New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-04
MAN AND TEN HORSES BURNEI
PRIZE FIGHT THIS MORNING
LOUISVILLE.

| The Observation-Disclosures DuncHnss ADJ
dress-The Temporary Organization
| Speech of the Presiding Officer-Letter
from Charles O'COnor.
New YORK, September 3.-Louisville spe-
cials say if 0'Conor will stand the ticket
will be 0'Conor and j. O.. Adams or
| Adams and Hancock.
.Very much curiosity is manifested to as
! certain the contents of O'COnor's letter,
which was written Saturday and given to
| an Apollo Hall delegate, to be opened after
| the convention comes to order.
Judge Flanders, of New York, has pre-
pared platform which he will present to
| the convention. 1t is thoroughly States
rights in ltsstOne.
Considerable difference of opinion and
warm discussion is anticipated over the
| platform.
Edgerton or Fitch are spoken of for Vice
| President in case Hancock and Adams de-
| cline the nomination.
| LOUISVILLE, September 3.-The National
| Democratic Convention met to-day in
! the Common Pleas COuru room OF
| the courthouse. Previous to and dur
| ing the assembling of delegates, the
| Second Regiment national band Of Phila-
| delpbia. played various airs. At about one
| o'clock Colonel Blant0n Duncan called the
! convention to order. The Rev DR.. Platt
| addressed the throne Of grace in prayer
| for concord and peace and freedom from
| sectional jealousies throughout.
Colonel Duncan then spoke as follows:
| Gentlemen of the conventional is my
| duty to call this semblage order. It's OBJ
iects are well known, and require no ex-
PLANTATION. We. have been derisiYely
| characterized as boilers, mercenaries, etc,
| bv editors and politicians, who have sought
! an alliance with faction OF the Radical
party. and who have abandoned all prin-
eciples which have hitherto characterized
our organization. 1t is not my province to
cast reflection upon the motives OF these
leaders in whose wisdom and judgment we
! unfortunately cQntded, but their action is
invalid and void 1t has no binding effect
upon other individual members OF the
party, and it has already been repudiated
| by hundreds of thousands.
No spirit of presumption or forwardness
induce the gentlemen who acted with me to
appeal to the American Democrats against
the fagrant violation of party faith and the
utter negation of principles involved in the
nomination of Horace Greeley. We did
| it with higher and nobler motives. We did
it to Tlndicate truth and to protest against
offered reward for political treason to one
who had occupied a liIe time IN the bitter
| est animadYersion upon those whose support
he now has sought. If our call had been
failure our duty would have been none
the less performed. But there was a sym
pathetic chord in. the American heart which
responded in enthusiastic and harmonious
tones to the musicians touch; there is a
love for honesty, a veneratlon Tor principle,
| a deep rooted desire for reform IN the
hearts of the American people. The as
sembIage that | see before me to day
eyinces an earnest inten ton TO uphold that
banner which had fallen from neryeless
aud incompetent hands, and to prove that
the old organization was not dead, but only
sleeping. [Applause. 1T has not died OF
its corruption, as latter day saints proclaim
who are SO eager for its destruction, II
will not hold out rewards for party treason,
nor bribes to secure generals from the
enemy s camp. Applause.
The ewes Of the whole country are direct
ed TO this convention, and many anxious
hopes are to be verified or blasted, accord
inc as wisdom or its negative shall be the
controlling spirit of our deliberations. We
can make this body famous IN history as
the source from which the future policy
and destiny of the country is to be shaped.
We can make it equally Insignificant and
destitute Of influence. We want no hydra
headed platform which can be construed
according to the wishes OF the reader, Tor
we have clear and undoubted eyes which
have but one Interpretation, whether eX,
pounded in the North or IN the South. we
can have no intent to reopen the questions
! =
decided. Great applause
We will give no encouragement to augh1
that looks toward revolution, nor can we
while submitting to the inevitable and pow
erless to reverse what has been accom-
plished, satisfy ourselves by commentator
! of acts performed IN violation OF the constl
tuition. Great applause. We must seek
our alliance upon principle We must, i
we can, impress upon the minds OF the la
boring classes, who constitute the vast ma
ioritv of our population, a full conviction O.
: our honesty and sincerity in behalf of meas
ures tending to benefit them. We should
prove our friendship by actions which may
appease conflicts between capital and labor
through wise compromises, acceptable L
both and, while capital has rights which
we should seek not to infringe, labor is en-
titled to earnest consideration, for it is tat
parent of wealth. It IS the bone and sineV
of the land. fGreat applause. 1t is a la
bOTiOus work to attempt the organization o
party, aud to create it and TIE necessary
machinery.
For two months every thought of n,
brain has been mon0p0lized, every energ,
of mind and body directed to the accom-
pIishment Of that object. The sincerity 0
my motive shopld avert criticism; and i
there have been errors of omission or com
mission, they should be overlooked. for tn
spring of my action has been the intent t
do right and to aid in the preservation o
the party and the perpetuation of its prin
cipIes as the sole hope for the future Of tbs
:. country. FGreat applause. And now, gen
tlernen, weary as am in mind and body
there is an absolute sensation of relief thai
I can terminate my selfimposed duties and
abdieate my functions. fGreas applause. ]
At the end of Mr.. Duucan's speech he in,
trodueed Levi S. Chatfeld, of New York,
as temporary chairman. Cheers followed.
Three cheers. were also given for Duncan.
Mr. Chatfeld was unanimously ehoser
Messrs. Spaulding, of New York, Lynn
Virginia, and Wheaton, of Michigan, >
appointed q committee to cond1 vel
Chatfield to the chair. zes n
Mr. Chatfeld reaching tbs
said: Gentlemen of the cor o platform
nv first duty, as It is my 4aenti0n-It
to tender to you my b 4s1eere pleasugg
! this compliment of mr 4ssTtfelt thanks I,