New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-07-16
sr. LANES REPUBLICANs.

dersOn's store, last Sunday, General o. F.
Hunsaker was chosen president and Eu-
gene Gaudet secretary.
The president, upon taking tbs chair, was
received with three rousing cheers. He ex-
pressed his great qualification at Witnessing
the enthusiasm and unanimity Of the Re-
publicans in support of the regular Repub-
lican party. In the success of that party,
he said, rests the only hope of the cOlored
people. He concluded amid great cheering,
and introduced the speakers from New Or
/ leans.
General Campbell, being introduced,
| spoke as follows:
Fellow-citizens of st. James-I thank you
| for your kind and enthusiastic reception.
| This is my second visit to your beautiful
! parish. come again to meet you on your
! invitation upon the same errand, that is to
/ speak to you in behalf of the regular old
| Republican principles and the support of
/ the regular Republican convention. / have
| listened with particular interest to the
| speech of the distinguished and able repre-
! sentative man of your own people (GOv-
.ernOr Pinchbaek) to-day, and l was proud,
/ both for your sakes and for mine, that in
/ your presence and before so many OF the
/ representative white citizens of the parish,
| he, as man Of your people, delivered
| so noble, able, manly and states
manlike a speech. In listening to him
| you and they listened to the embodiment
| Of your race, presenting before both races
in the purest most chaste and most elo-
| quent language, with the elearest and most
unanswerable logic, in the noblest and fair
est possible spirit, and with an appeal to
the grayest interests and the highest senti
ments of the whole people, your interests,
your rights, your claims and your purposes
in the coming election.
Srch a speech, coming from your people,
could it go forth trumpet-tOngued into
every parish of this State and penetrate to
the ears of all their people, would elicit a
warm and hearty response from every true .
Louisianian heart. ! was proud of it all as
one of the nOblest Intellectual efforts have
ever listened to. But the part of which l
was most proud, which caused my pulse to
bound, and my blood to course its veins
like swollen rivers, was that sentiment
which will immortalize its speaker, in which
he said TO the white people of this State
that the time had come for
party in Louisiana on a broader and more
friendly road, in which they were anxiOus
to take by the hand the older white citi-
zens Of the State, without regard to past
differences on account of the war or other
causes. Now, my friends, in the present |
transition and confused state Of political |
parties, this is significant and important |
announcement, which should, and believe |
viii, attract the careful thought of all the |
people.
Let me come right down and talk to the |
doubts and the questions which know you |
are at this moment thinking over, even if |
you do not express them.
First you see a great General, who led |
the Union armies to victory. and has been |
fhn Knnnhlipnn President fnf1r /
again Republican candidate for the Presi- |
dency. But on the other side you see an |
old time Republican and AbOlitionist, one
of your earliest and truest friends, nomi-
mated against General Grant by another |
Republican convention, and afterward,
only few days ago, the entire Democratic /
party of the United States ratifying this
Republican nomination. You see Repub-
hcans and Democrats, Union men and Con-
federates, swinging their hats and hurrah-
ing for this old AbOlitiOnist and Republican.
This puzzles you, don't itl [Cries Of yes,
yes
Well, then, again you, four years ago.
elected Governor Warmoth your Governor.
Since he went into power you have had
greater liberties, better secured rights,
more privileges, more power and better,ad-
vantages than ever before. You have re-
garded him as your Republican leader and
chief. You also see old faithful and recOg-
nized. Republicans, such as Governor
PiDchback, General Hunsaker, General
Barber and others, whom you have ever
seen where your rights or interests were in
question, standing up and contending faith
fully for you. You see these gentlemen 1
representing the regular Republican State
Convention here claiming your support for
the August convention as the only true Re-
publican organization in the State, and the
0nlyOne whose candidates will have any
hope Of success.
On the other hand you see Mr.. Packard,
Mr. Ingraham, Mr.. BOyee and others telling
you that they are Republicans; that one
Mr. Kell0gg-did you ever hear of him
[Cries of nO-dont know him Did you
ever see him Move never will, I
reckon]-one Mr.. Kellogg is to be your
Republican leader and chief. This puzzles
mean 1 will tell you. First, as to our
own State, General Grants. federal ap
pointees Messrs.e Packard, Casey aud
others, were not satisfied with running
their federal Offices They set to
work to control the State convention
so that they could get the State
Offices also. They couldn't do this
fairly. So they tried to do it BY force.
They called the convention in the Custom
house; they locked it; they employed pro.
fessiOnal rOughs and bruisers of New Or
leans as deputy marshals, and called out
soldiers to back them, and they then re-
fused to admit over sone-half Of the dele
gates elected by the people. These dele
gates of yours and of the people then left
the CustomhOuse and assembled the regu-
lar Republican convention in Turner Hall,
New Orleans. These Customhouse men,
last june, held another convention at
Baton Rouge There they refused, against
the wishes Of majority of their own men,
to unite with us, the regular Republicans
They turned out a large number of their
own delegates and finally disgusted and
drove away at least the half of their own
convention. Thus constituted, the Custom
house men pretended to nominate Mr.. Kel-
logg as the Republican candidate for Gov
ernor, and to make him your leader. We |
say we repudiate these pretensiOns. We
publicans did not nominate them. Second, T.
the candidates are not Republicans. Mr.. +.
kellogg is not Republican Mr.. Clintonis
not Republican Mr., Antoine is not a
Republican. The result is they can not
elect that ticket. We can not eleetit for
hem even if we tried Therefore to our
of August 9, do the Republicans
oOk to nominate true Republican ticket
which shall satisfy the people. This we
will try to do, and ask you to help Us by
sending good men to the convention. Now,
"a to national matters, President Grant has
lad two faults, which have brought
lbOut an our trouble First, he has had bad {
sdvisers and has been led by them. Second,
ne has had too many brotheTs-in1aW- This
hing has happened not alone in this State,
)ut in almost an the States. This dissatis-
led so many Republicans that q large. con
FentiOn Of them met at Cincinnati and
dominated another Republican, as opposed !
g General Grant. THIS man is Horace