New Orleans Republican., 1872-06-29
ACTION oP REPUB1roAN OLUBs.

The Third Ward Club, known as the
Colfax Guards, and the Sixth Ward Radi-
cal Republican Mother Club, met on
Wednesday evening last, and took decided
action against the nominations made at
Baton Rouge by the Customhouse conven-
tion. The proceedings we're published in
the REPUBLICAN yesterday, signed by John
Keller, president, and E. Keating, secre-
tary, of the Colfax Guards; and F. P. Ben
edict, president, and Alfred Capla, secre-
tary, of the Sixth Ward Radical Repub-
lican Club.
The Colfax Guards met in Clay Hall,
and the meeting is represented as large
and enthusiastic. The preamble and reso-
lutions are well written, and mean bust
ness The preamble sets forth the follow
ing bill of Indictment Whereas, James
H. Ingraham and S. B. Packard, delegates
to the State convention at Baton Rouge,
by their traitorous conduct at said con-
vention have proved themselves recreant
to the instructions confded to their care by
too trusting constituency and, in view
Of their glaring treachery and falsity to all
principles and traditions of the Republican
party and it also appearing that the
said James H Ingraham and S. B. Packard
have labored more for their own individual
advancement than for the good of the Re
publican party and their constituents !;
therefore, be it resolved, etc.
The resolutions that follow denounce
and repudiate as traitorous and dishonora-
BILE the conduct of Messrs. Ingraham and
Packard in the convention, and they are
branded as unworthy political aspirants,
and the nominations made by said conven-
ton repudiated, and Mr.. Kellogg, its nom
inee for Governor, denounced as a traitor
to the Republican party. And in eonsid-
Grafton of their dishonorable conduct in
the matter of selecting candidates, the
Colfax Guards call for the removal of
Messrs. Packard, Casey and Ingraham
from the positions they hold under the fed
eral government.
Nor is the action of the Sixth Ward
Radical Republican Club less forcibly de-
clared against what has been done by the
same offenders. This club denies that
the convention represented the Repub-
hcan party Of Louisiana, and asserts that
it was packed by the most outrageous
tyranny and corruption, in the interest Of
the Customhouse, and so controlled by
fraudulent means as to prevent its honest
majority from forming union with the
representatives of the regular Republican
party, who were then also holding a con-
vention for the purpose of endeavoring to
harmonize the discordant elements of the
party It is alleged that after refusing all
honorable offers of compromise with the
regular Republicans, the Customhouse
convention nominated johnson Demo-
crat for Governor, Mr.. Kellogg, who swore
that in the massacre Of 1866, at the Mechan-
les Institute, tine rebels were peaceable
and the negroes were the rioters; who, as
collector of the customs, filed the Gus
tomhouse with Democrats, and did not for
o long time employ a single colored man;
and who, lastly, lodged the vote on Sum
ner's civil rights bill This is the picture
of Mr.. Kellogg, drawn by the Sixth Ward
Radical Club, and its description of Mr.
Antoine is Just as correct. He is repre-
sented as one of the Wilderness" SEN
ators, who conspired to overturn, by revo-
lutionary means, a Republican State gov
ernment.
The action of these Republican clubs
shows up the feeling that is entertained for
the Customhouse clique that has been en-
deavoring, through the patronage of the
federal government, to foist themselves
upon the people of this State as
their rulers. Nor was this all their am
bihon coveted. They hoped, also, to
carry the State of Louisiana for Grantism
next fall.