Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1872-07-27

Icolored, or or tine plea tlat ne lS1S
,n6rant and Incompetent. There are q
great many colored men well qualified
for ser eral Of your parish Offices, and
Who are perfectly reliable, and to snch
men sou ought to be- willing to, give
whatever positions they are capable oil
filling. S'TYTf
| Referring to the late convention OF
the Customhouse , party at Baton
Rouge lie said that the grand objec
ton to him was told in a few Words
words of the Custonhouse people
themselves: off we let Pincllback
come inv, why he wiitrm IT,
Now, sentsemeB, doesn't it look a
littie singular il what they said before
and since their convention be, true,
that | represented ealy myself, that
could run their convention !. How
could one man, without any, support
ers, run a conveptionf It's funny,
isn't ii Men without constituents
don't run such big machines as State
conventions. You're right they
DON'T and applause. De .df 7g,D
The trutlris,s Mr.. Packard knew that
| would never give my support to vii.
liam Pitt Kellogg, nor consentto any
ofmy friends voting for him. : Womb
like to ask you this question. Who is
Kellogg! Why, you people don't
know him, and / predict you never
will fU;, when this campaign gets as
hot as it will be, he'ltbe afraid to come
out here. Why, he was never known
IN this State until he came to-fiIl big
federal ofiice-collecto of customs
to which he was appointed by Mr..
Lincoln. after whose death he became
blatant johnson y Democrat, and
would not countenance "a colorcd man
at all. After Governor Warmotll's
election, this nice gentleman saw that
. - u il
this State was going to be Republican,
and suddenly, to the surprise, of eve
rybOdy and no one more than himself,
he touhd he was a Republican. More
than this, he saw the United States
Senatorship in the, distance, and at
once began to work for it.
Poor men, a great many of5them
colored, had been elected to the Leg
islature, and Mr.. Kellogg, good Sam
aritan as he is, could not, bear to see
them walking about the streets with
out money. oh no, rosShe; and ac-
.codingly he invented the I" post roll y
in the Customhouse aud placed these
men on it, and paid them with United
States funds, lsenSationl, not. to work
for the government, but 10 work out
his own ambitions ends. But Mr..
Kellogg did not stop here. He bowed.
and sefaped, and toadied to the celor-
ed Legislators, met and convcrsed with
them on every corner, tlattered, and
c;lressed them,- till at length,
he won them completely over You
coIorcd men. know how it is when
white man behaves nice to you.
Laughter. s-s-F.Assg
Well, the Legislature met, and Mr..
kellosg's name came before it as
for United States Senator,
and lie was elected. Elected, and, of
coarse, not by the patronage at his
command in the Customh0use. Not
at all. He is too virtu0us for that. |
Now, this man owed his elevation
mainly to colored voters, as through |
them he defeated that staunch old |
Republican and sterling gentleman,
Thomas J sDurant,s and what return
has he made yOus
He has neverihadeany.o When the
in which you we're most
civil rights bili--calne
az. in the United States Senate, Mr..
Kellogg paireil off with a Democrat,
; order not to vote for it, and later
still lie l-lias declared that be owed
the colored people. But
ir. Kellogg wants to I've Governor
now, and he needs the. colopd vote.
lud he will resort to his old practices
% get it. q i.Il4 ip0Sf nTeds0 ~
The speaker next discussed the
arguments made by Keliogg's friends
n his behalf, and showed fiat what
EVER good was done by him as Senator
vas from selfish motives, and that the
would be Governor had "eggs iii
very BASKET He took care of ALL
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