New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-07-26

Ailay themlV
And the majestic ULYSSES, in answer to
their Invocation, like King Canute OF old.
may plant himself upon the strand and
bid the waves be still. Vain effort, Amid
such tumult but one voice may be heard
it is the angry roar of the people denoune-
ing the doom of their wild justice upon the
head of the Oppressor and wrOng-doer
Assuredly. feIlow.citizens, the deluge Is
at hand which is to sweep General Grant
from the exalted seat he has deseerated'
Whittier it sweeps hun. whether to the
island of Ithaca, where his tricky name
sake once held sway, or back TO the long
neglected tan yard at Galena, matters little,
presume, to any one IN the hearing OF my
voice.
Accompany me now, if you please, while
we make a diagnosis of Jess enlarged, but
more chaotic field of political struggle. In
our own beloved State the mythical box OF
Pandora seems to have been opened, and all
the evil passions let loose within her Dor
ders Seven State conventions, representing
the yariegafed hues of opinion prevailing in
four independent political camps (all sworn
Reformers after their own fashion,, have
been held in this year of grace 1872, and
still the tangled skein is unraveled, the rid
die unsOlyed, how to evoke order and disci-
plined power out OF so much turbulence and
discOrd. Two more are yet to be held, viz:
the Liberal convention, on the fifth of Au-
gust, to which we are here to accredit dele
gates, and what is styled the Pinchback
convention, presided over by General Hugh
j. Campbell, which meets on the ninth OF
August This last has already held a ses-
sion in New Orleans and one in Baton
Rouge, and whatever opinion may be held
of its constituents or its objects, 1t has
shown a capacity for harmonious action and
patience in awaiting developments which
might have been initiated with immense
profit by some of its more impusive rivals.
There are as yet but two tickets in the
field. Early in August there will certainly
he one. possibly two, more. AS we are, for
the first time in our history, to vote on the
same day in November for federal, State
and parish officers, and the aggregate of
places to be filled numbers about forty, you
may form some idea Of the magnitude of
the duty assigned you, the complications
which hedge you in, and the extreme diff
Guilty of organizing a concerted movement
embracing in it's purview the three fields OF
struggle, federal, State and parish.
OF the two tickets already nominated,
neither seems to receive a hearty indOrse-
ment from the body of voters whose Opin-
ions they arrOgantly assume to represent.
The CustomhOuse ticket headed by w. Pitt
Kellogg, who has been styled the father of
arpet-baggers, seconded by G. G. Antoine,
lately a cOlOred Senator from the Shreve-
port district, notable chiefly for having
voted for every swindle which came up
during his term, has suffered fearful defec-
lions since it was fraudulently hitched up
at Baton Rouge. Weakened as it has been,
it is however, far from despicable. Backed
nv the patronage of the federal administra-
ton, and the powerful machinery Of the
Ku-Klux and election laws, it will in no
event bs easy to beat This is the ticket
- T. af nntt "a
a defeat SO calamitous to the State. that it
cannot lie contemplated without gloom and
shuddeTing. In a fair hsld-a hand to hand
grapple. we need have no mlSglvlDg5. The
Indications however, are that no such field
IL t, be left open to us
Within the last few days the DemOc ratio
ticket nominated al the Opera II Ouse, in
New Orleans, in JunP, has been remOdeled
by the executive committees Of the Demo
cratic and Reform parties Their combined
work is STYLED the united State ticket
With Colonel McEuerv, Uf OuaChita, and
b. f. Jonas, of New Orleans. who are as
signed the caudiddtur" for Governor and
Lieutenant Governor, | have the honor to
be personally acquainted, and | know no
wOrthier gentlemen / believe my personal
acquaintance extends 40 farther As in the
additional remarks which it is proposed to
submit to you the political attitude and
surroundings of this "uuIted State ticket"
will be the chief topic Of discussion it is as
wen perhaps, here at the threshold, to dis
claim all personal allusl1n.
You have been told the Liberal party
must defeat the Customh0use or heavy ca
lamities will ensue to the State. The ques-
ton will doubtless be asked, why does
this work devOlve alone upon the Liberal
party Why may it not De as well done by
the reunited Democratic party - An an
swer to this last question viii demonstrate
the truth of the affirmative proposition, and
albeit it may be but desIltory cOmmlng-
ling OF history, statistics and argument,
even at the risk of eNhaUstng your pa
tience, | will give it.
At the close of the war the Republican
party set to work, by series OF cOnstltu-
tiondl amendments and statutory enact
ments, to secure, as the phase goes, 1.-THE
results Of the war; Alarmed at the ad-
vance of ideas, deemed iIfimICal encrOach.
ments upon their rights, the entire white
race Of the South sought shelter under the
only banner then upheld III opposition to
the party in power Wings, KnOw-NOth-
iugs fire eaters, every shade of ante-bellum
political opinion, under the pressure of dire
full necessity, gathered under the protecting
folds of the old Democratic nag, which had
so long and so gallantly "braved the battle
and the breeze" Every measure of recon
structiOn, organic OF statutory, was in time
oppOsed by this hybrid coalition, and then
acuuiesced in. The segregation of one
race, superinduCed as a natural and newt
able consequence, a corresponding seggre-
cation of the other. The political lines
were drawn, not upon questions OF prn-
ciple. but upon the preiudices of caste.
From that time forth the Democratic party
has been an object of constant jealousy and
keen distrust 70 the cOlOred race Ii can
make no movement that its less educated
nd vrrsaries do not CpnstTue into an I'M
friendly assault, either covert or open, upon
| their rights and new found liberties.
! Since, then. it is manifest, as the success
! sor of the Old prU-slaverv party, as an in
! auLuratOT of war, the purpose of which
! was to perpetuate slavery, and as the pO-
| litical organization which opposed terCelg
| all the constitutional amendments it can
! only take the field as the representative of
| caste, and can not hope for aid outside Of
| the race 1t assumes to represent. A glance
/ at the census Of 1870 may materially aid us
! in computing its chances tor success. We
/ find there a majority 300 OF the total pop
uarion in favor OF the enfranchised race
! The difference Ia apparently small 1t is
/ larger however, than it looks. In the reg
! istration the cOlOred race has an inappreci-
| able percentage in the fact that no records
| of births exist among them and the reqW-
! site twenty-one years, while SUSTAINED by
i proofs, resting upon nothing better than
! loose tradition and defective memory, can
! be disproved iii bat few instances. Add,
/ too. to their total the stream of immigra-
] ton for two wears from Virginia and the
! older States, and il viii be a safe assump-
4 ton TO take six as the dIyisor of tie white
! total and five as the diyis II of the colored
] total The relative vote OF the two races
uscerIaiued upon this basis would be:
4 White G0.3i4: cOiOrud - Sl-i cOlured aIla'