New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-07-31

Lieutenant Governor, says that be is in
formed the last United States census makes
the whites and blacks equal in numbers.
But how does it happen that the whites
never, under the most favorable circum-
stances, have ever voted anything near
equally The negro vote has never been
less than 10000 and has gone up to I1OUO.
These figures are not estimates, but facts
| AID ascertained results.
Ii we unite every white vote, there will
be still a considerable negro majority. But
have we under our control the white votes
1t NAV safely be said that the CustOmhOuse
controls 1000 white votes throughout the
State The RefOrmers claim largely, but
the best advices give them not 800 reliable
votes. WarmOth and his followers, IN
Guiding the host of office holders and his
personal friends. number 2OOU. Inc Ger
mans number 5000 votes, and the Liberal
party, excluding these, number over 10000
who have already declared for it. We have
thus 30. 900 white votes that there is every
reason to believe will not act with the
Democratic party in voting for its present
State ticket In this estimate we have
given the Liberals only 10000, hut we all
know that the rank and file OF the party
is going over to them by thousands, and
truly believe that at tie present speaking
four-dfths of the whites out Of New Or
leans have determined to Tepudiate the
narrow and prOscriptive ticket nominated
by the committees presided over by MessT5.
Lasere and Randolph respectively. How
many votes will that ticket receive in this
parish under the present circumstances l
state confidently in your presence what YOU
know, that it would not receive twenty-five
votes. And the same influence that governs
this outraged, prosecuted and despOlled
parish governs every other country parish.
But We have not only to obtain, before we
can succeed, every white vote except the
1000 CustOmhOuse followers and depend
ents, but we must have the aid and assist
ance Of a large number of our cOlored cltl-
Zrus To succeed we need the votes of 5000
intelligent patriotic cOlOred men. Can the
Democratic party hope to obtain them
The man would be crazy that would enter
tain the thought How can they be
obtained except through the aid Of the
Liberal Republicans and under the
name Of Horace Greeley, the best friend
the black man ever had Though in good
faith the Democratic party has determined
to protect and maintain the rights of the
cOOred people, yet for many causes they
IAistrust us, most unjustly, but still they
mIstrust US and will not vote for us or our
nominees. Therefore, if we wish TO sue
coed, and redeem our State and our race, !
we must leave the paths made dusty by our
Democratic funerals and take new de |
parture The country is in danger, and our |
than our party ties and OvertOps them. We |
have been and are prepared to sacrifice our |
lives for our country, and yet we hesitate |
to sacrifice our paitT-nO, not our party, |
but the fossils that claim TO be our party |
We follow the National Democratic Con |
yentiOn, which, in nominating Horace Gree |
ley, in effect proclaimed in Baltimore: Even |
let our party perish if need be, but let our |
country live!
Pardon me here if refer to myself. For
twenty wears | have been Democrat, and |
while during all that time have been a
worker for the party, advocating its prIn-
ciples III the halls of the rich and the cot
tages of the poor | have never had or
sought for office, nor have | ever handled
dollar of the public money. | claim, there
fore that my devotion was -unseltish, |
and born of the love | bore for the prin-
ciDles Of the party, and when | say to you
to-day that time and the sword destroyed |
the issues fought for by Democracy in |
the past, and that there IS nothing before
YOU at this time save the issues Of recon
and peace, aud honest and good |
government, | state but the uuvarnished |
truth, and all this is embodied in the Gin
cinnati platform. II ia therefore good |
enough for you and !, and while | advise |
all who are DESTROYS Of saving the State and |
country to act with the Liberals, can not |
accept the conclusion Of the central com |
inltIee Lldb IOE LulS 1 am IL AIdllOl " INV
grand old Democracy, for | bat follow in |
the footsteps of PendletOD, and Blair, and |
Seymour, and Hendricks, and the entire |
national Democracy. If this be treason, |
make the most of it :"
The Liberal party is party born of the |
necessities OF the times The Radical party, |
with hate aud corruption, |
threatens to build up personal govern
ment and imperialism, whose cemeDtIng tie |
is hatred to you, and is pledged to your de- |
struction, aud to the dOmIui il OF ignorance |
and the sword. The Democratic party, |
once powerful and great, was unable 10 |
stem this torrent of hate, because Radical |
ism appealed to sectional prtjudices and |
begOtten by the war. Amid |
this state of things, when all was darkness |
and gloom when oppression had become |
the rule, and the constitution and laws |
we're but as ropes Of sand, when the heart |
of the patriot had sank within him, |
and thinking men fO!esaw the speedy |
destruction Of the little that remains |
to us of liberty, Gratz Brown inaugurated |
the Liberal movement III Missouri Soon 1t |
attracted the attention of the good through |
out the land, and what was then but |
feeble ray of light amid the surrounding |
gloom is now efulgent with the beneteent |
beams of returning peace and good Will, |
until even the South, setting III desOlatlon
amid the ruins aud ashes of the past, is be-
guled of her sorrow and looks trustngly
and hopefully for the dawning of this bet
ter morning. The Liberal party promises
her peace; not the peace vOuchsafed by he
on horseback and the sword at Washing
ton. the peace OF destruction, the peace
given by the Russians to Warsaw and the
Poles, but genuine remembering peace,
born of good will and torgetfulness OF the
past,
II assures her that she siall hencetOrth
be permitted to conduct and regulate her
own affairs without the superintendent
and interference of the cleaning bayOnet
1t is proposed to put an honest and good
Greeley-at the head of the
government not an unb!ushing plunderer
and gift-receiver and immoral sot. 1t will
see that the treasury, and the money wrung
from yOu by the tax gatheTer, Is not used
to enrich military rings and wrttcbed ad-
Yenturers. IL will clear out the Augean
stables at Washington, and abolish a sys
tenn that has made civil service a resort for
thieves, and turned some Of the departments
OF the government into houses Of question
able repute. 1t will legislate for the good
of the whole country, aud not make Con
gress an engine of oppression that, while
it is kestowiug enormous gratultles upon
the North, is taxing its devllfsh ingenuity to
enact ku KluX and other laws to distress
and oppress Won. 1t will make the white
man and the black mantle men who wore
the blue and the men wore the gray-to
strike hands and march t. tie tune Of re
stored Union And it will make you and l
think that we have yet a country, and will
dry the eyes of the fearful South, turning
her sad gaze from the contemplation OF the
,mbappv past, and cause her to look alott
with returning hopes and blessings.
Are these things worthy of cOnsummation
and attainment Then join the Liberal
ranks.