New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-25
NEW ORLEANS REPUBLICAN, SUNDAY, AUGUST 25 1872

Union, and thus secured the enslaYement
of four millions of human beings forever.
l have it on good authority that during
the war of the rebellion, that anxious dis
uniOnist, Mr.. Phillips, instead of shoulder
ing his musket and wading knee deep in
blood to free thepOOr negroes, was a constant
daily attendant at the Stock Exchange IN
Boston, with purpose of taking advantage
of the effect had upon stocks by the shots
fired at the defenders of that Union which
he so much hated, that he might gamble
thereon. 1t is also true that when free ter.
TitOTv was about being invaded in Kansas
in 1855 and 1856, and free white settlers
were driven from the polls by invaders
from Missouri and other Southern States
and shot down like wolves, and their wives
and children were outraged, simply because
they honestly opposed the existence and
extension of negro slavery, this accidental
President whom the BIZ n'I OficehOlders in
the South now hail as their Moses, was
then in ST. Louis in full sympathy with the
BORDER ruffans," whose business it waste
hang every free negro that they could find.
This loving Moses is now in bed with Wen
dell Phillips and William Lloyd Garrison!
What gracious trio.
When two of these men would have dis
solved the Union and plunged the entire
black race in the South into perpetual
bondage. and the third was encouraging
''ruthans" to carry the evil of slavery into
new territory, Charles Sumner and Horace
Greeley were both struck down in the ma
tiOnal capital because they were defending
the black mans cause. Now how stands
the case To whom are the black men
looking with gratitude They are turning
their backs upon the martyrs and pioneers
of the work of their salvation, and look
ing to the accidental Grant, whose federal
patronage has blinded their eyes; they
al 70 yT-Orl1 of Enab
ardly mischief-makers as Phillips and Gar.
rison, whose shOrt-sighted policy would
have robbed them OF every hope of escape
from slavery.
The meeting of cOlOred people held in this
city at Cooper Institute last Thursday night
to hear debate between two cOlOred cham
piOns-Garnett, for Grant, and Saunders,
for Greeley-was the most disgraceful affair
ever witnessed in this city. The custom
house influence was brought to bear upon
the Grant cOlOred men, and they were early
at the hall and surrounded the platform.
All that Garnett said was intended to
arouse their enthusiasm and excite their
worst passions. He was applauded in eve
rything that he said. When Mr.. Saunders
undertook to speak the custOmhOuse ne
grOes broke out into the most violent
noises, and manifested the worst specimens
of rOWdyism. Let it be remembered that
this was not a One-sided political meeting,
which Mr.. Saunders undertook to interfere
with, but, on the contrary, it was public
discussion, agreed upon between him and
Garnett, and those who came to hear them
had no right whatever to interfere, except
to express, properly, their appreciation or
dsapprObatiOn. Instead of that, the cOlOred
men showed their want of appreciation of
the great privileges SO recently conferred
upon them by the national government.
They manifested an utter contempt for the
right of free speech.
They illustrated clearly that they are not
prepared for selfgovernment. That very
meeting has put men to thinking about
what will be the condition of the Southern
States if such men under Grant get control.
A heavy Wall street dealer in stocks said
to me, on Saturday, after reading up the
carefully written accounts Of the meeting,
If Grant is elected l would nOtsgive two
cents for all the Southern State stocks that
exist. Such men are incapable of govern
ing. They do not show disposition TO
listen themselves or permit any other per-
son to do so. They went to the Cooper
| Institute meeting under instructions. They
yield their own judgments, If they have
any, to execute the dirty work of mean,
bad men. The cOlOred men of New York
| are supposed to be more intelligent, com
paratively speaking, than those in the
South, who have SO recently been i'll slave
ry II that is so then they should set an ex-
ample OF good behaviour, to those Of their
race who are less intelligent. This is
no doubt a fair specimen of what the peo-
ple of the South have seen much of, and if
Grant is elected these are the kind of peO-
pie who are to rule the Southern States l
am against it. Let us have a cOnstitu-
tiOnal amendment providing that no
man, black or white, shall have the right to
vote al any election in the United States
who cannot read and write. Let intelli-
gence be the basis Of suffrage and then we
will have purer elections aad better men
elected to office. Such Outrages as that
witnessed at Cooper Institute will then
cease to disgrace the popular assembly. l
want no more Southern State stocks if
Grant is elected"
So said the banker and broker, and he is a
man Of wisdom and business sagacitv.
The truth is, the unfortunate cOlOred men
of the South are being misled by bad men.
They will be the greatest sufferers in the
end for their present folly. SPIKE.