New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-14

1t was ANNOUNCED that Colonel Penn
would address the convention in the course
Of an hour.
Mr.. n. Underwood, of East Baton Rouge,
offered a resolution for the appointment of
a State central executive committee, which
was referred to the committee on resolu-
tiOns without debate.
ReSolred, That this committee be author
| lied to confer with the Liberal party.
ReSolced That we indOrse the nOmina-
tiOn Of Greeley and Brown and the CinciI-
natl platform.
! Re erred to the committee on resolutions.
| Mr.. Vigers, of Orleans, moved that MT
! E. LOngpre be appointed an assistant sec
retary. Carried.
A motion having been carried to that eff
! feet Colonel S. j. n. Smith was invited to
| address the convention.
Mr.. Smith said-I can speak probably
| with more eaTnestness and feeling than
any other man. For thirty years l have re
Trained from any participation in political
events, and looking upon pOlltics az busi-
ness, / have had nothing to do with it.
For years have | earnestly looked forward
to party which would unite all the CON
servative masses Of the country together
a party which should forget all prejudices
and past differences, and one which shall
define capacity for office not to consist III
the color of the skin, but in integrity, a
1t makes no difference to me who the
candidates on the ticket are so they repre-
sent the united people. | have gone into
this movement so that all the elements of
progress may be united in one bundle for
the good of the State.
Tie present position of political parties
in this State puts me in mind of the turtle
usually in front of restaurant and in
scribed with the words lunch to-day"
Swallow the insides and all is well, but 90
out into the yard and there is the turtle,
his body gone, but in its place a shell and
head, which still keeps swapping and biting
viDdictivelY. All that is lett OF the Demo
Gratis is the head which still moves. its
jaws.
The body was eaten and digested in Bal
timoTe, yet the head Of it as seen on ST.
Charles street still snaps defantly. 1t only
remains to let them alone, and they will die
the death Of the turtle. Let this party sUc-
ceed and honest men will be put in office
the people will be united, and then a man
who has fought the battles of the cOlOred |
men for twenty years will be recognized.
True fought him on that line myself, but |
like Captain ScOtt's coon I've been COM |
PEELED to come down, and come down as |
gracefully as possible.
The future pages Of history will contain |
no brighter record than those which will |
chronicle the deeds of the Baltimore con |
vention, where the party rolled up its old |
banners and traditions, and swallowed HOr-
ace Greeley, boots and all. Had the situa-
ton been accepted, after the surrender at
Appomattox by that great and good man,
Robert Z. Lee, it would have been differ
ent.. The day of union of the people has at
last arrived, when they all shall stand to-
gether.-
In conclusion, all have to say in regard
to ''the people up stairs" is, that "a little
leaven leaveneth the whole"
Mr.. Fisk, Of East Baton Rouge, moved
vote of thanks be rendered Colonel Smith
for his address Carried.
On motion Of o. +. Hunsaker, Mr.. John
of st. James, was invited to adj
dress the convention.
Mr.. Hedgepath was introduced by Cen
eral Campbell as one Of the most steadtast
supporters of his people nov in the State.
For the past few years, he said, reverting
to the history of the past, have advocated |
lighting the white people, but now my feel |
Dgs have radically changed, for see that |
hey are willing to bury the hatchet and | I
Orget and | claim, as Charles Sumner did,
hat I am too good Republican to Join |
With the Radical party. Then let it not be
aid that l am going with the Democrats
because join with the Liberal party.
What have we against Horace Greeley |
4 man who has been a Republican for |
With his mothers milk We want gov
rnment here that black and white can
aspect; can take one another by the hand |
md 90 on together If that be the case, /
lain that all should Join in the Liberal
movement. | say hat General Grant and
lis army can not belp us-we must help
ourselves In the Baton Rouge convention
Ike Governor was picked out by ring.
IOw. l say, it is not the province Of ring, 4
ut of the people, to select the Governor.
! claim that we can not be worse de-
eiEed and played upon than we have been
lTeady. 80 this day we have no repre- .
entatiOn in Congress; there is not the
anne of a single cOlOTed man allowed upon
he ticket If the Liberal movement is not
in November it will be astOnish- |
lg to wise men. Now, when l see the for l
ler great leaders and statesmen, such men I
s Charles Sumner, n. p. Banks an,3 others, l
,ining with the Liberal party, / think J
lere must he something dark about the old y
tnks /
Committee on RESOLUTIONS AND PLATFORM | [
New Orleans August I3, 1872. 7
D the President and Members of the Convention: /
GENTLEMES-YOur committee on platform 4
I'd resolutions have the honor to submit to P
Ju the following report;
WHEREAS, The Uniticati0n Of the RepUb Il
can party in louisiana, in connection with =
e Philadelphia movement, upon fair and /
ynOrable terms, has been defeated by the q
liust and tTeaCheTOus action Of the Gus j
mhOuSe faction, in that said faction, u
rough the Vaccinations Of certain federal ! p
icials, OF whom S. B. Packard, United | p
atCs marshal, IS chief, and by the improper | II
I'd unauthorized use of federal patronage X
we attempted to. force upon the Repubii- "
rs of the State ticket not nominated by | u
9 Republican masses, nor acceptable 70 u
en-; and whereas, President u. s. Grant,
ter being duly informed relative to the y
ton of his subOrdinates, has refused TO q
her remove or control them, but permits Il
ieral officials to become the centers Of di
iitical opinion in such way as to defeat cC
e wishes of the people through The use Pl
the public positions, and thus becomes a III
rty to their ofeuses and wrongs peTpe-
ited by these Teoreant officials; and tn
leTeas, in the Liberal Republican plat th
ms, national and State, we find a full n
,OgnitiOn of our rights, and a satisfactory u
5ertiOn of Republican principles; and on tn
3 national and State tickets of said party Ia
mpetent, true and honest men; therefore,
ReSoioGd, That we, in behalf of ourselves tn
d those represented by US, members of be
, Republican party, duly sppreciating WI
services and patriotism of those leaders tlt
whom republcanism owes largely its
,cess, and we our political and civil tic
hts, do hereby tender to Charles Sum til
?, Horace Greeley, n. p. Banks, and their pO
upeers, our thanks for the good work
ne, and express our Unabated confidence
their integrity as Republicans.
ReSolced, That we do now accept as a Pc
tfOrm of this convention the platform Of ing
Cincinnati convention, and we indOrse on
presidential ticket put forth by said or