New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-08-23
POLITICAL.
Alabama Republicau Couxentio,

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Alabama Republican Convention.
MONTGOMERY, August 22.-The Republi-
can convention renOminated White and
Sheits for Congressman at large. No plat
form yet The committee on credentials
took day and night to report.
There are thirty-three proxies out of
reported that way. Qne-third of the con-
ventiOn is made up of the Mobile custom
house and postmasters, and as many more
are bought up proxies.
The Relief Fund.
Spencer, Hays and White run the conven-
ton entirely. The fund appropriated by
Congress for the reliet of the overfowed
destitute on the Alabama and Black War
rior rivers is to be used as the campaign
fund, and the faithful base great expecta-
tiOns on it. Big crops are made and no
destitution prevails in Alabama and there
is no need for federal bacon aud green
backs. 1t will only be used to corrupt
voters.
The Platform.
The convention received five platforms
up to 1:3O P. M. 1t is believed Summers
bill will either be ignored or declined.
Tho Adjournment.
MONTGOMERY, Ala, August 22-After
three days session the Republican State
The following resolutions were adopted:
First-The Kepublican party Of Alabama,
in the State convention here assembled,
again declares its unshaken confidence in
and it's unalterable devotion to the great
principles Of human liberty which called it
into existence, viz: The civil ane political
equality OF all men, without distinction OF
race or color.
Second-In the practical application of
these principles, we have neither claimed
nor desired the social equality of different
races, CT of individuals of the same race;
neither do we desire or claim it now, and
all assertions to the contrary are without
the slightest foundation in point of fact.
We regret the issue of race against race.
which is rendered us by the Democratic
party, as fraught with incslculsble evil to
our whole people; which sOws the seeds OF
ruin to our whole national, social and DO
| litical interests, and which, if persisted in
by that party, will steadily plunge us again
into war with the government of the
United States.
Third-We have not made race iasue
in the past, neither do we make or tender
such an issue now. What we demand for
one man, we demand for all without distinc-
| ton OF race or color, and we point with
pride and confidence to every line of our
| political record in proof Of this declaration.
We denOunce the assertion that we have
! made it necessary for the whole people to
unite and act together in selfdefense and
| for the preservation of white civilization
as untrue, and an emanatiOn from that
selfish spirit which in the past demanded
everything Tor one race, and was unwilling
| to cede anything to the other.
l. FOurth-That the race issue now rendered
by the Democrats of Alabama, is but an
outcropping Of the ambitious spirit which
has led peaceful people into war with
IN
that war rode roughshod over the people OF
the South, and after the war perpetuated
| the carnival Of blood by career Of crime
| in the Ku-Klux Khan, which, In the extent
of its organization, the numbers involved.
the multiplicity and heniousness of it's
crimes, and the manner of their commits
sion, finds no parallel on the rolls of human
infamy. 1t Is now, as it was then, each in
its different mode OF resistance to the con-
stitution and laws of the land, and again
will 1t be, with vengeance sharpened and
enven0med by continued and repeated
persistence in wrong.
Ffth-That we neither desire nor seek
the invasion Of the rights of the white peo-
pie by the colored; We only ask equal ad-
vantages IN matters OF public and common
right. This we consider to be all that ia
embraced in what is known as the civil
rights bill, and in order that we may be
understood and no false charges made
against us, We hereby declare that the
Republican party does not desire or
seek mixed schools or mixed accom-
modations for the colored people, but ask in
all Of these, that the advantages shall be
equal; we want no special equality, enforced
by law. We recognize the TACT, that every
home is sacred from intrusion, and that in
free country every one can dictate for
himself the line Of social exclusion that
society gave US by laws more inexorable
than statute or common law, and opens or
closes its door TO whOmsoever it will; and
that no civil law can or should invade it,
Sixth-We hold that governments are in
stltuted among men for the protection of
life, liberty and property, and we demand
vigorous execution of the laws of this
| State and of the United States for that pur-
pose, and we call upon the Governor of this
State to take all legal means at his command
| for the purpose OF discovering and bringing
to trial all persons offending against the
laws. Murder by lying in ambush, whether
by one or many, must Be put an end to, and
the peace and security Of the humblest
home must be respected and projected.
Seventh-The good faith and credit OF the
State were we'll sustained, and the price OF
the bonds, when the government passed
from the hands of Governor Smith to his
Democratic successor in November 1917, is
unmistakable evidence Of the fact, and We
pledge ourselves to use the means of the
State for the payment of all its just debts,
and provide for tho proper adjustment of
what is called the railroad Indebtedness
| Of the State, and to put an end to the
| further Endorsement of the bonds of all
private corporations. These results can
| only be achieved by an economical use Of
our resources without expressing the people.
| Good faith, economy and retrenchment of
| ali unnecessary expense in the use of our
resources win secure the result.
Eighsh-That the seizure of the Alabama