New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-01-16
NEW ORLEANS REPUBLICAN, TUESDAY, JANUARY 49, 1872

ored men apparently acting with them.
lest they should lose what little support
they have from that element. Now, sir,
these gentlemen should succeed, / say to
the colored people of this State from my
place in the Senate today: bid farewell
to all your privileges as American citizens;
bid farewell to your right to sit upon Jurles;
bid farewell to your right to public educa-
ton; bid farewell to equal public privileges;
bid farewell to the right to hold any public
office from police juror up to the highest
Office in the gift Of the people-in a word,
prepare yourselves for the same condition
that your people are in every State IN
this Union that has passed out Of the hands
of the Republican party; and prepare to re-
ceive the same treatment here that your
race are receiving to-day in Alabama, in
Georgia, in Tennessee, and in Virginia;
prepare yourselves for a condition of servi-
tude second only to that which you knew
before the war; Knowing these things as
d., if fail to enter my protest against this
course, then, in the words OF Patrick Henry,
may my right hand forget its cunning
and my tongue cleave to the root OF my
mouth. never WILL on account of public
clamOr, ON account of mistaken ideas IN
stilled into the people by designing dema-
gogues-I never will, from any such mo-
tives, fail to discharge my duty as the rep
resentative of the colOred men in the Senate
of Louisiana.
Mr. Barber-There has been enough said
on this resolution, in my Judgment, to cause
its adoption; but l have noticed III the
speeches of all the Senators that they have
seemed to omit one very important item.
1t looks to me that if the people Of Louis
lana are aggrieved by the acts of their Leg
islature, the proper way would be either to
come to the hall of the Legislature and
make their petitions, or to go before Con
gress and there lay their complaints. The
State of Louisiana occupies the same posi-
ton among the States of the Union as an
individual does among his fellows in this
State We have seven members OF Con-
gress elected by the votes of this State, and
one of their serious duties is, whenever the
State of Louisiana finds she has grievance
inflicted upon her by the federal authorities
or any part thereof, to lay these grievances
before Congress, and to seek there redress
1t has been said that we have exhausted
every means of obtaining a quorum. do
not think so, while we leave this remedy
untried. One of the Senators whose seat is
now empty Senator Sypher) has brother
among our Representatives in Con
gress. l believe his brother in Con-
gress knows the whole policy that
is being carried out. l believe Senator
Kellogg is at the very bottom Of the whole
conspiracy at Washington, and inpresses
upon the mind of President Grant false
statements of the position of things here:
But there are other Representatives and
Senators whose sworn duty it is to 60 to the
executive with the peoples complaint; and.
l say, when we have forced their attend
ance to explain everything, then we may
let the responsibility rest where it may, tor
we shall have taken every step to obtain a
quorum. heartily support the resolution,
but should advocate it with more earnest
ness if it provided that our members of
Congress should be forced to do their duty
in this matter. If this is done. and we fail
in obtaining a quorum, what will be the
verdict of the people' They will say,
these men met from day to day with the in
tention of performing their duties as we'll
as they knew how. They have failed in
accomplishing their object, but the respon-
sibility is not upon them, but it is on the
heads of those whose attendance they at
tempted to compel.
Lieutenant Governor Pinchback in the
TO BE CONTINUED.