The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-12-12
PINCHBACK'S MEETING.
What It Did.

| There was "mass meeting" at the Mechan
les Institute last night. =" mass meeting o
colored citizens. friends, lovers and supporter
OF Pinchback.
| The meeting was called as published I'll
accordance with instructions from the Committe'
of Nineteen, appointed by the Convention OF Ooi
ored Men, held in the Free Mission Bapus
| Church, November %. 1875, to take into consld
| Grafton the seating of Senator Pinchback the
protection Of the colored voter, and the calling o.
| convention of colorcd citizens"
The meeting was called for o'clock, and
promptly at half past 6 the hall, ior wnlcn sou
| COLLECTED by Hebert) had been paid some ten
minutes previous, was lighted up, and thirty
minutes after, at P. NJ, the appointed time,
there must have been fully twenty-five people
present. Stamps, who had called the meeting as
'sPresident" OF the Pinchback meeting az me
boothby was present; Brown, superintendent q
Public Education, was in attendance, as were
most of the other members OF the Schooi board.
The meeting was not called to order at +. Nj
but carriers were dispatched 70 the DARRELL
houses back of town to aIum up crowd.
By 1880 O'Clock about fifty OF the seventy Six
chairs in the hall were occupied, and at o'clock
they were all fl led, and several-at least four
persons were standing up. 80,
The meeting was called to order. stamps did
it. and in carefully prepared speech announced
the objects.
Itmay be well to note here, so that there may
be no false ideas about the attendance, that dur
ing the proceedings OF the evening . number
dropped in and there might have been hum
dred-certainly ninety-friends and lovers of
Plnchback on hand.
Stamps called G.. c. Antoine to the chair, and
Antoine, aided and assisted by committee, took
the chair, and the ninety or one hundred, as In
duty bound stamped their feet and clapped their
hands, and Antoine announced thathe was happy
and that the honor was unsolicited and unex-
pected. The regulation speech.
At the solicitation Of Stamps, Dejole read list
of vice-presidents The list numbered ninety
throe names, and included, among otners, the
following illustrous ones: W. L. Evans J. NJ. G..
Parker, r. ITALIAN, G. w. Boothby, 7. T., Herwig,
J. H Burch, J. U. Hartzell, D. D., J. G. Brown
and W. Il. Fish.
During the reading Of the list Dejoie requested
several Of those in attendance to :" take the wax
out of their ears" and was himself requested to
dispense with the further reading, but ne finally
Antoine called for the Pinchback address, and
it was produced by Supt. Brown, and by him
read.
The Pinchback address was an address to
Pinchback, and told him how and when he had
been " elected" ~ and assured him that he had
not been seated because he was OF African
descent and in conclusion assured him that
when he was at last satisfied that the nation did
not desire his services, and he came back he
would receive proper welcome.
Brown retired disappointed, because the ex-
pected applause was not forthcoming.
Burch was next app aled to, and for the edii-
cation Of the ninety or one hundred read an adj
dress to the National Committee of the Republi.
can party, the National Union League Of Ameri-
ca the Central Executive Committee OF the
Republican party Of this State, and all lovers OF
universal suffrage, humanity and justice.
The address at the outset related the same old
and stale and false story of the oppression Of the
poor, innocent and unoffending negro in the
South and then reminded the National Repub
lican Committee and all tho rest that during the
war "the colored troops fought nobly," and gave
them to understand that curing the revolution
they (the colored troops) did the same thing.
Bancroft was quoted to prove this. 1t then in
formed the National Republican Committee and
the rest that the colored people could fight as
we'll now as they had fought before but they did
not want to do it; they were law abiding Ameri-
can citizens, who would rather be " slaughtered"
than protect themselves, and in conclusion the
address demanded that the National Republican
Committee should protect them.
Senator Allan took the floor when the motion
to adopt was put, and opposed it. The address
was sent out as an address Of the cOlored people
Of the State, when it was an address Of q COM
nittee, appointed at meeting held in this city,
called by several prominent cOlored men. He
thought the address should be referred to q COM
mittee composed Of five Republicans from each
District.
He objected to the address as emanating from
colored men alone, because white Republicans
were as much oppressed as colored Republicans.
Geo. Herbert and j. Henri Burch both re-
sponded and made speech for the benefit Of the
re porters, to whom they addressed themselves
Herbert did MT say anything worth recording,
Ind the only thing that Burch said, which was
worthy Of mention, although he talked for three
quarter of an hour, was that Packard had seen
The address, and Thought it the best thing the
,olored men could do
After Stamps and Ray had relieved themselves,
he address was adopted and the meeting ad
burned.