The weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1872-1882, 1872-09-21

/ A N A, SATU II D AY,
ISPEECH OF DIR. J. +. NEW
MAN BEFORE THE FOURTH
! WARD MOTHER CLUB.
Mr.. President and Fellow-citizens. -
The Republican party Of the State c
Louisiana is once more a unit. but let q
not fold up our arms with this assurance
because We have powerful enemy in th
shape of this fusion hybrid Democracy t
fight.
DIRK and lowering clouds hang over on
ship of State, and it will require oil o
our efforts to land her safely ina haven Q
peace on the 4th of November next.
Although the night seems dark an,
stormy, the wanderers bring US idings o
the rainbow of hope which is rising il
eur political skies.
1t is not my purpose to analyze tn
character of the Democratic candidat,
for Governor. It is q we'll known fac
that the camp Of the Democracy is nj
place for colored men. Did you not heal
the clarion notes Of your own great Doug
las-swiftly winged messengers have car
zied them to the remotest hamlet In the ma
ton; they were dictated by wisdom and ex.
perienee. He says that the Republican par'
ty is the only craft for the colored man
and all else is boundless sea of ruin and
desolation; but, fellow-citizens, it would
bs snperAuous on my part to attempt to
make this more clear, because do no,
believe that there is colored man in the
State Of Louisiana. who is not aware Of
that fact.
Now let us come in an unbroken pha-
lanx to the polls, and vindicate ourselves
as citizens. Let rs lay aside petty differ
erences, chickering's for superior distictions,
and the foul complaint Of mortified vanity,
Remember that the great Republican
party is a monument built by no one man.
Remember the stones that we have insert
ed, are neither mine nor yours but part
of the great temple. Then happy will any
of you be who has performed the least
particle Of labor in erecting this stupend-
GUS fabric of freedom.
Let US hear no more against the men
that you delegated to Baton Rouge and
clothed with power to select officers for
our State government, True there are
gentlemen if they had been fortunate
enough to receive the nomination,
should have voted for with pleasure, and
have advised you to do the sBme. It
has pleased our State Executive Con-
mittee to make consolidation, and that
Committee, as it now stands, think We
could not have had better nomination.
than the one We now have, that is the Hon.
William Pitt Kellogg for Governor and
Hon. G. G. Antoine for Lieutenant Gov
ernor. know that there have been q
great many objections to Mr.. Kellogg, but
they are groundless.
Louisiana has never been since her ad-
vent into the Union, more zealously
guarded than she has been in the last
Congress. Her internal improvements
have been looked after; large appropria-
tons have been made to increase her navi-
CATION; thousands of fertile acres have
been redeemed to make homes for free
people; her commercial interests have
been relieved from taxation, and all this
could not have been done by man who
had not the prosperity of his constituency
It heart.
BY his enemies he is accused Of voting
against the civil rights bill. I will admit
hat Mr.. Kellogg was absent upon one oc-
;asion when that bill was brought up, be-
,ause in his judgment he thought there
vas chance for its defeat.
Some enemy with an insidious smile
would say the better reason for him being |
n his seat to defend it. 1really do believe |
hat no man did labor harder for its pas
age than Mr.. Kellogg. Mr.. Kellogg is o |
tatesman, and if through any honorable
he could bring advocates
or its passage he knew full we'll that his
'bsense would be justified by his const-
uents.
And, fellov-citizens. let mo tell you once
Or all that William Pitt Kellogg's name
tands out in bold relief in favor of the
assage Of that bill, and if he so ably de-
ended you abroad, it is reasonable to sup
ose that he will execute the laws with
guilty and justice at home. Fellow citizens
lr. Kellogg is the choice Of the sovereign
eopls Of Louisiana, and on the 4th day
t November, when the sun rises from his
rental home and falls asleep in his oc-
dental chair, cannons will thunder forth
,eir glad congratulations, and the wild
uzzas Of the people will 60 up to Heaven;
,e nation will be saved; our beloved Lou
lana will be free. A new era will be in
agurated and, if I could speak with the
athority Of prophet, We will have no
lore internecina: war to disturb the tran
utility and peacefnlness Of q free people.
ur party is on the eve of union and con-
,lidaion, We will haye the -operation
Republicans under tie lesd Of gentle
eman Who we feared at one time was in ,
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