The semi-weekly Republican. (St. Francisville, La.) 1872-1872, 1872-08-09

mlttee on fOfelBn relations, and had
him removed by an unconstitutional
interference with q coordinate branch
Of the government, though he knew
he was degrading the best foreign
Secretary the nation ever had to put
in his place the worst it was possible
to Get His personal resentments
are too numerous to mention, while
his personal ambition to be remoni-
mated gave the Cincinnati movement
its strongest hold upon the people.
When he insulted and, through his
minions, degraded Mr.. Sumner the
hilltops of New England began to
grow gray with his political destiny !;
when his ambition led him into an
unconstitutional interference with
San Domingo tho nation became
alarmed at his usurpations, and when
he cut off the official heads of all
but sycophants and deceivers the
people began to practice the person.
alities he taught them. Then per-
sonalities returned to plague the in
ventor.
Let me illustrate as to his ambi-
ton. When a minister finds one
third Of his church opposed to him
he ought to resign. If he is right
his church will find it out and he
can go back if he likes. If he is
wrong it is difficult for him to find it
out under the daily reports and Off
ciousness Of his heated partisans.-
So he is likely to plunge deeper into
wrong. A government is much more
sacred than q church. It conserves
the institutions Of q country, the
churches included. If, therefore, the
people saw one-third of the Repub-
lican party so far dissatisfied at Gin
cinnati as to nominate a Republican
ticket for the purpose Of putting an
other man in the Presidents seat,
ought not this third Of the party to
be credited with as much unsel6sh-
ness in trying to get one man out as
he is credited for trying to stay in,
especially if, when you come to can
vass their moral and mental make
up, you find as many original Aboli-
tionists and clear-headed men at
Cincinnati as you find advocating
the nomination and reelection of
Grant !?
The nation knows how his broth
in-law, under Packard's direction,
mobbed the colored people out Of
the Customhouse at New Orleans
last August, fianked us with United
| States soldiers and bearded us with
United States bayonets. But it may
not know that at Baton Rouge, q few
weeks ago-a place to which the
convention adjourned from New Or
leans because there was garrison
of soldiers there-colored men were
denied their seats in the convention
where they were known to be intelli-
gent and independent, and other
colored men, the servile tools of the
Customhouse, were seated in the
places Of delegates from the country
parishes. I was one Of these dele
gates. It was admitted that I had
a right to my seat, and the president
invited me to the stand to explain,
when Packard sent the president-a
simple-minded young colored man
a word, and I was dragged from the
hall because I persisted in asserting
my rights in a Republican meeting.
When Grant retains such men he
becomes responsible for their con-
duct.
Now. sir, the colored people know
Greeley as an original Abolitionists.
In the North they know him to be a
staunch Republican and an honest
man. They know that Gen. Grant
knows nothing about abolition ex-
cept as he opposed it in the Demo-
cratic ranks. He knows nothing
about our great men or he would
have been as obstinate in trying to
send Frederick Douglass as minis
ter to some great power as he was in
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