New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-06-27

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years. that he was not entitled to consider
himself citizen. The speaker then alluded
to his travels, in which he did not feel that
| he was crossing State lines, but that this
was all his country. In his allusion to poll
tics, the speaker went on to say that 1t is
absolutely necessary that every good and
loyal citizen should discuss, consider well
and deliberate upon all political issues
agitating the community which more or less
affect his interests; it was absolutely neces-
sary the good citizen should participate in
political discussion. He pronounced him
self firm believer in universal amnesty.
and in alluding to dsuualifcations, he said
many others of his party disagreed with
him in his views; that there was belief
that these should remain on the statute
books, not as an indemnity for the past, but
as security for the future. 1t must he
apparent in the looming up of new
issues that the Democratic party can no
| longer afford to make an issue on
negro suffrage, nor can the Republican
party maintain itself by reciting the
achievements of the past, glorious though
| they be. He was glad that the Democrats
had taken new departure, as it was calcu-
lated to work benefit, as they stood on the
same position as the Republicans with re-
| gard to the colored men and the laborers.
If they concerned themselves to make all
men, white and black, equally interested in
the material interests of the country, the
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his heartstrings, will go with that party
that encourages the labor he is the
| representative of. If we allow the
Democrats TO take an advance
of these new issues, an2 ;-scribe
upon their banners revenue reform anu
reduction of taxation, and holding TO a
strict accountability all public officers, mu-
nicipal and State, and if the Republicans
are found tagging, the laboring men, like
the white, representing the material inter
ests of the country, will cast their support
in favor of that party. In speaking hope
fully of the future Of the Republican party,
that they would not allow the Democratic
party to tackle them on these ques-
tions, saying that the Democratic
party had got into the same bed as the
Republican party, with this difference, that
the Republicans had fioated down the
stream with ease and pleasure, while the
Democrats had striven to go up stream
and had finally given that up, and are now
being carried down stream almost against
their will.
The Senator exhorted the people 10 be
true to themselves, TO work honestly in and
out of season, close up their ranks and bear
their banners proudly aloft, march for
ward to universal victory, and plant their
flag as their emblem of national supremacy
The speech of the Senator was vociferously
applauded, the speaker rousing the enthusi-
asm of the mass to the highest pitch AS
his remarks were concluded loud cheer
seemed to shake the building.
On the conclusion OF the speech of Sena-
tor Kellogg and after the wild and enthu-
siastic cheering had subsidized, Colonel s.
b. Packard rose and read the following
resolutions, which were unanimously
adopted the meeting giving its assent in an
uproarious 'yea:"
Resolred, That the national administra-
ton is entitled to the respect and entire
confidence of the Republican party, and we
recognize, fully, the fact that it has been
faithful, honest and economical in the col
lection of the public revenues, and in the
expenses of the government; it has greatly
reduced taxation, thus tightening the bur
den upon labor; it has liquidated the ma
| tional debt to an extent unparalleled in
history, and in the management Of our
foreign relations, especially in the settle
ment of our differences with Great Britain,
| thereby cementing and perpetuating the
| friendship of the two countries upon terms
| creditable to both, it has achieved lasting
| honor, and entitled itself to the graft
| tude of the entire community; it has
| secured forever the rights of citizen
| ship, with all its immunities, to the
! colored race, and afforded them pro-
| lection by a strict enforcement OF the law.
| The head of an administration thus dis
| tinguished by services and craftsmanship
is Justly entitled to be regarded as a wise
and conscientious civil magistrate, while
| his uniform Difference to public sentiment
! proves him to be one whom the country may
| trust fully in the future, fs in the past.
We do therefore fully acknowledge our un
| bounded satisfaction in the manifest popu-
| lar desire throughout the entire Union for
the denomination of Ulysses S. Grant.
| Resoiccd, That we applaud the course of
| Senator William p. Kellogg, as fully con-
sonant with the patriotic spirit of the ma
tional administration, in reference to public
| affairs, and as solicitOus at all times Tor the
| genuine commercial interests of Louisiana
| and the South, as exhibited in his success
| full efforts to promote maritime and internal
| enterprises that promise the development
| of vast resources, the attraction of large
| immigration, and all attendant advantages;
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| deavors in the enactment of laws which
guarantee the integrity of elections and the
| defense and protection of the loyal citizen
| in the exercise of his constitutional and in
| alienable rights by the strong arm of the
| federal government, without distinction of
race or nationality.
Hon. j. K. G. Pitkin being introduced,
alluded to the Senator as one in whom not
only the State but the nation at large con-
tide their faith. In arraying the elements
of opposition with which Senator Kellogg
has been met, the speaker said he smote
down all opposition. In alluding to the
war, the speaker called the roll of its event
ful years, and showed the design Of the
Republican party in the organization of
the States lately engaged in rebellion, and
how the plan had been successfully con-
summated. .
1--WE sent" said the speaker, 'in 1868, a
representative to the United States Senate,
a man seville to no man, and one who had
shown his ability to cope with the most
difficult questions" In alluding to his as
sistance in the new treaty, the speaker
drew picture of the situation, and con-