New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-18

| thirteenth the fourteenth anu Lne ntGeenth
amendments. Here Democrats come pre-
| pared also to accept these issues, to labor
with us in securing a reductian Of taxation,
just and equal execution of our laws, and
propagation of the blessings OF peace and
prosperity.
But we protest that the war has ended;
that the rebellion has long since ceased to
exist. We believe that there has been an
obligation imposed upon us as regards the
citizens of the South, a people of our race
and our color, which it is our duty to meet;
that her children should have voice in
her councils that he whose newborn sight
tirst looked upon her sky, whose childhood
ripened into manhood under her institu-
Eons, whose heart is filed to overhOWing
with veneratiOn and love for his native
State, should be forgiven; that at the bal
lot box he should be allowed the right of
sufrage-the prOudest privilege of our
people, the birth-right of the American
citizen.
1 am confident that in the coming con-
test truth, justice and liberty will triumph;
that the voice of the people will be heard
and their wills maintained; that this Union,
"tais beautiful structure, this harmonious
aggregate of States produced by the Joint
consent of all, ," can not long continue thus
the scene of usurpatiOn and military des
pOtism; that the President who transferred
y
its batteries turned upon the represent
atives OF portion of the people of Louis
lana for the purpose of debating his own
political creed, can not be the choice of the
nation; that the unscrupulOus policy which
trampels upon our most sacred rights and
hottest trust, which violates the con-
stitution itself in unscrupulous at
tempts to obtain a new lease of power
which thrusts upon the people of the South
O6iO1e ond Orrpassi vra Jovvo +l,o-,,
of the benefits of habeas corpus, and adOrn-
ing their elections with the beat of drums
and the glitter of bayOnets; / am confident
that such policy can secure neither your
sanction nor support. Governor WarmOUh,
in assuming position in the ranks of the
Liberal Republican party, has pursued
course which must meet with the approval
and Endorsement of the friends of Louisiana.
| believe that in the future he will be able
to labor untrammeled by party claims, and
unhampered by unscrupulOus political
friends, for the prosperity of our State; that
the children of Louisiana have the ability to
sit In her Judgment seats, and to speak
from her legislative halls: that with our
present Governor as the leader of our new
party, assisted by the wisdom and the patri-
Otism of the sons of our soil, we can achieve
success and prosperity in the coming con-
tlict.
The nominee of the Cincinnati eonven-
tiOn will receive the support of the patriots
and of the peaoe-lOving people of every
State from the sail spangled Atlantic to the
tidcless Pacific, from the lakes to the gulf.
Honesty and intelligence will be preferred
to speculation and ignorance. There will
be no hesitation about Horace Greeley, the
upright, Straightforward, sincere and pa,
triOtic man of large views and heart hu-
a philosopher, philanthropist
of pure life, unseltish nature and honest as
piratiOns for the welfare of his country and |
the good of hisfellOw-men," and L. S. Grant, |
political trickster and cheat: the impotent |
tool of party managers and adrOit dema-
gOgues; the staunch advocate of neDOtism, |
whose every respiration is heavy with the |
desire for power, who looks upon the Pres |
ldency as the FL Dorado of wealth and the |
Utopia of empire; who has ever cried ire
OelhOn" when the voice of the South was /
against him, and prepares to Overshadow /
the coming elections with the terrOrs of the |
Ku-klux bill and the intimidation of armed |
military interference. Who, with the his
tory of the past three years before him,
would not repudiate Grant and his corrupt |
and battle for Greeley and
,eform
We can point with pride and qualification
70 the record of Horace Greeley, through |
he thirty years of his public life. There
IAN be found not one act upon which to
niger in complaint not one sordid express
ZION of opinion upon which to rest in re-
lrOsch. We can point to his unimpeachable
honesty and simplicity; his vast attain
nents and knowledge in every department
If political science: the fearlessness and
with which he exposed |
even in his own party his life
Ong devotion to the cause of humanity;
lis sympathy for the poor; his unequaled
advocacy of emancipation; his labOrs in
avOr of general amnesty, and his efforts to
arrest the military tendency of the present
Republican administration and restore the
'epublc to what it should be-a govern
nent upheld and controlled by the will of
he people. Such is Horace Greeley. Such
s the choice of the Liberal Republican
party, and such will be the executive who,
N the fourth of March, 1873, will deliver
lis inaugural address to a constituency
composed of Democrats and Republicans,
lnited to redeem the country and preserve
he purity of its institutions,
Mr.. Adams having concluded, the cries
or speakers were resumed, and Mr.. w. B.
Phillips, of Grant parish, took the stand
nd spoke to the same effect as those who
lad preceded him.
The meeting adjourned subject to the call
f the president 1t was one formed on the |
LIBERAL basis, including all classes. The ma
Ority were of that portion which are the
lain strength of any political party, the
urely political element being in the back
round.