New Orleans Republican., 1872-06-02
NEW ORLEANS, SUNDAY, JUNE 2, 1872.

| tBe government, Out u nau OUl6F aims
baser, if possible, than that 1t was deter
mined by this marshal, this collector an(
his deputies, this postmaster and these
other federal officials to control the Legis
lature for their own mercenary purposes
1t was in order that they might pass sucl
bills as the Nic9lson pavement bill, which
was to take two hundred and fifty or three
hundred thousand dollars out of the State
treasury, which was, of course. to be extOrt
ed from the people of CaddO, Carroll
COncordla, LafOurche, and all the parishes
of this State, in the shape of taxes, and UC
give to Mr.. Packard and his Southern Pave.
ment Company that he might Law a pave.
ment in the city of New Orleans, for a dis.
tance of seven miles, to CarrOlltOn. That's
so that's so ] Such as Postmaster Low
| ellis scheme to swindle New Orleans out OF
the entire drainage fund and all the swamp
lands in the vicinity of the city, in compen-
satiOn for which the company was to dig
the Ship Island Canal. Good good Il
Such as that giving 81 1000 of the bonds
/ of the State to aid Mr. Casey and his crowd
of federal Ofice-hOlding friends in going
| into the warehouse business. GOOD y and
"That's SOFT Such as that by which the
whole levee front, from Canal to
| Julia streets, should be mOnopolized
| and which granted them permis-
| sion to build sheds and to tax
OhCA SGC0Auc4lAy VI Uudb bLjtG 1duaCu buGIO
| as well as every article of merchandise that
should be landed under it, Such as the
| Louisiana levee bill, which was to take pos
session of our entire line of levees and for
the repair Of which they were to receive
| sixty cents per cubic yard, requiring a tax
| to realize a million dollars annually upon
| the property of the State, and to secure the
| passage of which Mr.. Casey and his friends
went into the Legislature and paid one
hundred and twenty thousand dollars cor
ruption funds, and passed it through the
House Of Representatives with but one dis
senting vote, and through the Senate with
but five, and brought it to the Governor
with threats of suspension from Office and
intimidation to force its approval,
These same people, combining together,
made Mr. Casey the custodian, and his
safe the place of deposit for $50000 bv
which the Legislature was to be induced to
pass the levee shed bill. That's so; good;
applause. With these powers in their
hands; with this patronage in their hands;
with this money in their hands, and with
such a Legislature there was no act of
venality, no act of oppression, no monopoly
of rights and franchises, no objects they de-
sired they did not accomplish through
bribes, with Office, money or intimidation,
by threats Of the anathemas and prOscrip-
tiOn of the national administration and its
party. Applause.l By this great reform
movement, inaugurated at Cincinnati on
the first day of May. we will build up our
State, and relieve the national Capitol of
this corrupt, oppressive and outrageous ad-
ministratiOn. [Applause.l
Whoever has dared to raise his voice
against them or their master, upon him
have been set the blOOdhOunds of the party
organization. Because l have opposed
these schemes and these men a venal and
subsidized press has falsitied and given to
the world charges and statements affecting
me, to which many, in the morbid condition
of the public mind, have been given too
much credence. Never, to my knowledge,
has man been so maligned, so slandered,
so misrepresented in his acts, his purposes
and his objects as myself. [Applause.
For two years, it has has seemed to me,
that every opposition newspaper has de-
voted itself to misrepresentation and ac-
cusatiOns against myself. I"That's so !"
That's sO!"l There is hardly a crime in
the catalogue of Offenses against the State,
against law, against morality, which / have
not, at sometime or by some of them been
charged. Every stump orator has made
me the object of his rhetoric, his denuncia-
tiOns and abuse, thinking that when l was
destroyed their schemes of spOliatiOn, of
fraud and ambition would be accomplished.
[Applause.]
The executive committee of the Repub-
Hcan party year ago denounced me for
what it considered my disposition to favor
a white mans government in this State,
and the late Lieutenant Governor Dunn
wrote to his colored friends circular letter,
in which he told them that he had un-
doubted evidence of my purpose TO make
white mans government, and pointed to the
Democratic judges, justices of the peace,
sheriffs, recorders, cOnstables and police
Jurors appointed by me. While on the
other hand, by the Democratic orators and
press, / was charged with perpetuating
negro rule, and they pointed to the cOlOred
men l have appointed to office. Governor
Dunn and his committee charged me with
attempting to fOist a white mans govern
ment, and pointed to my organization of
the white people into the militia; while on
the other hand l am charged with perpetu-
ating negro rule, and as an evidence they
point to the colOred men / have organized
into the militia. They have united in
charging upon me oppression, and cite my
taking Wickliffe and thrusting him out of
the Office of Auditor, when l had caught
him stealing millions of the peoples
treasure. [Applause]
They point to my expulsion Of BOvee
from the Office Of Secretary State when he
had unlawfully published to the world a
fictitious bill which robbed the city of New
Orleans of her waterwOrks, when he knew
that the original bill was in my possession
as the Governor of the State, and that
would veto it when the Legislature should
assemble. These are their OILY evidences
that l have been corrupt or oppressive. |
["That's so, that's so'l Evidences which |
should, and believe do, elevate me to the |
highest consideration and regard among the |
people of this State. TAppause,J They |
have charged me with corruption in Office, |
with having taken bribes for signing bills, |
with having been bribed to veto meas |
ures, and when measures, have been |
passed over my veto, they charged |
that il was by my cOnniVance and |
me with having prOstituted my Office for |
gain; with having used my position for my |
nv own ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, but when the |
proof of any of these charges has been de-
no one of them has ever been able |
to bring forward the slightest evidence
upon which to Justify the charges. ZAP |
plause.
1t is very difficult to prove negative, but
It so happens in my case that l can estab-
sh the negative to every charge they have
ever insinuated against me- When Wick
life was arraigned before the House of
committee was appointed |
20 investigate the charges that l made
against him. The evidence was fOrthcOm-
ng, his guilt proved before the committee,
he committee reported the facts to the
House. and the House unanimously i'm
leached him. He was tried before the Sen
tie, and that body as unanimously con-
7icted him, and excluded him from Office.
Applause.l
In order to make diversion in his own
interest he swore before the House of Rep
esentatives that | was guilty of thirty-six
Iistinct Offenses. He submitted the names
# several hundred persons as witnesses,
Who he alleged were prepared to prove my
-uilt. The witnesses were summoned
heir evidence was heard. and the commit