New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-04
Cratz Brown in Ohio.
We copy the following dispatch from the
ATenDbis A,neoI OfsThursday:

Memphis appeal ofThursday:
. COLUMBUS, Ohio, July. 3l.-The Liberal
and Democratic mass convention reassem-
bled at two o'clock at the east front OF the
State House. After choosing two electors,
as stated in the afternoon dispatches, the
committee appointed to wait on Is. Gratz
Brown at his hotel soon returned with that
gentleman, who was introduced by Judge
Spaulding as the next Vice President OF the
United States.
On taking the stand, Mr.. Brown said he
was physically unable to make long
speech His speech at Frankfort yesterday,
united with his ride to this city, gave him a
severe headache. lie sara ONO haC al,
WAYS had a controlling interest III national
politics. and it has always so happened
that her voice has always been decisive IN
the great presidential contests OF the past.
1t would seem as if that influence was not
to be lessened in the present contest. She
is looked upon from all quarters OF Ine Nd
ton with great interest. lie said that SO
far as tho questions that are DeIOre IIe
people are concerned, 1t reduces 1t SUD
stantiallv TO this: Whether it shall be
possible for the people of the United States
to install, in March, an administration that
will give a better account OF the tfOu-
bles of the country, a better solution OF
the diversties that have sprung up
between the sections, a more certain
adjustment OF IDdI COultlCb VI 4cNNo tAtAS
has been brewing for sgne years past, than
the one which now holds power there. The
speaker declared that the Grant speakers,
instead of answering such questions as to
whv they have not fulfilled their promises
made abOut peace IN the South, 1t was
found, they said, little above a cordial
shaking Of right hands between the races,
but they were. only told that under the
Grant administration the national debt had
been reduced at the rate of $lOOOOO,OOO an
nuaIly. He said that the people knew, TO
their sorrow, who paid this debt.
In regard to the reconstruction policy OF
President Grant, the speaker said that 1t
had been a failure, and had not succeeded
in restoring peace, order, good government
and an honest administration IN any OF the
States under sits control. lie said, on the
other hand, tEat in Virginia, where Liberal
ism has had full sway, all went we'll; n0ne'
either black or white, was oppressed. len
nessee. which kad been perfect hell I'M
der BrOwnlOw's administration, has also
changed; aud, continued the speaker, go
there to-day, where Liberalism IS triumph
ant, and you find peace and good order, ana
kindly feeling toward the black race You
find that the State is rapidly resuming its
condition of natural prosperity; putting It's
finances in order, building up it's railroads,
labOring to protect ard secure the rights
of it's citizens. You hear nothing of this
antagOnism of races that is the cry to-day
in North Carolina. l might add that II you
would go further, and 60 to Missouri,
where, perhaps. this policy has had its
most emphatic trial. You might see there,
as / will say, although l don't desire to be
bOastful of my own State, as prosperous a
condition of things as in any State IN this
nation. You will find that that State,
which was upheaved almost by volcanic
action, as it were, and left with the edges
of society ragged, jagged and sharp, and
cutting against each Other-yOu will find 1t
as smooth aud pleasant as in any other
State in the Union; you will find in the poll
ties of Missouri that there are not now ex-
listing any animOsities that grew out of the
war. Its people are all in harmony and ac
cord, and are engaged in industrial
pursuits. The have forgotten animes-
tiles of the past, and no longer even
think of them. You will find, furthermore,
if YOU want to protect the colOred race in
its freedom, It's franchise is an illustration
of the manner of doing it. You will find
that their principles are not only mbedded
in the constitution Of the State, but are
granted by democrats by unanimous
vote of the whole State, which has hun
bred and some odd thousand, believe, and
a few thousand opposition. You will find
that there is no feeling in all that land to
disturb the present condition of affairs.
You will find no white man there with pre-
iudices and animOsities against the cOlOred
race. You will find them there taken by
the hand, that their feelings and their
rights are respected. You will find they
have all through that State established
their schools and churches, and are rebuild
Ing themselves to be worthy members
of society. You will find that they have
their normal schools, that they have their
State university, so to speak, and that that
State university or normal school has re-
ceived its endowment at the hands OF a
Democratic Legislature. | call that proof
of the results Of the Liberal policy, l ap-
peal to YOU to Judge Of this work on one
hand as against the policy. and the admin
istIation on the other, and when you make
your calculations as to what is best for the
nation, do it honestly, do it COnscientiOusly
and do it with a full knowledge Of what
YOU are doing FellOw-citizens, / would
gladly, if l we're able, go on with line OF
these remarks, and undertake to show yOu
that the policy of the administration, so far
as the clements Of society which are at work
at the South are concerned, has been a
failure, and why has it been a failure! l
could show you that it could not by any
possibility have been anything other than
a failure. | would like to show you, fur
thermOTe, that far as the safety of the
ColOred race, in their franchises and in
their freedom, is concerned, it can never be
comparable with war against the white
race. l say that whenever it is 80 antag
Onistic, it has been made so by the power
of the administTa ton. 1t is the admins
tration which has prod uced this animOsity
and hostility. This indirect antagonism
will be fatal to the black men, even if they
should not touch tn cir liberties themselves.
But have not time to-day to go into the
argument of these questions
The speaker then closed by saying that
he hoped to again speak to the people of
Ohio during the campaign.