The weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1872-1882, 1872-09-14

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ley my vote would elect. Applause
But l don't know. But I say "
are not left to the professions {
= men and the platforms Of parties t
determine what is wise and what
best in this canvass. These partie
have their history. Weare to judg
Of them in the light of history an
I apply TO them the rules of commo
D sense. We know very well wha
the Democratic party has done; "
> know very we'll what the Republican
t party hos done. We need not &
J, back far into history to arrive a
sound conclusions concerning them
| Take the Democratic party for tht
{ last thirty years, and what has i
, done to you and me and the race
with which we ore Unidentified. Yor
know as well as I know that the
vital and animating spirit Of tha'
party from tho first until now has
been the interest hate, scorn and
contempt of the race to which We
belong. Cries of "true."]
We know that forty years ago ii
allied itself with the late master
class of the South. The four hun
dred and fifty thousand Shareholders
became their voice and their instru-
ment for evil during all that time,
and that even during the great SAN
culinary rebellion which, under the
captaincy of General Grant Zap
plause) backed up by the boys in
blue-we know that that party, rs
a party, had no Joy in our victory,
no grief in our disasters. That par
ty throughout gave aid and COM
fort to tho rebels, and before the
close of the rebellion it indicated
it's regret for the late master-class
of the South by selecting for it's
standard-bearers and representa-
tives OF it's spirit, the only General
with large opportunities to assist in
the loyal cause, who accomplished
little or nothing for the cause, and
who was the most popular general
in the army on the rebel army
George 3. Mcclellan. It selected
him to be it's standard bearer, put
him on the platform, affirming that
the war for the Union was accom-
plishcd. We met Mcclellan as we
shall meet other people by and by.
Laughter
A partial reconsideration took
place and slavery was abolished.
The Fourteenth Amendment MAX
ing us citizens was enacted. It be-
came q part of the Constitution.
What then. In 1868 they gave us
a new platform. What was it, and
who was its candidates. You re-
member well. They selected the
man OF all men at the North who
had most industriously ana perser-
veringly anl indefatigably opposed
the war for the Union in tho nomi-
nation of Horatio Seymour, a man
who addressed q mob in New York !
during the rebellion-a mob whose
hands were bloody with blood of
the innocent black children and OF |
the innocent black men in New
York-addressed them as friends,
not as murderers. He was select
ed; that was the tendency of the
party, and what it means to do
when it gets into power. What is
its platform Why, it was this.
The benefcent measures of justice
to humanity and equality which
have been incorporated into the
Constitution of the United States
are unconstitutional, revolutionary,
and null and void; and that is the
mind of the party, and has been
until within the last few months. It
now processes to hare met with a
change of heart-to be born again.
Laughter. 1t now asks us to re-
:eive them into full communion
With the politica! saints. Laugh
;er.] Well, for my part, I distrust
hat conversion. I know human
nature we'll enough to know that
people who have been thinking and
lcting in any one direction as the
Democratic party has been think
ng and acting, cannot easily be
changed on an instant I know
hore ';ayo been instances of in
conversions, and I be-
ieve t:s9;T. IN some cases. We read {
# one vilich was quite instantan- :
'ous in the Scriptures. The story
# Saul who was converted and the
;reat light that prevailed was visi,
lie to his attendents. But I don't {
now about this conversion of the I
Democratic party, or that they have
cen a1y such light. I am afraid j,
he light that has dawned upon the
Democratic party didn't come from K
'bove. Laughter: There is a voice t
nd there is light, no doubt, and a i
,ood deal of It, but I doubt where .
came from. (,
1 want to know when the Demo-
ratio party met with its change. Y
)ur good friend, Charles Sumner, q
those name should only be men, b
ioned with respect for the past, be- 5
eves that party has been converted.