New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-26

were now sustained by General Grant in
the CustOmhouse building on Canal street.
Grant had betrayed the confidence of the
Republican party, and under his manage
ment the party had been as effectualiy de-
stToyed as the armies of the Confederacy.
1t is about time that the military force
rule inaugurated by General Grant should
pass away-time that the people should say
to the soldiers:
Ground your arms and stand out of our
wayw [Applause.l
Ia this connection the speaker mentioned
an anecdOte which showed the position of
affairs. A party had been met by another
who said
''Stand out of the way; we're the repre-
sentatives of the people,"
''You stand out of our way was the re-
ply, 1--WE are the people ourselves
In this canvass the people told their rep
resentatives in like manner to stand out of
the way, they would run the institution
themselves. [Applause].
The ancient Democrats who advocated
the principle of going down with the flag
flying and the guns laundering rather than
surrender anything belonged to that class
Of men who had nothing to surrender.
The National Democratic party has done
nothing since the war commenced for the
peoples all that was left of what it had fin
ished were four hundred thousand graves;
nothing else. You can not submit to their
keeping the destinies of the nation. Neither
can you look TO the Republican party, as
controlled by Grant.
A vOice-No stree.
The above brief note of General Sheri-
dams speech serves only to show the line
followed in his address, which was favOra-
bly, entertained for one hour and half
BRAUGHN's ARGUMENT.
Mr.. George H. Braughn was called loudly
before the fOOtlights, and he came amid
loud cheers. The assembly here tonight
cOnclusively told him that in going to Gin
cinnati, instead of being rash, he was right.
The gathering tonight showed determi-
nation to sustain the Cincinnati cOnven-
ton and elect its nominees. With the OBJ
ject OF maintaining the principles of the
party, there had been a gathering equally
enthusiastic at Cincinnati-one that repre-
sented all quarters of our common country.
Here he read the platform of the Liberal
Republican party.
These are the principles you have been
called upon to subscribe. Is there a man
who can object! man who can add
thereto 1t is as broad as it is deep. Now
it may be said our opponents are willing to
accord the same privileges. How long has
it taken General Grant to find out the need
of general amnesty? Four years. None of
the enactments which conceded with the
platform were adopted until after the Gin
cinnati convention. The social equality
doctrine was embodied by the Grant dema-
gogues.
Should there be a separate ticket in Bal
timore the party will disObey the wish of
the leaders, and the nomination will not be
IN accordance with the wishes of the party.
The nomination of another ticket can only
be for the purpose or electing General
Grant. Those who want to nominate, cut
loose from them and let them go.
THE SENSE OF THE MEETING.
On the conclusion of Mr.. Braughn's re.
marks General d. w. Adams stepped for
ward, and read the following resolutions as
expressive of the sense of the meeting,
which, being put to the house, were unani- |
mOusly adopted:
WHEREAS, We, the citizens of New Or |
leans, without distinction of party, have as |
sembled in mass meeting to consider the pO- |
htical issues of the day in their national re- |
latiOns, and we deem it our privilege and |
duty to give an expression of our opinion |
on this occasion; and
Whereas, We find two political parties |
arrayed against each Other-the one, repre- |
sented by the present administration at |
advocating extreme radical |
ism and Capitalization, with strong and /
marked tendencies to military despotism |
while, on the other hand, we have presented |
by the convention recently assembled at |
Cincinnati a platform, conservative in all |
its principles, and advocating universal |
respect to State governments,
freedom from military rule and oppression,
a strict adherence to the constitution, and /
opposition to federal Capitalization and
Whereas, In the persons of Horace
Greeley, as a candidate for President, and
of B. Gratz Brown, for Vice President, we
have presented by the Cincinnati conven-
ton representative. and conservative men,
whose past records and lives, if elected,
give assurance of an honest capable and
faithful administration of our national af-
fairs; and
Whereas, We believe that third nomin-
alton, if made at the Democratic cOnven-
ton soon to assemble in Baltimore, would
endanger the chances for success of con-
principles; therefore, be it
l. ReSOtCed, That we indOrse and approve !
the resolutions or platform adopted at the
held in Cincinnati on the second
day of May, A. d. 1872, and the letter of
of Horace Greeley, as contain
ing sound and conservative doctrines, and
principles upon which all liberal
citizens can unite.
?. That we indOrse and approve the Sc
lection of Horace Greeley as a candidate
for President, and of B. Gratz Brown for
Vice President of the United States, and we
are willing cheerfully to accept and sup
port them as our candidates.
3. That under the existing state of
public opinion and political combinations
hose of us who are Democratic in senti-
nent and principles would regard it as un-
wise and ineXpedient for the National
Democratic Convention, which is to assem-
Die at Baltimore on the ninth day of July,
1872, to make any independent nomina-
ions or to adopt any antagonistic platform;
md we hope and trust that it may prove |
consistent with the views of all its members
% recommend the acceptance of the plat
Orm adopted by the Cincinnati convention,
md the hearty support of Greeley and
Brown, its nominees, to the Democratic
,arty throughout the country.
a. That the chairman of this meeting is
to appoint an executive commit
ee of twenty-One to carry out and advance
he objects of this meeting, as expressed
n the foregoing resolutions, and to assist in
organizing clubs, or to cooperate with other
in the State having the same
COMMON objects in view.
On motion of Colonel D. W. Wilson the
Meeting adjourned, and so put an end to
ne one of the largest meetings ever held
Il Louisiana for a similar purpose, as well
IS one of the most cheering and enthu-
iastic.
This Is from the New York Tribune:
From an anti Greeley source we learn
hat Ex-Governor HOratio Seymour has sig