New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-04-12

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4 AZ tho oCnclusiom Of Nj. Mofton's speech.
vico President COlfAx was formally infro.
duced. He Sid he came 70 listen to the
speech Of tho distinguished Senator who
ksd 20 ably defended Republican principles
and 10 theoretically indicated our .cbief
magistrate from unjust attack, . chief ma
gistrate, may say from my intimate &C
quaintance with him. whose very heart
thrObs for the honor and the best interests
OF the nation, and who, believe, will be
honored with the public approval in 1872 as
he was in 1868. (Applause.] What is the
great question that looms up and beyond all
Others before us to-day, which causes Re-
when they would gladly be at their homes!
1t is the protection of the life, liberty, poll
teal rights, and safety of OUR citizens
against the worst of cOnspiracies that ever
diegraced nation prOfessedly at peace. 1t
is to cover with the national shield the weak
and poor, humble and defenseless. ZAP
pIause.
/ rejoice that ON Thursday last we saw
the whole Republican phalanx in the House
YOUNG tO6ctucT US Ouc ul8u, SQOulUer 10
shoulder and heart with heart for an eff
cient law so serely needed, and hope next
week we shall see the same conspicuous
unity manifested in the Senate. If we do,
know as you do that the President will
use the power put in his hands by the law
making authority, not to wrong or injure
any one, but to protect to the full extent
all who are SO cruelty and so shamefnlly
outraged. Applause. But when this VIM
dicatiOn of the wrOnged and defenseless is
attempted, how is it metz Our. opponents
use as their favorite weapon the terms
carpet-baggers and scalawags; and cover
ing them with obloquy and denunciation,
they thus seek to palliate the enOrmities
they dare not directly defend. Who is a
carpet-bagger? He is. citizen Of the
United States, born on our soil or naturalized
in our cOul ts, who has the right to settle
wherever he pleases under our flag, in North
Carolina as well as Indiana. in South Caro-
lima as well as Vermont, with the right to
proclaim his sentiments wherever he lives
and whatever his creed, condition, color or
profession may be, on the hOuse-t0ps or by
his ballot. with none to modest or to make
him afraid. 1t was for this our soldiers
bore the starry flag representing the power
of the republic over the South. to make the
soil of the republic free for all it's citizens.
Who is a scalawaga He is a native of the
South, who when the storm of civil war
burst on his region dared despite the danger
of death, imprisonment, cOnfscation or exile,
to declare that he stood by the union, true
among the false, loyal before armed treason,
faithful among the faithless. 1t is to cover
them all with the shield of the national pro-
lection against masked and midnight con-
spiracy and murder and sccurging that
Congress interposes between
them and their enemies.
1t is to protect those who are poor and
humble, and who, unlike the rich and
powerful, have no other protector but the
law, that the Congress remains here for
their vindicatiOn 1t is to end these shame
less outrages that have already dishonored
the nation, and that have gone entirely
unpublished go long. On our banner we
have that noble motto. "equal and exact
Justice for all men," Thirty years ago it
was the honorable motto of the Democracy
of that day; but for what are we denounced
by the Democracy. of these times 1t is
because we have taken that principle which
they once proclaimed. but proclaim no
longer, and have enshrined it forever and
rrevocably in Our national constitution,
and because we intend that it shall be re-
spected and Obeyed throughout our entire
domain, faithful to it. faithful especially to
he wr0nged and those who are ready to
perish, faithful to the great principles of
liberty, justice and protection. In this
'ign we can not fail to conquer and win, in
1872, a victory for the right as brilliant as
my in our past eventful history.