New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-08-15
The Irish RRnuhIicans.

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At called meeting of the Phil Sheridan
irish Republican Club, held at the Ne
| chanics' Institute, on Monday evening
August IA, 1871, President P. Creagh in the
chair, the following resolutions were
| adopted:
WHEREAS, 1t is claimed by the enemies
| of the principles of repubGcanism that the
| recent occurrences, connected with the as
| semblng of the State Convention of the
| Republican party, are indicative of a per
| manent rupture inland an impending
| downfall of, our party; and
Whereas, The only foundation for such
| assumptions is the fact that the late State
| Central Executive Committee, large num-
Der of whom were ambitious, unprincipled
and INSCRIPTIONS political Adventures, who
| had long since forfeited the confidence and
| lost the support of the people, and who
| have been denounced in nearly every Re-
| publican organization throughout the city
| and State, did. by their unwarranted and
| tyrannical abuse of the powers delegated to
| them by the law, arrogate to themselves
| the right to exclude from the building ap-
| pointed by one of their number as the place
| of holding the convention, not only the rep
| resentatives of the Republican party, Only,
| fairly and triumphantly elected, but the
people themselves; and
Whereas, Such conduct, besides being
| fagrantIy in violation of our rights as free
men and Republicans, seriously jeopardizes
the commercial and industrial prosperity of
| our city and the fair fame of our State, and
deserves the denunciation of every free and
independent American citizen, both in the
ranks of the Republican party and in the
community at large; therefore be it
Resolved by the Phil Sheridan Irish Re
publican Club, That we recognize the con-
vention held at Turner Hall, in the city of
New Orleans, on the ninth and tenth of
August, 1871, as the only body duly elected
by the people, and their acts as the only
expression of the will of the Republican
party of this State.
Resolved, That we do denounce and repu-
date the transactions of the irresponsible
BODY of men assembled at the Customhouse,
styling themselves delegates of the Repub-
lican party, and their pow-wow q conven-
ton, as acts to which no true Republican
gives either his sanction or approval.
ResolUed, That we denounce the course of
the handful of political Migrants who have
waxed fat at the expense of the people,
while holding offices under the general COY
eminent, as rewards for their lip service to
the Republican party, in using the patron
age of their Offices for their personal adj
vancement, and for the sitting of the popu-
lar voice, and we demand the removal of
every one of them, from collector to gauger,
from marshal to mail carrier, who shall be
proved to have been aiders or abettors in
the recent disgraceful attempt to prevent
free and peaceable assembly of the people
of this State-a constitutional right guaran-
teed to US by every principle Of American
liberty. ....,.. I.....-.
RESOLVED, That Henry C. Warmoth has
proved himself worthy of the confidence re-
posed in him, and the great trusts COM
mitted to his charge; that we recognize in
him the able leader under whose banner we
are sure to march to victory in 1879, the
champion in whose keeping our liberties are
cheerfully committed, with the full assur-
ance of their being saeredly guarded; and
Resolced, That the action of the City
Council of New Orleans in removing from
Office those unfaithful servants of the peo-
pie, the Superintendent of Streets and the
the Recorders of the Second and Fifth Dis
tricts, deserves the thanks and commenda-
ton of all honest and law-abiding citizens,
and all true-hearted Republicans.
Resolved, That the secretary be instrueted
to cause these resolutions to be published
in the New Orleans REPUBLICAN and in the
New Orleans Losisionian.
''s. p. CREAGH, President.
JOSEPH p. MURPHY, Recording Secretary.
M. HouLrHAs, Corresponding Secretary.