The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-09-07
RADICAL SPEECHES AND BASKETS.

VI tne AeIuOcrsatlc UOCCflNe that the
interests of the whites and blacks are
identical. We conclude that the Rad
icals Gre very nearly converted, if they
hearken to the advice of their leaders,
Senator Kellogg, Col. Jas. Lewis and
Col. A. p. Fields. What a change is
this, whata compliment to Democratic
teachings, and what hum:!iating
confession of the falsity, aa,surdity and
proscriptive policy of the Radical faith!
Col. Fields, as the first speaker proud
ly proclaimed himself one of the chiv-
airy, and denounced his old compatri-
OF, Horace Greeley, because he has SLAM
dered the Southern people! He read,
vauntingly, Greeley's sayings against
the Democrats, and appealed, as some
modern Cato, to Southern pride.
Senator Kellogg wanted harmony
between the whites and blacks. In
travelling through this country he saw
strange things--(as any stranger might
He had heard that our people submit
ted cheerfully to the laws. Had heard
complaints of the Ku-Klux law, of the
desire of the colored people to monopo-
lize the offices. This last complaint
would correct itself. 1T seemed the
complaint was just, and the speakers
ticket was not defended against the
complaint Mr.. Kellogg made sever
al thrusts at his friend Andy johnson,
and claimed, strange to say, that Con-
gress had the right to decide against
johnson. Mr.. Kellogg paid a glow
ing eulogy to the freedmen; defended
Grant and Wilson, as men who were
opposed to the prescription of the re-
construction measures, and declared
that we had suffered more at the hands
of the State, than the Federal Govern
mcnt. Mr.. X. seemed to forget that
he was p6,ticeps crinainis as to both. ]
He went on to arraign the State gov
eminent, and said 1t had brought us
almost to the verge Of bankruptcy. He
reverted to Greeley's career, and want
cd to know whether Greeley's candida
cy was "Pinchback' affair or not.
ISensation in the audience.] He said
Greeley could not be kept off the track,
and was like Casey's calf. Mr.. kellogg
went enthusiastically into the capital
and labor question, and thought CAPT.
tai might arouse a lion. His appeal in
behalf of labor was touching, and, in
him, one of the most appropriate ef-
forts we ever heard.
Mr.. kellogg slightly touched upon
Col. McEnery's legislative record, and
then declared we were upon a current
that tends to nationality Decentralization
He got back on the labor question;
said the negroes were the more numer-
Gus party, and that to show their sim
certify the whites ought to go over to the
blacks.
He declareG-(and we blushed to
hear it) that all Federal taxes on the ne
cessaries of life had been abolished;
then went for the old Democrats, be-
cause they opp osed internal improve
ments-(forgetting the positions, rela-
lively, of Grant and Of Greeley, forget
ting the tariff business, the cotton tax,
and all that)-and then char ged Gree
leys with Capitalization, which he
had just said was now the current;
made old Horace out the best of Re-
publicans, and then came down, again,
to State affairs. He would reject all
fraudulent debts; told his colored
friends if they could not find honest
Republicans, to vote for honest DEM
ocrats, and that if Republicans go to
the capital and come back home with
hundreds Of greenbacks, to spot them,
(Eheu! Brewster, Morey ct alsD Mr..
Kellogg warmly espoused the cause of
education for the negro; deprecated
Authorization, and closed by propos-
ing three cheers for his colleagues.
Col. Lewis, colored, made the next
speech, very creditable talk, but en-
tirely too moderate for his black
brethren.
Caesar Antoine followed, got hope
lessly lost among a host of that's, fioun-
dered about awhile, and then subsidized.