New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-01

st. MaBy-A. j. Sypher. Judge Henry
Train, Isaac Sutton, Milo Garrison.
St. TammRny-H. G. Kinohin.
TangipahOa-Jam6s BuokhOlten, Peter
Grigsby-
Tensas-E. w. Robinson, j. r. Winston,
S. Cammack, John Virgins.
TerrebOnHe-JOseph Dupart, James Red
man, w H. Eeigs.
UniOnr-NO delegates.
VermiIion-J. A. BroOIsshuU
WashingtOn-JOh Ii. Morse, L. +. Loan.
Winn-A. Blanchard.
Webster-E. X. Reese, g. B. AbercrOm-
bic.
Orleans, first ward-Geonge G. NOrcrOss,
j. C. Miller, T. w. Wickhaml
Second ward-J. L. Herwig, Benjamin
Gadds. Peter LightfOOt.
Third ward-GeOrge Devizan, w. G. El-
iOt, G. b. Ladd, John Purden, N. J. Crow.
Fourth ward-Dr. Z. T. Creamer, z. /.
Cromwell.
Fifth ward-H. I. Jean, D. z. FerAan-
de2. NJ. Campo, Fl. Bertrand.
Sixth ward-Julps Frichs, Eugene Staes.
Seventh ward-h. G.. ArtidOre, A. Denis,
"a. NJ. LEROY, A. Coils.
Eighth ward-A. II. Duhart, Oscar Nessie.
Ninth ward-ESham Nicholas, j. Fl. Bing.
Tenth tward-Battle Payne, Joseph H.
Wilson.
Eleventh ward-Ed. Williams, D. J.
Hutchinson.
Twelfth wards. Anderson.
Thirteenth Ward-JOseph Bottle.
Fourteenth ward-NelsOn d. Bush.
Fifteenth wards. B. Packard, Edmond
Jones, Samuel Green, William Russell.
The confusion and clamor broke out
agaiR aad afresA
Mr.. kinchin objected for half an hour to
the name of j. Bailey.
Mr.. Miller objected to the name of John
Gair, of FeEciana, and kept the floor, ges-
ticulating in the same violent manner
while loud cries of "Mr. Chairman" and
personal objections to Miller having the
floor, prevailed.
1t is impossible to report the confusion
undulating through the time of the con.
ventiOn it is simply indeseribable-a Babel
of tongues.
The president tried to enforce the point
that Miller had the floor until his five
minutes were out.
He's got the floor for an hour"
a. move he be accorded four hours to
speak, and that we adjourn while he's
speaking"
These and similar motions q multitude
rose. and were argued on all sides
My friend Miller here is a strOng-wOrk-
ing Republican one of the best we have"
He suggested the assembly accord Miller
the floor. which the body finally concluded
to do ; and Mr.. Packard, after saying that
appearance so far, sat down.
Mr. Miller stated as his firm purpose to
move that the name Of Mr.. John Gair be
stricken from the rolls and he vowed his
deliberate intention, If Mr.. Gair so desired,
to " meet him outside in mortal combat"
Matters were finally adjusted in a motion
to adopt the roll of delegates submitted by
the COMMITTEE, and that the convention go
into permanent organization, both of which
were carried in a universal uprOar.
Nj. c. c. Antoine was elected permanent
chairman, Mr.. j. II. Burch going through
the form of declining, according to the
previous rehearsals.
Mr.. L. NJ. Tweed was elected secretary,
and William Pfaf was elected assistant
secretary.
Mr.. William Mercer was elected sergeant
alarms, and it was adopted that the ser
geant-at-arms appoint as many assistant
sergeants-at-arms as might be necessary,
according to the custom prevailing in the
Carter light.
Mr.. George Randolph was elected door
keeper, and he to appoint assistants.
During these elections the gavel of the
president descended with as regular beat as
a pendulum, until it was no longer heard.
A hundred motions, contradictory each of
the other. we're made at one and the same
time, in the midst of which the voice of
Mr.. Joseph II. Wilson was Intellectual to
produce order. Some uncomfortable in
tluence operated on all of the delegates,
who were 'pints-Of-Ordering all over the
house, in the midst of which one of the
managers said:
FAKE the noisy ones and get 'em out
there"
This being accomplished, Mr.. Wilson of
fered a resolution providing for the ap-
pOintment of a committee of seven, who
should devise some means to bring about
an adjustment of the differences which had
previously divided the party. He felt
called upon to explain his motives. The
sins of all opponents in the previous strug-
giles be would have forgiven, and he would
bring about unity of the Republican party,
as tie enemy was on the track and on the
alert.
Mr. C. F. Ladd, on the floor, said: We
were not here as WarmOth or Carter men,
but as Republicans, and if all the elements
could be harmOnized it would be the great
est victory possible to achieve. Let us take
them by the hand and say that their sins
should be forgiven them. '::We, above all
men, have the greatest interest at stake if
we go Democratic"
The secretary read the resolution of Mr.
Ladd to the same purpose again, while
cries of 'lOuder, louder, louder, rang out
at all sides, the secretary at the same time
remarking, 1.-THE man who can't hear that
must be deaf"
Mr.. A. w. Faulkner, of Caldwell, rose to
speak, and the house for the first time since
the commencement was silent, and for the
first time listened to a speaker without in
terruptiOn. He committed himself to the
principle of harmOuizing the party, but he
said the resolution in question hung too
loosely together and to cure this defect he
would offer a new one.
The president worked the five minutes
rule and cut off Mr.. Faulkner in the prime
of a sentence.
Mr. Devezan was beginning to state what
Mr.. Faulkner was three months ago, when
the president cut him off.
1t appeared that the resolution of Mr..
Faulkner was that a committee of seven,
one from each congressional district, be ap-
pointed to confer with the committee of
which Lieutenant Governor Pinchback was
president, with the view of harmOnizing
the party.
Mr. j. H. Burch spoke to all the resolu-
tiOns in general, saying that the first breath
of peace in the ranks of the party was
waited here to-day in the room of the COM
mittee on credentials, where the lions and
lambs lay down together, aud old friends
met in the path of peace. He felt this to
be one of the prOudest moments in the his
tory of the party. "This is our sal TatiOn
and our fght-whether the proud bOOa
of freedom given to the cOlOred man shall
be lost on account of the war of personal
animOsities. He hoped not His was the
doctrine, While the lamps hold out to
burn, the vilest sinner may return" He
said Governor WarmOth had left the deck
of the ship of State and gone overheard.
"There is no use in looking for any defense
except among ourselves. Unite the party,
and there is no power in the State that can
divide it." i
When these few remarks were concluded,
the assembly succeeded, after a half hours