The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1875-02-12
MASS MEETING IN NEW ORLEANS.
The 'sCompromise'' Denounced.

From the Picayune's report of a large
mass meeting held at Clay's statute in
New Orleans, to consider the terms of
the proposed compromise with Kellogg,
we make the following extract en-
bracing the speeches delivered on the
occasion. The views of the meeting
were expressed in strong condemnatory
resolutions which we are compelled to
omit:
After reading the resolutions, Mr..
Ellis was vociferously call upon for Il
speech.
He wanted to know by what author
ity the Conservative Representatives
proposed to compromise and pour oil
on the bleeding wounds of Radicalism.
The party is lettering to its downfall,
by blows received from Louisiana, and
there would be joy in Washington to-
night if the telegraph transmitted the
message that we had subscribed to this
! tyranny by this compromise. The
march of despOtism advanced to the 4th
Of January, when Grant proposed to say
who shall be members of a Legislature.
1t was then that the American nation
paused and listened to the story of our
wrongs. Louisiana has revived the
hopes of liberty, and shall her own
children, with lnatricidal hands, undo
the work which has been done by bar,
tering with the enemy?
Mr.. II. N. Ogden next took the stand,
and said:
This large concourse of people has a
| very grave Significance, and it is
scarcely to be doubted that caution will
be taken from it.
The speaker proceeded to treat, in a
legal manner, the merits of the I4ouisi.
ana case, and why it is that our Repre-
sentatives should not recede from the
steps they have taken.
Our Representatives have committed
a grave mistake, but trust that this
meeting INSTEAD of widening the schism,
will effectually heal it.. believe the
thing has been q mistake Of Judgment,
and they will come back again when
the will of the people is known.
i We have no desire to drive these gen.
tlemen from us. They have committed
a grave error in doing that which they
ought not to have done. A large public
meeting of this kind should have been
held some time ago, after the 18th of
January.
b. +. Jonas next came forward. He
said:
We have met here tonight, fellow
citizens, to protest against what we
have learned from the newspapers was
done by those men we have chosen to
represent us in our Legislature. We
are told that a caucus of the Legislature
have determined to recognize that
which they are requested to recognize
Administration, by the Congressional
Committee, by the party in power, by
usurpation, by fraud.
We were led to believe that this COM
promise was to restore the status that
existed ON January 4th. But the cau-
Gus last night determined that they
would acknowledge the Speaker who
was elected by fraud, the government
which you and spurn which can never
be favorable to us or our interests.
I am not the one to denounce those
! gentlemen who have voted for this
proposition; 1 do not mean to impute
to them treachery, but I say they have
been guilty of folly worse than treachery
would have been. 1 invite those gen.
tlemen who have been chosen to repre-
sent us, who are honorable men, to look
upon this great crowd of men who are
opposed to a compromise with the State
Government we have SO long and sue
cessfully opposed.
The cause for which we have spent SO
many of the best of our days, in which
the hair of many Of us has been whit
ened, is cause too precious to be thrown
away now.
The interests are too great; they have
commanded the attention of not only
every State in this Union, but of every
country in the world.
Thisproposition comes from thcNVhitc
House, from the Administrations, who
felt that the Louisiana case was too
heavy for another canvass. We have
given to the Federal Congress the right
to tcgisiatc for the people of Louisiana,
to establish or dismember the govern
ment chosen by the people.
After repeated acclamations by the
people, Gov. John McIGnery appeared
and spoke as follows:
Wherever l went to-day, in every
part of the city, found but one senti-
ment, but one voice-that the people OF
New Orleans and Louisiana would stand
by the struggle which they inaugurat-
cd on the 9th day Of January, 1872.
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