New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-13
NATIONAL C0LORED CONVENTION.

| NAIlUNAL COLOKED CONVENVlONs
A good deal of the third days proceed
ings of this convention was consumed IL
quibbling about points of order.
The following additional members pre-
serted their credentials, and were admitted
to seats: M. w. Smith, Joseph B. Brook!
and +. G. Barbados, of the District of Co
Iumbia; Daniel Seals, of California; vii
liam A. Jones, of New York; Edward Brown
Of Texas.
Mr.. Rapier, Of Alabama, presented reso
luton, which was referred to the committee
on resolutions, resolving that hereafter
there shall be no more colored conventions
in this country: that the colored man in the
future will be content to wipe out color.
An effort was made by Mr.. David Cor
don, of Kansas, to have the election Of Mr.
Fred Douglass as president of the c0nven
tion Cancelled, and new president elected
in consequence Of an apprehension that that
| gentleman would not attend the cOnven
ton. The convention refused to accede to
the proposition until it could be more def
nitely ascertained that Mr.. Douglass would
not be here.
The special order Of the day-the resolu-
| ton of Mr.. Rapier, of Alabama, repudiat.
iag the Labor Reform and Cincinnati con
ventions-was then called up, and its con
sideration deferred until twelve o'clock.
| A telegram from the Hon. John NJ. Lang
ston was read to the convention. 1t was
addressed to Colonel J. H. Ingraham, first
| vice president of the colored convention,
and reads as follows:
have just returned from Cincinnati en-
| route to convention. Prevented from com
ing by freshet. Douglass is on the way.
will be seconded by passage OF civil rights
bill. Congress will not adjourn without its
passage. 1t will probably be done next
week.
Mr. F. G. Barbados informed the con.
vention that Mr.. Fred Douglass and party
would arrive about twelve o'clock last
night. They had been detained on the road
forty eight hours by freshets.
On motion of Mr.. Turner, of Alabama, a
| committee of three was appointed to draft
resolutions expressive of the deep regret of
the cOlored people Of this country at the
death of the late Lieutenant Govern or
Dunn. The chairman appointed Messrs.
Turner, Frost and Ruby said committee
At twelve'o'clock the special order of the
day-Mr. Rapier's resolut,on-was again
called up and read.
Nr. Pinchback offered the following as an
amendment to the same:
RcsOlred, That Hon. Charles Sumner, BY
his disnterested advocacy of our rights,
and his cOnsummate statesmanship in Sc
curing a recognition of these rights in the
constitution Of the United States, has en-
deared himself to the coored people of the
nation. and until Hon. Charles Sumner shall
himself announce his secession from the
Republican party, We shall hold him to be
as he has ever been, one of the purest and
ablest members of our great party.
Tie chair ruled the amendment out of
cred separately.
Nj. Pinchback appealed from the deci-
sion Of the chair.
Pending the appeal, MI. Rufiu, of Massa-
chUsetts, obtained the floor, and spoke at
length, eulogizing the course OF Mr.. Sum
ner, and depicting in choice oratory tie
noble part he had taken in defense of the
rights of the down-trodden colorcd people
of this country in the past; denouncing at
all times their deep wrongs, and still con-
tending that justice shall be done
them. Mr.. Rufin declared himself to
be Republican, and that he intended
to follow the fortunes of the Repub-
lican party, and was convinced no man n
the country better understood Republican
principles and acted up to them than Mr.
Sumner. Mr.. Rufin urged with much force
the blighting effects of a Democratic vic
tory next fall, and thought the convention
should not waste its time in creating divi
sions in the Republican party, but should
go 10 work at once and demand those civil
rights that have thus far not been fully &C
corded to the colored people of this country;
that is what this convention was called for,
and that work alone should occupy its val
liable time. This said Mr.. Rutfin, ''is
what the Hon. Charles Sumner has been
working for and is working for now, while
this convention is wraDgling about far less
important matters to the great mass of
colored people"
Mr.. Jacobs, of Mississippi, followed Mr..
Rudin, and spoke in opposition to the pas
sage of Mr.. Rapier's resolution condemning
the Cincinnati convention. He said this
was not one-man government. No one
knew who would be the candidate of the
Philadelphia convention, or what would be
its platform. Nor did any one know what
would be the complexion of the Cincinnati
convention, or who would be its candidates;
and until these things were known it was
not meet for members of this convention to
be taking action upon subjects entirely for
eign TO the objects for which it was called.
Mr.. j. Sella Martin, OF Massachusetts,,
thought Mr.. Sumner had as good a chance
for the Philadelphia nomination tor Presi-
dent as any other man. He was opposed
to the Cincinnati convention because he
thought it was to be the opening wedge to
divide the Republican party. He did not
think recent converts to Republicanism as
good as such welltried Republicans as Mr..
Sumner, and was opposed to hobnobbing
with men we did not know, and had no
reason to believe would assist in enforcing
the civil rights of the colored people.
Mr.. Bnrch was in favor of Mr.. Pinch
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