New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-06-24

Put tnere was . time when was moi
TrlPplo. There was . time when 1 wae
UaE1;s Uniy 2 nominee for Congress under the Re
TSISosn party, under that name, and for Z
teri t~A7'A' s"~ A"o4n'
since that time the Republican party has
ths g9ea detrimental in making moro history
.nsn any party that has ever existed
unoer the heavens. (Cheers.l TODAY f
representa- certain great principles. certain
;oeaS Liberty has always been the lead
ing characteristic of the party. The Demo
cratio party, our opponents, they also, az
~ ~ orgsnizauon, are champions Of Hbsrty.
and assassinate white mems reputations.
| loud cheers We claim there should be
IN TINS broad land one manner of citizens:
We claim that there should be one manner
OF laws and that the law should be in.
10rced in every place of tho land. We
ciaim that 1t the federal government has
ene right to fight pirates on the seas in de-
Ienee OF American citizens, they have the
| right to fight the Ku-Klux in our own land
| IVociferous cheers.l
FOR these two things, for the protection
OF every citizen in every part Of the land,
we are ready, not only to vote, but to fight.
| and, cripple as am, would rather die in
the ditch than 20 see the Republican party
take one step backward. have said that
II was principle of the Republican party
tnAt we must have one kind Of citizen only,
so Tar as rights are concerned. No matter
ABOUT the color; no matter about wealth or
poverty. Ii he be citizen he is entitled
to equal protection.
The broad principle of our constitution
is simply this: Every man in the and is
emitted to no privileges over any other
mau. This is the principle that underlies
our whole creed. Do not 20 back on it.
Never lear y0ur enemies. A bold fight is
the best. We should advance and not re.
trograde. But, sir, I ought not to have
consented to come up here at all. Fred
y ouglass is in the hall; he's not much
blacker than I am, but he il smarter, and I
hope you will give him call.
A motion by . delegate from Michigan to
adjourn until ten O'Clock to morrow morn
ing was lost. The convention then raised
. unanimous cry for Fred Douglass, who
came forward TO the platform and was
greeted with an outburst of applause and
cheers that shook the walls of the hall.
The Chair-Gentlemen of the convention,
Frederick Douglass needs NO introduction
anywhere in the United States. [Cheers |
SPEECH OF FRED DOUGLASS.
Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Ma.
tional Republican Conventlon-Allow me
to express my deep. my heartfelt gratitude
to you for the warm, the cordial invitation
yOu have extended to me to make my ap-
work to which you have called me is some
what new. 1t is the first time in my life
that lave ever had the pleasure of look.
ing the Republican party in the face Zap
plause and laughter], and I must cay, and
hope y0u will acquit me of everything
like . disposition to fstter, that you are
pretty good looking men. Laughter and
applause But will not dstain you here
by any attempt At speech: You have had
speeches. wise speeches, patriotic speeches,
speeches in respect of the importance of
managing correctly your currency, speeches
in defense of the purity Of the administra-
ton, and speeches in respect of the great
principles for which you struggled, and
which the race to which belong struggled
on ths battlefield and poured out their
blood. [Cheer.l
The thing, however, in which feel the
believe this country feels the deepest inter
est, is that the principles involved in the
contest which carried your sons and broth
ers to the battle field, which draped our
Northern churches with the weeds of
mourning, and filed our towns and cities
with mere stamps of men-armleee, legless,
MANNED and mutilated-the thing for which
you poured out your blood and piled debt,
for coming generations. higher than 3
mountain Of gold, to weigh down the necks
of your children and your childfen's chill
dren, say those principles involved in that
tremendous contest are to be dearer to the
American people, in the great political
struggle now upon them, than any other
principles We have. (Applause and cheers.
You have emancipsted rs and thank
you for it. You have enfrsnchised us and
thank Won for it. But what is your eman-
cipstione What is your enfranchisement
What does it all amount to if the black
man, after having been made free by the
letter of your law, is unsble to exercise his
freedom, and, having been freed from the
Shareholders lash he is to be subject to tha
shareholders shotgunsa [Cheers.l Oh
you freed us, you emancipated rs. thank
vou for it, but under what circumstances
did you emancipate Us? Under what cir
cumstaces have We obtained our freedom
Sir, our case 10 the most extraordinary
case of any people ever emancipated on the
globe. l sometimes wonder that we still
exist as q people in this country, that we
have not been al swept out of existence
and nothing left to show that We ever ex-
isted. Look at it when the Israelites were
emancipated. They were told to 60 and
borrow of their neighb0rs, borrow their
coin, borrow their jewels, load themselves
down with the means of subsistence alter
they should 60 free in the land which the
Lord God gave them. When the Russian
serfs had their chains broken, and were
given their liberty, the government e. ot pas Kus,
sic, aye, the despotic government OF Russia
gave TO those Door emancipated eerfs few
acres of land on which they could live and
earn their bread, but when you turned US
loose YOU gave us none. You turned us
loose to stay the storm. the whirlwind, and
worst of all, you turned rs loose to the
wrath of our infuriated masters. lap
plause
make good its promises IN your Scns',,u. COTS nnt
of mere reform in your administration.
(Applause believe there 10 honesty IN
the American people, honesty in the men
whom YOU elect, wisdom in the men to
manage those affairs. But tell me, II your
heart be as my heart, that the nDerty
which YOU have asserted for the black man
in this country shall be maintained! Ap'
plause.]
The nomination of Mr.. Wheeler, of New
York. for Vice President is what may be
called . 'judicious" selection. 1t assures
New York to the Republicans. 1t satisfies
George William Curtis, Whitelsw Reid and
other like gentlemen. But the animstlng
life and soul-force of the Republican presi-
dential ticket for 1876 is Governor Hayes,
Of Ohio, and the things for which he stands.
In nv next letter will give the effect OF
the nomination of Mr.. Hayes in New Eng
land. With New England solid for the Re-
publicane, with New York, New Jersey and
safe on the same side, we
.b.ll invade the West under the lead OF
Rapublican Ohio and sweep all before US.
Ihaad this letter, "Watchman, tell US OF