New Orleans Republican., 1872-05-02

Ones InUaTiabEy R9ected-The Editor no
Responsible for tie Sentiments Expressed
the Communications.
Country Delegates.
EDITOR REPUBLICAN:
The manner in which the Packard Casey
convention tPumps up country delegates ls
really amusing. For instance, the 81. JOhh
the Baptist delegates 90 to that conVeh
ton armed with credentials obtained from
q source Of about the same legal authority
as any of the component parts OF thaC cOh-
VentiOn.
For weeks past numerous political cam
paigu documents, bearing the signature oI
a United States marshal ana OIICIS' 81
liciting subscription to sO'callea h5PuoH-
can paper. headed National ReDuOttcdn,
paoLPsr55 Convention circulars, National Re-
pubicans' auxiliary APPOINTMENTS fro-
T;ainDaI Executive Committee appoint
ments schemes for cheating WarmOth," all
pmanatiug from the United States Custom
house. aud bearing the signature of our
iIIustrious United States marshal, with one
or two exceptions, have been circulated
quite extensively.
ON Friday, the twenty-sixthi of April, ere
the train had sounded its departing tOot
from St. John station, on which the Hon
Henry Uemas and Mr.. Combs had taken
their departure for the Cincinnati cOnven-
tiOn, messengers were dispatched by some
unknown authority, announcing that 'War-
moths tax collecting corps, yclept George
w. Combs and Hon. Henry Demas, had de-
parted for the Cincinnati-BOlters Frank
Blair Ku-Klux Convention" and at the
same time designating numerous places of
ward meetings, inveigling, by unusual in
ducements, people to assemble, never fail
ing wherever a crowd could be found to
heap imprecatiOns upon Governor War
moth and his scapegrace Othce-hOldeTs"
The announcement that several hOnOra-
bles would address the assemblage was
considered sufficient incentive for the peO-
pie to turn out en- masse. Their aTdOr,
however, was not in the least dampened,
when, on the arrival of the speakers at the
meeting of Friday night, they found one
single benighted adherent with his usual
companion, full and uncorked. OF course
they couldn't waste gas on one, and retired
to consider the situation.
The next day, however, there was an en-
tirely new programme, it being Saturday,
and the people would come, as a part of
that day is usually allotted by their employ
ers for the labOrers. That night, Satur-
day, the twenty-seventh, a meeting for
the express purpose of enlightening the
minds Of the benighted, was held, wherein
was to be enunciated true, unadulterated es-
sence of Republicanism, and by way of in.
cident, ref eshments for the inner man for
this occasion were not forgotten. From one
who was present, we have obtained the fol
lowing facts:
At seven o'clock, the hour fixed for
the assembling Of the meeting, it was
called to order. Fourteen faithful an
sWered to their names. Of course this
fourteen, by actual count, was a mass
meeting, for the preliminaFies of the or
ganizatiOn were resolved into a permanent
one, and it kept on resolving, and only
stopped upon arriving at the permanent
organization Of parish executive commit
tee of the Republican party of the parish
of st. John the Baptist. The members
composing this committee must have been
sent there by vote of the several clubs,
because the resOlvers never alluded to
how they got there; not even as having
ticket of admission from Marshal Packard
or a federal commission from Grant. En-
hghtenment being their chief object, they
of course skipped these little intormaiities
of examining credentials, etc.
At all events the result of these fourteen
assemblies was the organization of per-
manent parish executive committee, the
election of two delegates and alteTnates to
the Packard convention, introduction and
adoption of why's and wberefOres. Grants
election was confirmed, and WarmOth and
his followers sent where the wOOdbine
twineth." Thus ends the meeting that
brings into existence the CustOmhOuse
delegates, MEMO.