New Orleans Republican., 1872-06-02

| WVulu give buS siduip OF lis ulSdppIONdI y
the acts of his officers by public disclaimel
of any sympathy with, and to give evidene,
ef his sincere disapproval by the removal o
the men from office who had brOugh
discredit upon his administration and dis
ruptiOn to the Republican party in thi
State. [Applause.]
And again, you will not forget The
scenes of last January. You will remember
the arrest of the Governor of this State, the
Lieutenant Governor, four members of the
Senate and twenty-five members of the
House of Representatives by this same
United States marshal, who detained us in
| this same CustOmhOuse until his partisans
| in the House of Representatives could eXpel
seven members of that body, and place in
their seats fictitious contestants claiming to
be Representatives, By which change OF
thirteen votes was accomplished. ZAP
| plause I You will not forget either
! that an armed United States rev
enue cutter took beyond the juris-
| dictiOn of the constitution and laws Of
| this State seventeen Senators who we're, in
| violation of the constitution and their Oaths,
| absenting themselves from the discharge of
| their duties, until this illegal act of revOlu-
| tiOn should be accomplished in the House
| Of representatives., whereby they could
| effect a revolution and overthrow the con-
| stitutiOn and government of the State.
| diers of the United States we're brought to
this city to give their moral support, by
| their presence and encouragement, to
| this movement to overthrow the lawful
| government. You will remember that all
! these facts have been published by every
| newspaper in this land, that a congress
siOnal committee has taken the evidence,
that that evidence has slept for months
among the rubbish and archives of the gov
ernmental printer, and that no rebuke, no
dlsavOwal, no act of disapprOval has ever
come from the national administration.
But, upon the contrary, we have the evi-
dence, by the Presidents approval of the
act of General Emory in bringing the
troops to the city on the application of the
marshal, and OF his subsequent order, when
it was discovered that they had miscal-
culated the effect of the presence of these
troops, to withdraw them to a place five
miles from the city, in order that the mob
of CustOmhOuse employees and their allies
could assault the State House, expel the
Legislature and overthrow the government.
[Applause.l
And now with the approval of the Presi-
dent of the acts of the ninth OF last August,
with his approval of the acts of his people
of last January, with these fOrcible, revOlu-
tionary and illegal acts before you, l ask
you to say that you will not vote for the
reelection of the man who has stood by and
witnessed those Outrages, and when called
upon by the whole country to disavOw
them and punish the rascals who perpe-
trated them, he treats the demand with
contempt and maintains them in their
places and assumes thereby the response
bility of their acts. Tremendous applause
and cheers
l ask you TO say that you VIII no longer
affiliate with what is known as the Grant
Republican party, [Applause,l but detach
yourselves from that organization and be
the nucleus for the organization of great
political party, numbering in its ranks all
those people who are favorable to .cOnstitu-
tional liberty and constitutional govern
ment; [Applause.l a party which viii
bury beneath the rocks and rubbish
of the cOnvulslOns of the last few
years all the animOsities and passions
engenGered by them; a party which
will secure to every citizen the new rights
or privileges that have been conferred upon
him, and which will, at the same time, re-
turn and secure to every citizen who has
lost them the rights or privileges hereto
fore enjoyed, which will remove the
political disabilities, and rehabilitate them
as American citizens. Long and contin-
ued applause A party which will
secure to the national government an hon
est, efficient and nOn-partisan administra-
ton, which will select men for Office on
account of their fitness and capacity and
integrity, and not because they can be
efficient in serving the purposes or bending
their knees to the chleftain of some pO-
litical organization. Applause.] a par
ty which will secure to the respective
States the full exercise of all their legit-
innate functions, and instead of para
lying and destroying their governments,
the reserve power and authority
of the national government shall be
exercised to protect and maintain a legiti-
mate and independent State authority. I AD-
plausel A party which will make
no discrimination on account of the
color or race of an individual, nor
on account of wrongful or mistaken polit-
ical acts in the past, but which will COM
bine all these people into one great organ
izatiOn, with no other distinctive epithet
than that of an American citizen. This is
the party that / ask you to declare your
selves in sympathy with. This is the party
organization that we formed on the first
day Of May, 1872, in the city of Cincinnati,
and this is the organization which presents |
to the American people the name OF Horace |
Greeley, Applause. Of New York, for |
President. and BENJAMIN Gratz Brown. of |
for Vice President of the United |
States Tremendous applause. VIII |
you indOrse this platform, this or |
ganization and these standard-bearers |
Can any Republican in this audience /
say that Horace Greeley is not as good |
Republican as U. S. Grant, or any other |
man in this great nation! Is there any
man in this audience that can bring against |
Mr. Greeley any charge of dishonesty or !
want of integrity in any form; of the want
Of ability and fitness fer this position, or
that does not believe that his heart beats
sincerely and with as devoted
DulsatiOn Of sympathy for every man in
this country, whether he may have been a
rebel, or whether his skin is as black as mid
night darkness (Applause.l Why, Horace
Greeley was Republican before the birth of
he oldest man in this audience, and never
lad a sentiment, a thought or an emotion
hat was not in accordance with the great
cardinal principles advocated by the Re
publican party. He never did an act |
hat was not prompted by the highest pa
riOtism and the lOftiest humanity. ZAP
)lause. He never taught lesson to the
American people that was not full Of ear
lestness and sympathy, and for the good
# the country, and while he may have
rred and differed with some of our people
N mere questions of form, or means, or
low to do it, there never was an hour in
lis existence that he did not strive to ac-
Omplish the good that was demanded or
expected would be accomplished. He has
he hearts Of the masses of this country.
lie has their support, and, predict, in No
ember will have their votes. [Applause]
md of B. Gratz Brown what have we to
ay2 He has been a lifelong
Republican, was the advocate of
republican principles and of the Repub-
can organization from his bOyhOod; was
he founder Of the first Republican news
aper ever established in Missouri was a
older in the Union army; has served his
tate faithfully and creditably in the United
tntes Senate; was the leader Of the move
lent hv which Missouri was relieved from |