The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-10-29
49, Thos Reynolds,
F Dudenhefer.
NIB. C. F. BUCK
was the first speaker.

pose OF determining their right of tranchise-tha
Was already established; it ives admitted by ever
fair.minded man, and even the usurper kellogg,
could not, il the face Of the decision Of the man
eminent lawyers arrived at during the day, den
it. There was but one dissenting voice. and tina
was the voice Of the man Field. The meetinI
had gathered to assent the right guaranteed tt
them and to protest against the most damnab
been perpetrated or conceived. 1t was schem,
that they would not submit to. They were cti
zens and free men, and they knew their rights
| and would maintain them.
| He did not believe that violence was contem
plated. He believed that moderation was the
order Of the hour; but they would. on the I'd Of
November, assert their rights with their ballots.
Ii these were disregarded, they must be patient
must wait until the people of the whole country
should awake to their wrongs; wait. if necessa-
~, until the people Of the North were, like them,
struggling for their rights; wait until indigna-
ton found expression in the North and West in
tones such as Indiana and Ohio had spoken in.
He believed that the people Of this State had
cause to congratulate themselves, for he be-
ieved that it was due to them that Indiana and
Ohio have spoken as they have.
The above is only the tenor Of Mr.. Bucks re-
marks, Is was gathered under the disadvantages
arising from the conversation OF garrulous gentle
men congregated around tho reporters table, and
the fact that about one hundred and fifty other
gentlemen seemed to consider it absolutely
necessary for their happiness here and hereafter,
to crowd between the table and the speakers q
space Of about fifteen feet.
FRANK M'GLOIN, ESQ.,.
was the next speaker. He did not think it so much
question Of outrage as question Of principle,
principle which was one OF the foundations of
the government Of this country, the violation Of
which, il once submitted to, would be a precedent
for similar action in the future.
They were battling not only for their own
rights, but for the rights of every foreign-born
citizen of the country, and be abured them to
stand firm. He next referred to the proposition
OF the elOgg crowd to give them the shadow Of
their rights and keep them from the substance
by having separate ballot boxes, and he said that
the thanks Of every naturalizod Citizen was due
to the Democratic Conservative Committee for
the stand they had taken.
The above synopsis was obtained under the
same peculiarly Favorable (s) circumstances as
were attendant on the remarks ct Mr.. Buck.
JOS WAGNER, ESQ.,,
was introduced. He said, in . few Words it was
the first time, within the history of this country,
that there had been such a meeting for such q
purpose. a meeting OF citizens to protest
agalns an attempt to rob them Of their votes.
He urged them not to quietly submit to it, but
for each and every of them to at least attempt
to exercise their franchise AMI wac refused to
file their protest, but to go further for under
existing circumstances it would not do for right
to kick against might.
After few Introductory remarks by Mr.. Law
Ter, the following
Resolutions
we're read
whereas, it is conclusively demonstrated that
tho Republican party in Louisiana intepd by
forced new and wholly unrighteous interpreta-
ton Of the acts Of Congress providing for the
OF foreigners, to deprive a large
por' ion OF the foreign born population OF Louisi
ana OF the right of suffrage; and
Whereas the right to thus denatonalize citi-
zens Of the Republic is denied by the entire bar
Of the city OF New Orleans, and has been denied
BY the brightest legal intellect of the State bar
since the admission of Louisiana into the Federal
Union, and is now only claimed by the de tdcto |
Attorney General Of this State whose official ex-
stence depends upon the rejection Of foreign |
'orn voters from the polls on the I'd November. |
lext: and |
Whereas, by this contemplated outrage, based
lpon an opinion manufactured to order by an |
Inscriptions partisan, from eight to twelve |
thousand Of our number are suddenly stripped |
Il all their privileges Of American citizenship;
nd
Whereas, the same INSCRIPTIONS parties who
md to-day one pretext to rob larg" portion Of
ur brethren of their rights, will be equally
cute hereafter in discovering hidden defects or
hat they may consider such, and reduce US all
. state of uncertainty as to our status, which
J at once degrading and annoying therefore be
Resotced, by the foreign born citizens of Ne,c
'rleans IN mass meeting assembled, That we de-
ounce this contemplated invasion of our rights
an outrage against the genius of American
as an electioneering trick Of polit
al party, careless of the dearest rights of others
! subscribing it's own corrunt ends and as an
xample, which if followed, will render it impos-
bic Tor any foreigner to be naturallzed in Louisi-
na at any time by any court.
RESOLVED, That we rail- upon our brothers Of
le North and West to witness the deg radiation
, which we are about to be subject, in being de-
rived Of the right of suffrage, to which we, rs
merican citizens, are entitled, and that we
ijure the foreign-born citizens all over the
epublic, in their own interests, to hold to a
.rict responsibility the political party which
,us DISTINGUISHES us, and to see to it that the Ii
over which they now WELD only to Cypress is
rested from their unworthy hands, lest they
be made, hereafter. the victims Of
milar Vaccinations.
Resolred, That on Nov. I'd next, we must recog-
ize no difference between ourselves and our
Bow citizens Of American birth, and that we
III cast our ballots in the same box as other
merican ci liens.
ReW1sed, That the thanks Of oil naturalized
items are due and are hereby rendered to the