New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-06-18

nv few remaining days may be passed, the
better l shall like it. tLaughter.1
| ON THE WAY TO TEXAS.
Now. then, I went to Texas to deliver
| that agricultural address at Houston, and
1 delivered it, That was my work, and it
/ was done. But on my way thlther cruz
of Union soldiers, living in New Orleans,
pressed me to make speech to them IN
| their clubroom, and did so. / attempted
| in that speech to vindicate the right of this
nations representatives tos visit the terrific
ries purchased by their manly defenders by
| their blood, and organized into States Dy
their Congress, and made integral portions
of this republic argued that the southern
part of the Mississippi valley could not bear
to be separated by two hostile lines OF frown-
| ing fOrtresses and menacing customnouses.
| | believe and | argued that never did The
| people of the lower Mississippi in their SOBER
senses seek to be alienated from the people
of the upper Mississippi: and | affirmed the
right of the American people to navigate
! that river to the Rocky Mountains, to the
ocean, unimpeded by any gunboats sta
toned there to cause vessels to heave 10
and have customhouse papers examined.
iiierTed: tApplause.l Then again, 1
visited the little city of Columbus =
the only place / did visit the western
side the Colorado river. l was about this
| time of night sitting in my hotel, and was
| waited upon by German deputatlon
| to come over to their clubroom and talk to
them. Well, though being "a loyal Union
I man, went over, and to hastily assembled
| crowd, / spoke for half an hour perhaps,
in vindication and explanation of the late
| great struggle for the unity of this country
and the unity of Germany, for the protec-
| ton of these two great nations IN their
| rights of territory and nationality. | urged
as well as could that though some men
! honestly, / believe, thought our sacrifice
and the triumph therein OF the national
cause tended to despOtism on this continent,
and men so argue in respect to the German
| contest, that ON the contrary, / believe the
ultimate tendency of those two great con-
summations will be the promotion and adj
|. vancement of liberal ideas and institu-
tions in the Old World and also in the
| New. GApplause.] On that theme / des-
canted and enforced in half an hours
speech to the Germans of Texas. As was
leaving Texas, pressing invitation was
| given me by the Republicans of Galveston
| to make speech to them on the last night
| L spent in Texas. and L acceded to their re-
quest. l tried, before them, to vindicate
| the North against the charges made against
| it in the South; to prove the North did not
make war on the South, as too many South
ern people believe. tried to show them
that the war was commenced in the South,
in Texas, by capturing in their territory
the United States army and turning their
arms and ammunition against the flag and
integrity of our country and all the way
there we were virtually on the defensive
did what could to vindicate the North
from the reproach of malignity or the wish
to degrade or cripple the South.
ABOUT CARPET-BAGGERs.
Some of those who became judges and SO
on, stand in the public eye still and blunder
| know many of those fellows, and the pub
lie looks at them and does not look at the
honest man, but watches those rascals of
the party that are called carpet-baggers-
those iong-faced and greatly serious charac-
tiers looking for the salvation of souls, and
whose motto is ''let US pray" But they
always spell the pray with an e, and they
obey the apostolic injunction to pray I'M
ceasingly. Well, the time has been, and
is, when it is perilous to be known as a
Republican or AbOliti0nist, but it was not
as those carpet-baggers. They pretended
to be for Improvements of every kind, but
the improvements consisted in the bills in
their pockets. You will say we have some
here in the North. Yes, l know many of
them. .-t--Hl-
They saw that the South was without
money and bread, and these fellows came
when there was nothing to steal, but still
taking what they could, like the man who
stole the last plaster from the dead mans
eye. They were strangers, and the people
abhorred them, for though they were
robbed before, still they consoled them
selves, like the Greeks in the song written
by Byron.
tyrant; but the tyrant then
Was still at least our conntryman.
The men who robbed us did not take the
money out of the State as those do. The
South, you see, was not only beaten in the
contest but it was dreadfully astonished,
and they can not account for their defeat,
and what they say of our Fostering them,
appearing to their ljaundiced eye as the great
obstacle TO the strength of Republican prin-
ciples in the South, and as such denounce
them. Well then, you justify the Ku-klux,
or what! If they should place one hundred
OF them on rails and bear them across the
Ohio, would you wish that such should be
the case2 They make the Ku-Klux their
excuse for flashing the white men in their
claims for their rights, and this is disgrace
to Southern chivalry. 1t is right to try and
awaken the principles of patriotism in the
breasts of Americans, both North and South,
and said there will come time when they
will all feel just pride in the military
bravery and character of Stonewall Jackson.
Lee, and Grant, Sherman, jackson and
Thomas. You say that will be long time.
Well, can wait. But my voice will still be
raised to say few words about the new de-
parture- When men are in bad fix they
had better depart from it, and then the de-
parture from the custom of running astray.
will act on them and keep them from run
ming their heads against stone walls.
RI CONCERNING DEMOCRATIC DOCTRINES.
am in NO inclination to Judge them, but
think it is better they should do it They
say there was particular rough character
once who was known BIZ the whole com
munity, but finally he got infected with
religion, and Joined the church. One day
gentleman came and asked: "Do you see
any great change in Oaks p "Oh, YES, he
row carries one AK in his hand. and another
under his eOat-tail." am glad the Demo.
cratic party has taken off its shoulders fine
ak which was used against the colored man:
but l hope it will lay it back in the woods
and say to the black man, 1--WE are going TO
treat you as you behave yourselves |
hope that will be their way. | believe tbar
mean hereafter to make Democracy some-
thing more than it is. will urge them to
do So l did not understand them to ex.
press uneasiness or sorrow for their nro-
ceedlngs against the rights of men. They
admit that the three Republican men
are IN the situation, and while so they mnst
6e obeyed. 1t they can get them ont of
the situation that is another matter Init If
tney admit them IN power and acting rigbt
they are not likely to get them out Twen
ty-nVe years ago, l stood at the polls of tba
Nineteenth Ward of this CITY. and inv;tad
each party to give equal rights to all men
l did not get one Democrat to vote forit
Delleve In human progress, and that tbar
are wiser than twelve years ago. IT il not
two years since our Democratic Ier;sla +,,uo
repealed the act to ratify the fifteenth