New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-01-13
DEBATES IN THE HOUSE.

THURSDAY, January Ii, lo.2.
! After the usual routine Of business, AR
Mahouey said:
Mr.. Speaker. l rise to privileged question.
/ have In my hand a copy OF this evening"
Pcuyune. 1t contains a statement in refer.
ence to the arrest of the gentleman from
Grant parish. l would like to say a few
| words in reference to it. | was arrested on
the information OF the gentleman from
Grant parish, and three others. They
made an affidavit against me, charging me
with being a Ku-Klux. Now, sir, | have
been known to the people OF Louisiana for
thirteen or fourteen years. | have been
here, sir. since the war, and q long time
before it. l have worn the CALLING yoke of
slavery and have felt the lash of the I'M
just, and now | nave been arrested on the
affidavit of this gentleman, who has sat
with me in the same Assembly. wv lave
voted together. and acted like members
representing a constituency should do, and
ON his affidavit / have been incarcerated as
d ku-kluX. l nave never SAID anything
against the gentleman until the present time,
aud even now | DO not intend to say any
thing but that which he deserves. l have
never been arrested in my lite before
on a charge of mlsdemeanor. but now | am
arrested on a personal aggrandizement of
this member.
Now, sir, let lis see who these persons who
are CRYING for reform are. This person, j.
Henri Burch, comes down here from New
York, goes to Baton Rouge. and is sent
down here to represent the people OF Lou
isiana. Now, sir, l want to know what this
niger carpet Dagger knows about the
people OF New Orleans or the people OF
Louisiana? ! can not see how this House
can seat such a man. /, sir. who have borne
the CALLING yoke of slavery, know more
q hnJIt tho fan1Jnr of my ST1fa than
any niger carpet-bagger from the
North. Yet J. Henri Burch is a
nan | respect; | mean who | think would
make a better man. He came here a few
years ago, and was sent here as g. represent
alive of a people. He joined the party
whose organization Was the strongest, but,
see, he had not been with them long before
he sold out the Republican party and the
col0red people of the State. 1t is said by
an old statesman that an Englishman is
unfit to be called a man that will betray
another Englishman into slavery" and 1
say here, that any nigger from New York is
unfit to be called a negro, to betray the
colored people Of Louisiana into slavery.
Now, sir, l want to know what that
niger carpet-bagger knows about the
people of this State. What docs lie know
of the wants and necessities of our con-
stltuents? | answer, nothing. He, in my
ppIulOu, Sold 10 ~ '" LiIo
State. He claims to be the leader of
the Republican party: this Niger carpet
Dagger claims to be a leader Of our parry
the man who passed counterfeit money on
his constituents. What right has he to
belong to an honest partyf None, sir; he
should be placed with criminals. not gen
tlemen.
And another carpet-bagger, Mr.. Speaker,
is George w. Carter. This honorable gen
tlelnan came here from Texas and run tor
State Senator in the Fifth district, but he
did MT get it. | was the man that de-
feated him, and I rejoice in that fact. We
have no more use for the Southern car
pet-baggers than we have for the Northern
ones.
Now, sir, these men are crying for re-
form-these men who are trying to subyert
the State government, and melting riot
throughout the city. They want reform, so
they say; but | say that their cry for reform
is simply a pretext to get control OF the
State AMI put it in the hands of the Demo-
Gratis.
Mr.. Speaker, L have been sold by white