New Orleans Republican., 1872-05-23
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SsEEIcI6l JOURNAL or THE UNITED STATES
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF NEW ORLEANS
The Liberal Movement in st. john
PARISH ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST, }
MAY 20. 1872.
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PARISH ST. JOHN TIh Nay SAs5iisi so isia. !
EDITOR REPUBLICAN;
The Fourth Ward Club, Coleman Butler,
president, on the evening of the fifteenth
instant, was the scene Of lively gathering.
The subiect discussed on the occasion was,
Of course, political.
The meeting was called to order, and
Glance at the audience indicated that the
Invitation extended for all to participate
had been well responded to-
On calling the meeting to order, the
president announced that Mr.. James Cole
Ivould narrate his experience in the Gin
cinuati convention. Mr.. Cole, on taking
the floor. stated that ifhe felt any guilt what
ever, or in any way reluctant in disclosing
his views upon the new Liberal movement,
he would shoulder the responsibility of an
explanation on some one else but this was
an occasion, the circumstances of which
were connected with so much pleasure to
him, that it would be good for his soul to
relate; said he, l am glad to know that,
from personal observation, | can announce
TO my hearers with an honest conviction
the present administration Of Governor
WarmOth may announce to the world, in
q voice that may be heard from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, from the st. Law
renee to the Cult of Mexico, that we can
rejoice in a free government, a government
whose people are free, whose courts are
opened for the redress of all grievances
done in the land, whose schools are not the
monopoly Of people opposed to educating
the cOlOred element If you wish to zee
Louisiana in her true light you must first
see what have seen-not what | am told,
but what came directly under my own OBJ
servation. During my recent trip North,
in passing through Alabama, Mississippi,
Kentucky, Tennessee and Ohio, here and
there a few words with my color were facts
sufficient to prove what say, and hereafter
whenever / here any one say that Gov
ernor H. q. WarmOth is not friend to the
colored people / now stand armed with
truth to tell him he is a blatant fool,
and does not know Of whom he speaks.
see it asserted in the Republican Pioneer
and National Republican that cOlored men
were hired and paid to go with Governor
Warmoth to the Cincinnati convention,
which, of course, is not the case; and that
is the extent of the reliability of any of that
class of papers. But, my friends, am sorry
that three or four colOred men from every
parish in the State could not have gone. 1t
could have been conferred upon you since
your emancipation. You could have seen
the superiority of your condition over that
of the cOlored people of the more Northern
States; YOU could have seen the effect OF
State governments, the administration of
which, I am to sorry to say, have not yet
extended its liberalities in accordance with
the constitutional amendments relative to
the cOlored people and / am inclined to
ioln in the very popular belief that if you
substitute any other one man ID North
America for III. G. Warmoth for Governor,
that moment you enter upon retrograde
movement that will cause you many re-
grets, and if I had the casting of the en5ire
.colored vote of the South, / would cast
it solid for Greeley and Brown for President
and Vice President and Henry Clay War
moth for Governor of Louisiana. Gentle
men, thank you for your attention.
Loud calls we're then made for BurreIl,
whose seeming mOdesty indicated that his
remarks should only be in reply to Mr.. De
mas. A vote, however, was taken, deciding
that Dennis Burrrel do make speech, end
he came to the front with as much grace as
could be expected under the circumstances,
and opened numerically upon the conduct
of the anti-Grantites, dehantly asserting
in the most emphatic tones that any
man who was not for Grant was an uncOm-
promising rebel, and he could prove it. Il
Illustrative of which, and to seemingly vi1di-
cate himself from the rather untavOrable
position that his own actions and affiliations
with the Democracy during the two years
that he so disgraeefully misrepresented the
people of his parish IN the Legislature, has
placed himself, commenced an onslaught on
Mr.. Demas' legislative career, as being
corrupt and against the interests Of his CON
stituents.
The feature Of his remarks was his luElic-
rous attempt to illustrate the inc0mpeteacy
and inability of Greeley as President and
Warmoth as Governor, both Of whom he de-
clared to be closely in alliance with Den4Oc-
racY.
His remarks. were responded TO by Hon.
Henry Demas, clearly and satisfactorily
showing the weakness Of BUrrelI. In al
luding to the manner in which Burrell com
plains of having to be slowed away IN the
barber shop whenever he travels by steam
boat or in a dirty smoking-car with the
"dirty Irish," Mr.. Demas supposed that his
general appearance necessitated this result,
for these are matters that generally regu-
late themselves according to circumstances
and the manner in which ones own conduct
places him; but begged the gentleman to be
patient and endure his grievances until alter
March 4, 1873, and Mr.. Greeley, our Presi-
dent at that time, would make sixteenth
amendment wholly applicable to men of
his temperament, During Demas' remarks
Burrell exhibited symptoms of uneaslness
that indicated he was not comforted, and
acting upon selfsuggested impulse that
his silence was more appreciated than his
advice, managed, during the enthusiasm
ensuing from Demas' remarks, to float off
unObserved, with the reflection lingering in
his memory that he sees the handwriting on
the wall for him and his followers.
After Demas' speech, owing to the late
ness of the hour, the meeting broke up
amid the best of feeling with three cheers
for the whole Liberal movement, Cincin-
natl and Governor Warmoth. G. B.