New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-30

rived with drums beating and colOrs lying.
We did not propose TO have any of that
IN ours, continued Judge Caldwells
A voice-Vote for Greeley.
Judge Caldwell-He can't run the ma
chine, my friend. Stand off the platform
when the cars come by. l don't propose
that the State government shall be run in
the interest of the CustOmhOuse, nor that it
shall be ruined by that interest. The worst
enemies General Grant has are now in the
CustOmhouse.
A voiee-Can't swallow him.
You'll have to swallow worse men than
he-the Customhouse, replied the speaker,
and then said, if you don't like General
Grant say so.
Loud cries of no.
Now, tell you if General Grant has any
friends in this meeting
Loud cries of no-yes
A vOiee-O, go long home.
We propose to repudiate the movement
of the convention at Baton Rouge, shrieked
the Judge in frenzy.
A hOarse YOice-Hurrah for WarmOth.
Let me appeal to the German element by
the ties of their native country, by the ties
of their adopted country, to come forward
and support Grant
Cries of never. Sudden disappearance
of the speaker, and the throng on the plat
form closed in on him as the waves over a
stone.
Mr.. Wilson-You have heard from the
city and from the country. You will re-
member that at the surrender of Vieksburg
the generous terms of General Grant. Flu
riOus yells and jeers. The speaker alluded
to Grants magnanimity as witnessed at
Appomattox Court House, but was inter
rupted continually whenever he touched on
Grant, and he wound up in the introduction
of j. n. Perkins, bald-headed cOlOred man,
whose appearance was greeted with
chorus of jeers.
The voice of the speaker was bad one,
and the first interruption was from voice,
"Go home to China"
Mr.. Perkins kept pegging away at his
task. II don't believe" said he, "tha5 the
voice of the people was heard at Baton
Rouge. / firmly believe it. We are tired of
Mr.. Packard ruling us. We are tired of the
CustOmhOuse clique-tnOroughly tired. l
don't want any Office. five no ak to grind,
and I'll be id if want any Office at the
gift of the CustomhOuse We don't want
any more of this internal gOuging. You
talk about Warmoth-[a tremendous crowd,
5000 present you may bet your life that
Kellogg will be defeated at the next cleo
ton. We want no more stuthng."
You'll find that the State of Louisiana is
not confined in that great big granite build
ing. Now I leave General Grant in the
hands of his friends, and if his friends don't
take becter care of him than the people in
the CustomhOuse, God pity him.
1t was a sheer impOssibility to hear the
remarks of the speaker from the number of
ieers and jibes from the vast crowd in front,
and a whirlwind of jeers arising, the speaker
was swept off to his seat.
Mr. Wilson had no better success, as he
took the stand and said that he was glad
Mr.. Greeley had the confidence of the
Southern people for he was lifelong Re-
publican.
He closed pretty speech BY the intro
duction of Mr.. Newman, of Straight Uni
versity, who, after an introduction in similar
terms to a schOolbOy composition, read the
following resolutions:
WHEREAS, The fundamental principle of
free government is that government Origi-
mates from, by and tor Che people; and as a
eorrOllary to this principle it is true it is
the inherent right of the people freely to
select their rulers, and whatever tends to
overawe the popular wish is TO be deplOred
and denounced; and,
Whereas, At the recent State convention,
held at Baton Rouge, the lamentable spec
tacle was presented of set of federal Off
GERS taking possession of the convention,
and, by artifice, by intimidation, by threat
of loss of position, and by promise of gain
of positions, controlling the action OF the
convention in the interest of a clique, and,
in the interest of said CLIQUE preventing a
proffered reunion of the party, and thwart-
ing and strangling the choice OF the Repub-
lican people, and fOisting upon the Repub-
lican party a ticket headed by the Hon. W.
P. Kellogg, which is, from the manner of
its selection, revolving to the convictions of
the great Republican party of this State,
and will, in our opinion, be attended with
defeat; and,
Whereas, S. B. Packard, United States
marshal, james III. Ingraham, surveyor of
the port of New Orleans, were chiefly in
strumental in perpetrating this high-handed
outrage, and were therein aided by James
F. Casey, collector of said port, all being
largely effected by them through the
patronage derived from the President of
the United States; and
Whereas, The interests of the President,
as candidate for reelection, and the inter
ests of the Republican party in this State
and elsewhere, have been trihed with, and
put in jeopardy; therefore,
RESOLVED, That in the interest of Republic
anism, and in the interests of his success
for reelection, and as rebuke to such un-
worthy use of patronage, so derived, the
President be requested to remove Messrs.
Packard, Ingraham and Casey from the
federal offices which they respectfully hold,
and to appoint successors who Will admins
thereto, in good faith, or will not thereby
interfere with the free action of the people;
and will not, by their action, tend to put
upon the State an oligarchy of irresponsible
federal officers.
Resolyed, That in order that the Republi-
can party of this State may be relieved
from the embarrassment which attends,
and the prospect of defeat which awaits us,
with the ticket so selected in the field, Mr.
Ill he Fo1 Ar,w F1vau 90
didate for the Governorshlp, to the end that
with candidate to be selected upon fair
principles, and by Just method, and with
the concurrence and cooperation of all the
Republicans of this State, the harmony and
triumph of the party may be secured.
RESOLVED, That committee, to consist of
twenty persons, be appointed by the chair
man of this mass meeting, to whom shall
be added the chairman of this mass meet
ing, to communicate with the President
upon the situation here, to confer with the
various Republican organizations, clubs and
committees throughout the various parishes
of this State, and TO take such action, either
by calling a convention or otherwise, as
will unite the Republican party Of this
State in a solid phalanx, and place it in a
situation which viii render easy glorious
success at the November election.
Mr. Wilson put the vote in the afirma-
tive, and the crowd answered without invi-
tation in the negative, and in a number OF
grOans. II
DR.. r. I. Cromwell vas next introduced,
and for long time was not heard, but che
waves of eOmmOtion being at last subdued,
a few sentences were Distinguished The
first part of his speech was devoted to
laudation of General Grant, and then to
comparison between him and Governor
Warmoth, to the favor of the former. Let
us call the Deonle foOefher and have new
convention" seemed 70 be the speakers
policy. A furious storm of groans arose
like the sea swept by an angry wind, and
an ag0 vvas tbravzn At Cromwell which