New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-16

] before the law, and they did not; so 1 GOuLu
| accept no office, without sacrificing prlncl-
| pie. and if would not sacrifice a sacred
! principle then, in the strength of youth,
| when power could be enjoyed, how can l
do it now, when age is coming on me and
! | soon will finish my course here, such as it
| is / couldn't do it then, and l can't do it
now; and if anybody tells you so, don't
you believe it. L speak now to the black
men, and tell you that the Radicals don't
! love you any more than other men do.
| They merely want offices, and think to get
| them by your votes. Why, here was an in
| telligent and cultivated eOlOred mani al
! lude to Mr. Davis-whOse friends desired
! to announce him for sheriff, but, although
| the call on him-as [ am Intermediates
! sent to the Statesman office by a responsible
party, yet they refused to publish it.
| There are but few white Radicals will
not say Republicans, but from henceforth
will call them Radicals or Grant
| ites-there are but a few white
| Radicals in this county. The cOlored men
| hold the balance of power, and If these
| Radicals love you, why don't they give you
| a share in the offices. | am not for DIR.
! Davis, although 4 have no doubt that he
! has more manners than most OF the white
! Radicals in this county. l simply say, If
| they love you, why don't they give you
| offices! / don't pretend to love you better
Lu3u 4 love the WulIG EdCey IOI GllA 1U L. iJO-
| critic; but if they love you, why don't they
elect the man they love to the office OF
| sheriff? But no! they even would not pub
| lish DR.. Davis name. Ii l misrepresent
/ them, let the Statesman men come right out
and correct me. l know they are now
| sneaking round the outskirts of the crowd
| somewhere. | would be glad to hear from
! them now, and it might be as it was at
| NichOlasville. There they sent colOred
man to answer me, and he came with his
| speech all written out but he never spoke
| it. l have since heard that | convinced
him. and he intends to vote for Greeley /;
! but, any how, he didn't answer me.
Now, you have been told that Greeley
was Democrat and Grant was your friend.
Let us see how that is. When it was not
safe to speak in your favor at the North,
when men were mObbed for it in Boston,
Just as l was in Lexington, and were killed
in the streets of New York because they
were AbolitiOnists. then LOveiOy was put
to death down there close to Grants place,
and others were mObbed and hung here and
there; but did Grant say anything for you =!
Did he speak out for LOvejOy, or Garrison,
or Tappanl Not a word; but old Horace
Greeley was not afraid to speak, and he did
speak. Let us look a little further on, and
look closely, for this is a most important
election; all the parties are disOrganizing;
a GAdLRC Is IlLAEl1uCuG5 anu ,yOA AAOASV AAHAO
no mistakes in the new departure you are
about to take. When the most of US
held that the States could hold
slaves just as they could hold any
other property; that when a Shareholder
carried one Of you to free State he could
own you still, just as he could own horse;
then Horace Greeley, as well as myself, held
that the State laws were only local, and
that, according to the constitution, all who
were under the American flag we're free so
soon as they passed the border of a free
State But Grant never said a word for
you then. And when Fremont was put up
as candidate for the Presidency in 1856,
when | voted for him, and Horace Greeley
voted for him, Grant voted for Buchanan.
Grant was Democrat then, just as he is
now. Yet they will tell you to distrust me
because / was a Democrat and Horace
Greeley was a Democrat; but when they
say such things about me merely say. in
the blunt, honest tones of old Horace, You
lie, you lie, you lie, you villain"
In 1910 Greeley voted for Harrison, in
1874 for Henry Clay in 1913 for General
Taylor, in 1852 for General Scott, in 1856 for
Fremont, in 1860 for Abraham Lincoln; and
Grant did not vote for one of these, but
voted the Democratic ticket all the time,
when he was sober enough to vote at all.
In Grants own State, Illinois, l couldn't
get into the State House to make an aboli-
ton speech. The Speaker had gone off and
lost the key, and l had to get candles and
speak, as best / could, outside. All this
time Grant was voting against you and your
liberties. Isn't that SO, Statesman If it
is not, just correct me now, or forever after
hold your peace. Grant never expressed
an opinion in favor of black man until he
was elected President.
In 1862, when came here by the secret
appointment of President Lincoln, to negO-
tate and try to bring the men of Kentucky
over to the Union cause, and to proclaim
liberty to the slaves, told them all that the
slaves must be freed, that if they were not
freed there was no justice in the war, and |
did not dare to be in favor of it if it was not
Just. Then while Grant was rObbing the
Southern people, and sending fugitive
slaves back into slavery, then Horace Gree
ley was with me in sentiment although
from motives of policy, as che editor OF a
great newspaper, he could not say so, as he
wished to do. In Kansas, too, Grant was
against you, and Greeley was for you, and
Grant never was for you up to the civil
war. He went in that, like many others,
not because he thought you ought to be
freed, but because he wanted the Union
preserved. There were then two issues,
Union and slavery, and as for me, didn't
care d-n for the Union with slavery.
We must have now a general amnesty;
the whites must have their freedom as well
as the blacks. 1t is true that Lin
coin was elected in 1860, but yet the other
three candidates had a majority of the
popular vote; and there never was yet a
time-at least we have no authentic proof
of it-when a majority of the whites were
in favor of the black mans liberty. Lin
A L. 4 /
Why didn't we run Horace Greeley, or Mr..
Julian, or some other AbOlitiOnist then
Because we knew we were in a minority,
and had to get some man who was not an
Old-time AbOlitiOnist, because, since we
didn't have the power, we had to use policy
to elect our nominee. Mr.. Lincoln, it is
true, was an honest man-sOmething that
can not be said of our Offiee-hOlders now,
for they hate the woodland after he was
elected he did get to be a pretty good AbOl-
itiOnist; so we elected him again in 1864.
But was Grant for him then2 What do
you say, Statesman?
Mr. CLAY here went on to show that Grant
had never been friend to the negro; that
he was always a Democrat, and that the
Democrats would have nominated him if
the Republicans had not done so in 1868:
that he was nominated simply because the
party needed his "gunpOwder popularity"
that after he came into office he selected
Democrats to fill the responsible positions
around him, taking the son of Stephen A.
Douglas for private secretary and Fish for
Secretary of State; surrounding himself
with such men as Stewart, Bore, etc, and
forming personal party who only cared
for themselves and General Grant, and who
could only exist in corruption and usurpa-
tiOn."
He then went into the policy of Grant to-
ward Cuba, saying that he was on the side
of Spain, and would not recognize the lib
artv of the Cuh9n naurnps who bad boaD