New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-25

however, very humiliating, and their anx
ious shame-facedness betrays how dire is
the necessity which drives them to so ex
IRENE an effort to keep the frail fabric they
have raised from tumbling to pieces on
their heads.
As the paternal government which these
gentlemen represent filed its broken and
shattered armies with purchased substi.
tutes, so do they close up the gaps caused
! by these wholesale assertions by the pur.
chase of proxies. So long as they have a
dollar and Baton Rouge hummer this
convention can be maintained. But for
this abundant material ready at hand, it is
| dubious whether the convention might not
already be considered busted" institu-
ton, unable to do business for want of a
! quorum.
Hop O. my Thumb" Antoine made an
| interesting revelation today. At the post
office corner an old negro was declaiming
against the policy which had stupidity
''made de black man stand up agin de
black man, and pertinently inquiring what
KELLOGG could do for de niggah when mig
gah fighting hisself," when the newly nomi-
mated Lieutenant Governor put in an ap-
pearance. He promptly assured the dis
cOntented crowd that after the election he
would protect his colOred brethren, that
they should all rally under his standard,
and he would see that they had their Just
proportion of the offices. This was in
tended, and was understood to mean that
Kellogg would be sent to the Senate again,
and the executive powers, including that of
appointments, of course, would fall to him.
The Lord avert so dire a calamity is my
earnest prayer, and that He win do so is
my firm belief. For let me here assert a
conviction, based upon close observation
and inquiry, that not a single one of the
real leaders, Kellogg and Packard in
cluded, believe that with the ticket they
have made they can carry the State.
The negro element still remains in the
ascendent, and is clamorOus for the next
place on the ticket, the Authorship. There
is a rumor current that this danger will be
arrested by buying off Bovee with a Gus
tOmhouse place, if not something in hand
more substantial, and filing the Secretary's
office with coIOred man. This would be
shrewd management, and good thing for
Bovee.
Among those who have gone home dis
gusted and sick of the whole affair is Judge
BOuanehaud, of Pointe Coupee, who could
have got named for Auditor, but left, des-
pite Packard's protestations, declaring that
he could never again look his honest friends
IN the cOuntenance if he took an office from
such a scOundrelly concern as the Pixies
Hall convention.
OF course your reporters gave graphic
accounts of the riotous scenes in the con-
vention yesterday and last inight, but 1 can
not omit a word or two reprObating the
display of deadly weapons on all sides,
which gave the members the appearance of |
banditti, rather than a so-called deliberatiye |
body. One large-boned mulatto, without a |
coat, said to be a clerk in Casey's office, |
made himself obnOxiousIy conspicuous in |
the hall and on the streets, with the huge |
handles of navy skies protruding from |
each pocket. Nor was he by any means |
exceptional in this ostentatious display of |
firearms, which would have resulted in
trouble, had the people of this quiet city
any special interest in the con.
tests going on.
The RefOrmers seem to have been con-
snubbed by Sambo, who
would listen TO no alliance with the Democ-
racy in any guise OF under any name.
Colonel George Williamson fails even TO
come in for the Attorney Generalship, not
his promise to stump the
State for Kellogg. Price is kicked over in
favor of the eloquent DR.. Darrau, and if
The promise to Randolph ct ais. not to
nominate a negro Superintendent of Edu-
,ation is kept, it will be subject for agree
lble surprise. Kellogg openly asserts that
Colonel Williamson has given the pledge
sbOve alluded to, and in view of the pros
'ective elevation to the gubernatOrial pow
RS of Caesar Constantinus Antoine, ESQ,
his involves no enviable task. There are
promises better broken than kept, Colonel.
could crowd your columns with reports,
populations and incidents, ludicrous and
otherwise Of the convention, but as l NAV
rench on your regular representatives, 1
hall, for the present, withhold There are
many points which will keep for leisure
eading. RED STICK.