The semi-weekly Republican. (St. Francisville, La.) 1872-1872, 1872-06-25
new SERIES VOL |. NO. 81.
Tally llO !-.Greeley as Good as
dominated.

The returns from the States which
have already elected delegates to the
Baltimore convention, and the infor-
nation from others which will pro-
nounce within ten days, enables US
to give as fact an important an
It is this Greeley
and Brown are already, by the voice
of the people, in State conventions,
nominated as the Democratic candi-
dates for President and Vice Presi-
dent Of the United States. They
have received at this time that pop
ular support, in the shape of instruc-
tions, which renders their defeat, if
they live, simply an impossi5ility.-
All that remains for Baltimore will
be to confirm what has already been
determined by the people. All ans
ieties, therefore, in regard to the
nomination upon the part of the
Democrats might as we'll cease. The
candidates, and the only real candi-
dates, will be Greeley and Brown VS..
Grant and Wilson. From this time
henceforth the campaign should be
SO treated. All Democrats worthy
of the name bow to the arbitrament
of the Baltimore convention. Its
course is, as we have stated, a fore
gone conclusion, and our Democratic
friends are at perfect liberty to treat
it as such upon the manifestations
already made. We impress it, there
fore, as most significant, Greeley and
Brown are now nominated.
The great cause why carpet-bag-
gers in the South are opposed to the
election Of Horace Greeley is found
in the following extract of q speech
delivered in New York on his return
from the South in 1871.
"Well, gentlemen, the thieving
carpet-baggers are a mournful fact
they do exist there, and I have seen
them. They are fellows who crawled
down South in the track of our ar
mics, generally at a very safe dis
tance in the rear [; some of them on
suffers wagons some bearing cot
ton permits some of them looking
sharply to see what might turn up /;
and they remain there. They at
once ingratiated themselves with the
Blacks, simple, credulous, ignorant
men, very glad to welcome and to
follow any Whites who professed to
be the champions Of their rights
Some of them got elected Senators,
others Representatives, some Sher-
iffs some Judges, and so on. And
there they stand, right in the public
eye, stealing and plundering, many
of them with both arms around ne-
groes, and their hands in their rear
pockets, seeing if they cannot pick
a paltry dollar out of them and the
public looks at them, does not re-
gard the honest Northern men, but
calls every +" carpet-bagger'' thief,
which is not the truth by a good
deal. But these fellows-many OF
them long faced, and with eyes roll-
ed up, are greatly concerned for the
education of the Blacks, and for the
salvation of their souls. Great
laughter. "Let us prey" they say !;
but they spell pray with an "e," and
thus spelled, they obey the apostolic
injunction to "pray without eeas-
ing"
Fellow-citizens, the time has been,
and still is, when it was perilous to-
be known as a Republican or an
Abolitionist in the South but it
never called the blush of shame to
any mans cheek to be SO called un-
til these theiving carpet-baggers
went there-never! [Applause. -
They got into the Legislatures they
went to issuing State bonds they
pretended to use them in aid of rail-
roads and other improvements. But
the improvements were not made,
and the bonds stuck in the issuers'