New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-11

The delegates to the Liberal State Con-
vention from the first congressional district,
| Immediately after the adjournment Of that
body yesterday, assembled in ParlOr o, st.
Charles Hotel, and organized into con-
gressional convention.
Hon. Thomas Green Davidson, of Living
ston parish, was elected president, and
George Delemore of the eighth ward, parish
of Orleans, was elected secretary.
A nomination for Congress was entered
into, the candidates being Judge Sloanaker
and George A. Fosdick, Esq, with the fol-
lowing result Sloanaker twenty-three, Eos
dick ten.
On motion, Judge Sloanaker was declared
unanimously the nominee for Congress.
Judge Sloanaker being called on, amid
great applause spoke as follows:
Mr.. President and Gentlemen of the Con
vention-For this mark of your distin-
guished consideration and confidence,
pray leave to return you my heartfelt &C
acknowledgements.
In accepting your nomination for Con-
gress, l beg to state that l shall make a
thorough canvass of the district, both on
the stump and by socially interminghng
with the people, for by such means alone
can l properly understand the districts
wants and necessities; so, if elected by
cOnfding constituency, l may be able to
prove myself peoples representative by
actions and not words, when their varied IN
terests are to be cared for or contested.
To opposing candidates l will say that SO
far as / am concerned, the canvass shall be
conducted in Accordance with the instincts
of a gentleman, outside of personal abuse,
i DE 4hn 1F1nTrN az
involved in the issues of the day, which are
of more consequence than the elevation of
any individual, no matter what may be his
claims OF hold upon his fellOw-citizens.
| am not unmindful of the commercial
and agricultural interests of this district,
and if elected / shall be on the alert to
cherish. them alike, so as to advance the
productive advantages of both, for Con-
gressman, charged with so important inter-
ests, should at all times remember that he
| is a representative of his people and not
mere partisan. Therefore all my cOnsttu-
| ency will have claim to demand my ser
| vices for the advancement of healthy laws;
| to procure the selection of honest officials,
and care for their local interests, and other
wise assist in advancing the welfare OF the
| republic and the prosperity of the State OF
! of Louisiana, which shall be my highest
| ambition if elected as your representative.
! AS one of the first of the OriglnatOrs in
| this State of the Cincinnati movement, and
| q delegate therefrOm to that convention, l
| would say that the present political move
ment, of which Mr.. Greeley is the head and
! front, is not partisan coalition, but a
! popular revolution.
Now, it is not every man who under
! stands the moral meaning of the great up
| rising of the masses among whom he lives
and moves and has his being. Nor is it
! every participant in the Liberal reform
movement who cOmpTehends its full or
chief purport-the logic of its own argu-
| ment:
1t means anything to beat Grant, says
! one. 1t means honesty in the government,
| saws another. 1t means civil service re-
! forms, prOclaims another. 1t means a pro-
! test against nepOtism, says another. 1t
| means State rights against federal interior
ence, says another. 1t means the civil law
exalted over the military, says another.
Yes, my fellOw-citizens, it means all these
things.
1t means that we must beat Grant. 1t
| means an honest administration. 1t means
a reform in civil service. 1t means q snb-
! ordination of the military power during
peace. It means that the president shah
not portion out his offices among his broth
ers-in-law, cousins, uncles and wfe's rela-
tons But, gentlemen, it means in addi-
ton to all these, the reuniting of the sun
dered North and South, the cessation Of
past hatred, the oblivion of old revenges,
the clasRing of once hostile hands IN the
! spirit of unity and the bond Ufpeace.
1t means the healing of the wounds of the
rebellion; the restoration of fraternity and
| brOtherly kindness between the people Of a
common cOuntry-by the knitting together
of the discovered sections thereof 1t means
universal amnesty, which is the application
of true religion to civil government. 1t
means the restoration of business relations
between the Lakes and the Gulf. 1t means
the end Of war, the beginning of peace. 1t
q. means the era of good feeling.
Yes. the new movement aecOmpllshes
this benifcent result, not only without a
compromise of any vital principle of human
! liberty hitherto in dispute between the sec
! tons, but by a stronger affirmation OF those
| great principles than is contained even IN
! the Declaration of Independence itself. Its
! banner bears the proud inscription OF equal
| rights to all men. Its platform pledges it.
self explicitly, unreservedly and elOquently
| to the validity of the the thirteenth, four
| teenth and fifteenth amendments; to the
! inviOIability of the national debt; to the
! perpetual union of these States, and in
! short to all the great demands required for
| the integrity Of the public and the COM
| pleteness of its liberty.
Mr.. President, "the Liberal movement
y
no ,iot or title of the sacred claim which
! the wars necessity has made on behalf OF
! the negro, and which can never be surren-
! dered, for by this movement they are now
| and forever triumphantly secured. The
movement, therefore, has the primal merit
! of being right and just, and now takes to
! itself the merit of being popular and pow
| erfuI With my whole heart in common
with you, let us labor for it, and with an
| finching faith let us prophesy its victory,
! for thus shall we redeem our beloved State
| and common country. Again thanking
! you, my. fellow-citizens, for the nomination.
| | trust | shall be able to meet your expecta-
! tons as the standard-b bearer of such princi-
| pies to be inaugurated in the policy OF our
! government.
Judge Sloanaker took his seat amid deaf
ening cheers, and received the congratula-
tons of the delegates assembled.
On motion, the president was authorized
to appoint congressional executive COM
mittee, and the secretary directed to notify
the State Central Committee of the nomi-
nation and action of the convention.
A resolution was passed directing the diff
ferent wards and parishes of the district to
appoint from among their number one
member to the State Central Committee
| thereof, and when such action was had, to
notify Secretary Hero relative thereto.
On motion, the convention adjourned sine
die, with cheers for the success of the Lib
eral State ticket and the election of Greeley