The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-07-22

Liberal party, whose vitality and
strength was and is Coy. Warmoth.
Frequent applause showed that the lis
teners fully sympathized with Colonel
McEnery.
HON. b. T.. JONAS
Was next introduced. Great anxiety
was felt to hear Mr.. Jonas; and much
as was expected of him, he yet fully
redeemed the promises made by his
friends.
Abiding to Warmoth's reply to
Penn, that, if honored with the nomi-
nation of the Liberal Republican party
he would go through the land denounc-
ing corruption, the speaker said War
moth would show how this State was
over-taxed and misruled by the cor
rupt Federal officials; how thirty mill
lions We're added to the State debt by
these infamous Federal officials, while
he {Warmoth) was Governor, Legisla-
ture and Supreme Court, all three in
one, and while he had the key of the
Treasury in his pocket how he could
not sign the bill modifying the election
and registration laws on account of
these corrupt Federal officials how the
city of New Orleans was put under the
Metropolitan police law by the corrupt
Federal officials, though he declared a
few nights since he could not for a mo-
ment think Of signing the bill passed
by the last legislature ut his dictation.
HON. j. G. MONCuRE.
This popular favorite of the people
the Bayard of the observation-disclosures
Mr.. Jonas in a short, but earnest and
eloquent address, endorsing and APP
proving tho object of the meeting.
Business OH one of the committees
called us away during his speech, and
we are compelled to forcgo even an alb
stract Of his remarks. Mr.. Moncure
returns home to go actively into the
canvass.
HON. II. n. OGDEN.
The next speaker was II. N. Ogden,
Esq, candidate for Attorney General,
NlNA NhO representative Va viz INclol III
party. Mr.. Ogden's remarks were
graceful, fervid and very appropriate.
Mr.. Ogden said the Reform party
organized February 18th, was the real
Reform party of tho State. 1t was or
ganized under a pressure Of danger, and
for the purpose of saving the State
Every light it showed was a pure light.
1t offered no presidents Of meetings or
speakers who were not incorruptible
men. 1t is part of the great national
led by Greeley and Brown.
Warnoth had taken advantages of the
discovery that it was the card in this
and had organized the present
Liberal movement, which is Il counter
felt of Reform, not n single pure light
having been shown by it. He said-
the negroes -- that they
should vote for Horace Greeley, as he
was their lifelong friend. Charles
Sumner Ind opposed Grant; clearly
demonstrating that Grant was corrupt
and not to be trusted. The negro should
Join the State Reform movement, which
at its inception, declared that it stood
on platform free from any element of
opposition to the Federal Constitution
and laws Of the United States rs they
stand. The statement that the white
people would take their rights from
them was malicious and false. Their
right to vote was now part Of the Or
ganic law of the land, and was morally
They must be treated
by the people of the South ,s voters,
and in that position their education
and moral elevation WAS It matter of
great Importance to the Southern poo
pie, and it was clearly their interest, as
soon as this controversy between the
white and black was over, to do all they
could for their education and moral cl-
ovation. Mr.. Ogden appealed to the
ladies to use their influence us mothers,
wives and sisters, to drive back the
false philosophy which was being
taught that the end justified the means.
CARLETON HUNT, tso.
Following Mr.. Ogden, came Carleton
Hunt, Esd, of Now lrI,1opS >ybnsn