS shape. They are there to put
down the legally constituted representa-
tives of the people in convention
assembled to consider the interests OF the
people. Was anything OF this kind ever
heard of before in a country claiming to be
a free country? [Cheers.l Here am l a
delegate. unanimously elected from my
ward. for after it was known had re-
ceived two hundred and twenty-one ma
iority over nay competitor he, feeling he had
been squarely defeated, moved to make my
election unanimous. and it was made so.
Yet when / made application at that Gus
tomhouse door for admission l was told:
avou can not come in here" Who ever
heard of such thing as closing the halls of
convention in order that they could tix
everything up, just as they wanted
before they. let in d the delegates
That is what they meant by this
caucus daughter and cheersl. They
wanted to have the convention packed by
their friends, so that nobody else would
have word to say. OF course they were
not ready, because we came down there a
little too strong for them. Renewed
laughter and applause1. The facts OF the
case will prove to the people of this State
that in every parish where they had not the
samblance of a chance of electing delegates
they resopted to the most extraordinary
| courses to get show of contestants to
mack the convention. You citizens OF New
Orleans know the course they took in the
| Third Ward On the day of election nine
tenths of the voters did not know where
the polls had been located. What | am
telling you is no mythical story; the testi-
mony you have seen with your own eyes.
One would have thought that modesty
| itself would have prevented the man who
did it from taking such a..cOurse, but 1t
| seems he has lost all modesty. Whom the
gods would destroy they first make mad" L
am satisfied they have made these men
raving mad-they can not have thlmble-
| full of sense left IT they had let things go
I'M 7 Il ,l,t rlN1avr
! would have polled a respectable vote. l,
myself. thought they would have carried
the ward but no sooner did the people see
the lodges and shifts they resorted TO, than
| they repuliated them, held meetings OF
their own made speeches, and passed reso-
buttons condemning them.
One of the confidential friends OF these
people has told me- and said might use it
in the convention if pleased. that they had
nine or ten boys voting the Dunn ticket in
the Third Ward. | know lust who these
boys are, and it is positive tact. They
said they voted so often that they got tired.
and went home. TLaughter.l In this way
it was easy to run up a majority. especially
when they did their own counting. Ia
voice: They are counted out now.l laugh
teri Aye, and they will stay out. Loud
applause.I
General H. j. Campbell being next called
| upon, said:
As l understand the committee on Gre
dentials will be ready in a few minutes, |
| will make no speech, but simply point out
one fact, and ask your conclusion upon it.
| Here are two conventions, one surrounded
| by bavonets and United States marshals,
| and with its hall and doors closed; the
| other with no bayonets or marshals. and no
| closed doors, but meeting in the good old
| American way, with open doors and free
| speech. | say when this fact goes before
| the people of Louisiana, they will be able
| to form a very fair opinion as to which
| convention represents the Republican party.
| [Applause, with three cheers for the united
| Republican party of Louisiana, which were
| heartily responded to. General Campbell
| closed his address,
Judge Fl. c. Dibble, in response to re-
peated calls, rose and said:
| / have but a moments time to speak to
you and have but little to say. feel
very deeply, very earnestly, this hour, for
| | believe that the events we have wit
| messed to-day are of the utmost import
ance, not only to the Republican party OF
Louisiana but to the Republican party of
the United States, and to the perpetuation
of republican institutions. What we have
| seen to-day the American people will see,
| and what we feel they will feel, and as we
say they will say, throughout the length
| and the breadth of this land. This is a
momentous hour, and whether we sue
! coed or fail, this hour determines
| whether the people of this country shall
rule, or whether they shall be ground down
under the heel of tyranny. [Cheers:l If the
people, when they assemble in convention,
are to be prevented from expressing their
country is failure and liberty is dead
| Put thank Cod that dav has NOT arrived