The weekly Louisianian., 1872-08-03


=. e fof. Not Gr.a. md Wilsoo,
nj Kslt4aE aud Ant.,ine. who are
nseliak 10 yos, conn i : xitl, yos:fi,s.
a,,d yotr childrrnis ri6ahA ((TrsG.
neaduos chesriae:) Iknsw would
eak voa after awhii !. Several
voices-You's got us dis time.l
Now, my f,isnds. 1 told you once
before tl,st il you l,st coatrol Of the
State government the frat thing
that would 30 down would be your
school system. I see some me,,
here that I know have children, and
I need not tell them, at least, that
the nearest thing TO . mans OF wo-
man, heart il the wslfare.of their
children. II You have such laws as
will give your children the .oppor-
tunity fpr an education that will TT
them to occupy = better position in
this life than the one You now fill,
and You know that this right has
been secured to- them by your ef-
forts, YOU will hsve done your
whole duty to them, and feel all the
pride that comes Of a sense Of duty
well performed, and 60 down to
your graves happy and contented.
But II, BY your divisions, the enc
mics Of our party should triumph,
andonr school laws go down, though
your children will not To reminded
to slavery, the condition into which,
they wonll fall would be but little
Let me assure you there is
moro danger ahead now than there
was two years ago, or at any time
since the passage OF the reconstruc-
ton acts, for you are in danger OF
even your constitution.
Governor Pinchback has told you
how the Cu1tomhoase ring has re-
point blank 10 unite with rs
aud how they even turned men out
Of thsis own convention" in order to
tho success Of their selfish
alma We have always been anxious
for Republican unity, and in, order
to secure it our convention went to
Rouge for the sole purpose
Of making = last appeal, in order
that reconciliation might be brought
and the party saved from de-
They refused to unite,
because ii our convention had as
sembled with theirs the schemes Of
the ring would have been overthrown
"A voice And Billings would have
been nominated for Governor. We
had no candidate at Baton Rouge.
We were only seeking to unite the
and had no candidates
The. Kellogg ticket can not be
elected, because in old times it took
the votes Of the entire Republican
party to insure success. Since this
II tho oase, how do these men expect
/ carry their ticket when the half
Of their own convention was driven
away BY their frauds and malpFac-
t;ces, and the whole OF our. .eonven-
ton was barred out. tell you my
friends the Baton Rouge ticket %
not = Republican ticket; ind gentle
men who were in that convention,
men like Colonial Carter,
Ar. Mary and Mr. Billingsy assure
10 it IL mot aad ak us
in our conventionto.present . bet
ter ticket, that all, the Republicans
Of the State can vote for. ]
Ihave said Ill I had to say, ex-
cept ono thing. You have been
told that some of US were not for
Grant. Now, If / can help
To-. win Republican success in this
State by going for General Grant, l
I'm going for him.
Politics don't stand still; men
move, parties move; parties change,
and q great change has come over
the minds Of the American people.
I remember the time when the party
Of progress in this country was the
that insisted on the: emanci-
patton Of the slaves, and the party
Of conservation insisted ON keeping
WHARF il wa. The war was
not made to abolish. slavery. re-
member when Abraham Lincoln
and his party insisted that If the
could be saved without dis
turbing slavery to save it in that
way, and It took two years Of dir.
astrous wal 70 educate Mr.l4fn-