New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-13
substitution therefor Of Hon. P. B. S. Pinch

| STATE congressional anu HI6cBOEdl llchGJs
| All Of which is most respectfully submit
ted. A. B. HARRIS,
Chairman. Committee con Conference.
L. Z. BENTLEY, Secretary.
When the name of Mr.. Lewis was reached
| in the reading, Mr.. Brown, of the thirteenth
ward, Orleans, remarked: why, he is the
/ only honest man ON the ticket"
Mr.. Harris moved to adopt the recon
| mendaticn of the committee.
Mr.. Swords, Of Assumption, moved that
the following be adopted as a substitute:
Re8olred, That we, in behalf of ourselves
1 and those represented by us, members OF
| the Republican party, duly appreciating the
| services and patriotism of those leaders to
| whom Republicanism owes largely its sue
| cess. and we our political and civil rights,
| do hereby tender TO Charles Sumner, Hor-
ace Greeley, N. Banks, and their com
| peres, our thanks for the good work done,
/ and express our unabated confidence in
1 their integrity as Republicans.
| ReSOlyed, That we do now accept as the
] platform of this convention the platform of
! the Cincinnati convention, and we indorse
! the presidential ticket put forth by said
Convention, accepting Horace Greeley and
| B. Gratz Brown as our standard bearers in
| the approaching national contest.
ReS0tred, That any Endorsement of the
| Customhouse ring would be base sur
render of principle and self respect. ANY
| coalition with them would drive from US
| the large body of white citizens who are
ready to Join US on Republican basis, and
to defend. our liberties and rights, and
would bring about division in poIiticsup-
/ on the line of white and black, and that
such course would be destructive to our
people and injurious to the whole State; and
that for these high and urgent reasons we
do now indorse, ratify and nominate as our
ticket the ticket nominated August. 9 and
10 by the Liberal State Convention, aDddo
urge upon all our people to support and
vote for it.
Mr. Campbell took the floor, but was in
terrupted by the mob till it was impossible
for him to proceed.
Mr.. Pinchback finally called the excited
rabble. to order, asking for fair play for
every speaker, and said that in proper time
he would respond.
Mr.. Campbell then took the floor in sup
port of the resolutions of Mr.. Swords, and
delivered an eloquent and logical address.
SPEECH OF LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR PINCH
BACK
Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen of the
Conventional have listened with strict
attention to the remarks of the gentleman
who preceded me General CampbelD. l
agree with him fully in much that he has
said, and differ with him on some points,
~
the whole Of his speech. >.
In order that may stand before the peO-
pie of this State in the light | desire to be
in-in the light wish to present myself-it
will be necessary for me to go back little
in the political history of this State. On
the ninth of August, one year ago, we had
a disruption of our party, on the occasion
of the assembling of the State convention
The delegates were divided; part of them
remained in the Customhouse and part of
them went to Turner Hall, and both of these
factions proceeded to organize what each
claimed to be the regular. Republican party
of the State, and struggle for supremacy
ensued.
We, on the Turner Hall side, claimed
that we were labOring under difficulties,
arising out of the action of the federal Off
cials, and we appealed to the, President of
the United States for relief. Wesent com
mittee, of which l was member, to wait on
the President, to explain our rOubles and
that committee failed to accomplish any
thing, and we returned home. Last winter
another desperate struggle was made by the
two factions, or rather by one of the fac
tions, to get the other out of the con-
troll Of the State Government and to get
themselves in. Things were done during
that time that no man can say
We had not just right to complain of.
Afidavits were. made by members of the
House of Representatives against the Gov
ernor, Lieutenant Governor and several
members of the General Assembly for their
arrest We thought that when fair and
impartial statement of these grievances was
made to his excellency, the President,
he would remove the guilty persons and
give us q chance to unite the party Rep
reservations. setting forth all the facts were
made to him by Senator'S, and by at least
one or two memb bers of Congress; but all to
no effect. He. would not remove them. Of
course that makes a heavy count against
General Grant from our side of the
heuse But the evils which beset 'us,
the troubles and difficulties under
which we labored, we're not confined to
Louisiana In many of the other
States the same troubles were complained
of. Federal interference was becoming
common in the other States, and was car
ried to such san extent that it was found
necessary to take some steps to check it,
and correct the abuses growing out OF it.
To this end many of the most influential
and best men of the country determined on
the creation of new party, and issued a
call for a convention. Those Republicans
who approved of the purposes which the
original movers inathe Liberalparty had in
view, met at Cincinnati and adopted plat
form which they thought would correct
these evils, but that if it did nothing else
would defeat General Grant forthe nOmt
nation at Philadelphia. Well, the Phila-
delphia convention met and without pay
ing any attention to what had been done at
Cincinnati, proceeded to nominate General
Grant by aeclamatiOn, an act which, If my
knowledge of the political conventions OF
this country is correct, is without prece-
dent except in the case of the father of his
country, George Washington.
Now, feel as sore against General Grant ]
as anybody, and think it is not his fault
that was not murdered last winter, as.
was one of the members of the House of
Representatives Yes, murdered cut off in
the very bloom of his youth through the
instrumentality Of these people VINO. had
caused all our troubles if not by their di-
rect order / thought when the Liberal
Republicans met at Cincinnati and nOmi-
mated Mr., Greeley that it was liberal
movement in spirit as well as in profession,
and that it would bring about the result so
glowingly described by the gentleman who
preceded me General Campbelll.
In this State another party had sprung
up; it was known as the Reform party,
and in speaking of it propose to
state the facts plainly. / say there sprung
up in. this city q party, and it spread
the State, organized under the
name Of the Reform party. 1t made and
adopted platform of principles which no
man, disposed to be just, black or white,
could complain of; platform that guar
anteed the black man every right which
the laws have given him, and one which
was sustained both by their press and
orators, one of whom, Mr. Marks, went
further than the platform, and said ne was
not only willing to accogd the black man
his civil rights, but his public ones as well.
was asked to go INTO this Reform party,
and many OF my friends were asked but /