New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-03
The Lac Meetlng in s.. Ceorge.

! The Citizens Guard having published a
gafbled account of late controversy
meeting in st. Charles, where the Gree
ley and Grant policy we're discussed, brings
| forth the following reply from citizen who
"knows whereof he speaks" 1t may as
well be said right here that the meeting
at st. George station resulted in the triumph
of the Liberal party:
ST. CHARLES, La, July 81, 1879.
EDITOR REPUBLICAN,: .
A scurrilOus article, containing scarcely
nothing but personal abuse, appeared yes
| terday in the National Republican, concern
| ing a political gathering of the supporters
| of Greeley and Brown in ST. Charles parish
On Sunday last. As the National Repub-
iCGH finds its level in this sort of literature,
there is probably but little use in suggest
ing more elevating and useful fields of
thought. But little else can be expected of
the small fry of a party whose. leaders
! main tain their position before the people by
Ku-Klux laws, Gatling guns, post rolls and
all manner of VillainOus abuse of people
who honestly differ in politics with this
ravenOus party.
The course of the great political leaders
of the Grant party in st. Charles has been
some what singular. They have forbidden
their own presidents of clubs to call any
meetings whatever without "pass" from
the head president, as some of their dissat-
isfed members have expressed their action.
The pass system adopted during and for a
short time after the war was bad enough,
they say; but being compelled to 60 to the
court house for a pass to go to meeting of
their own, much less Greeley meeting, is
a great deal more oppressive. The work of
the GRANTEES here has been to forbid meet
ings of any kind unless called by the presi-
dent of the parish committee, whose theory
of duty seems to be that a resolution of a
small knot of Office-seekers should be Obeyed
in preference to the constitutions of the
United States and of this State, which guar
antee the right of the people to peaceably
assemble.
True to their practice of suppressing by
violence sentiment not in harmony with
their own, the CustOmhOuse lackeys were
out in full force on Sunday at a meeting of
peaceabIe citizens of St. Charles parish.
But st. Charles parish did not hold enough
Of this sort of politicians, SO st. John
parish poured forth her shining Grant
lights, and a draft was also made upon the
city of New Orleans to furnish the full
quota to stihe the voice of Mr.. Green, who,
by the way, announced himself Grant
man, for Mr.. SOcha was in no manner con-
nected with the meeting, the National to
the contrary notwithstanding Discussion
was invited by the friends of Greeley and
Brown, which is a favorable contrast com
pared with the course of the Grant and
4. Kellogg party of this parish, the political
principles of which consist, every time
meeting occurs, in violent abuse of every
prominent Republican who has done any
good for the people of the State, and espe-
cially the colored people. OF course Gov
ernOr WarmOth is the chief target for these
people.
No 1orh+ +ba cyood oitizaDa Of e. Cborlas
will deem these devoted and patriotic
Grant statesmen worthy of monumental
fame. What embarrassment their micro
scOpic visions perceived in that chap Har-
per. From their own record we have dis
covered the good these intelligent, big
hearted visitors, Judging from said report
have done to the people of st. Charles who
differed with them. At first their presence
produced a smile from an honorable. The
honorable finally becomes a Mr., when he
gets uneasy; after awhile he is styled presi-
dent and grows furious. This fellow Har-
per talks, the people came there on purpose
to hear Harper talk, but VilleFe interrupts
the meeting, and says what nobody else did
say, that the people wanted to hear him.
1t is, however, taken for granted that no
body in this free country is allowed to talk
against Grant or Kellogg. But the
Grant hOwleTs did not shave their
way, and they might just as well
make up their minds now as any
other time that such games will not work
Their own report shows that they CON
vinced nobody, and that the only work
they accomplished was to turn peaceable
meeting into riOtOus mob and disgusted
their own friends who had any regard for
decency, and we have simply to add that
such was the case. The sensible people
who supported Grant and Kellogg were dis
gusted and disheartened to observe that it
was deemed necessary to resort to such
disreputable means to keep up the courage
of the rank and file OF the party.
YOu may now rely upon the assertion
that a large vote will be polled by the PEG
pie of st. Charles for Greeley and Brown
and the Liberal candidate for Governor of
the State. A CITIZEN.