New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-06-01
sion followed, bu: in the end ballot was
taken, with the following result:

SouAtOr - HO0neV W 06S....................... 06S l
Colone! James Lewis. observation-disclosures. 6la
non. ". It. Brown. 8Of
AOtaI........ ............................. los
President Beattie declared that there was
no choice, no candidate receiving a majority
of the vote and referring it to the conven.
ton, it was decided that o second ballot
should be taken on Messre. Lewis and
Brown.
The roll being again called the vote
stooG:
BOZ W u. Br0wn.. ........................... 81
Colonel Jamoe Lewis. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 65x
Senator J. &. West. ...........................
1iduA
Total. .N5k
Before the vote was announced Colonel
Lewis rose and said that his friends having
kept tally, he learned that he had not re-
| celved msjority Of the votes, and desired
that the convention would elect Mr.. Brown
by acclamation.
His motion was carried amid great ap-
plause.
A recess was here taken till about nine
o'clock, that the congressional districts
might select delegates.
At that hour the reports from those dis.
| tricts were called for, with the following re-
suit:
First District-W F. Loan, fifteenth
ward, Orleans; Canon j. Adolphe, seventh
ward, Orleans.
Second Dislrict-Henry Demas, St. John;
| X. H. ChadbOurn, St. Charles.
! Third District-C. B. Darrau, St. Mary;
| George Drury, Assumption alternate;
| Pierre Landry, Ascension; s. Wakefield,
Iberia alternate.
| Fourth District-G. L. Smith, Caddo;
| George Y Kelso, Rapides.
! Fifth District-Dav,d Young, Concordia;
| W. J. Q. Baker, Ouachi:a. alternate; George
| B. Hamblett, Ouachita; j. Ross Stewart,
| Tensas, alternate.
Sixth District-Cbarles E. Nash, st. Ian
dry; E. L. Weber, West Felicisna. alter
| nate; j. Henri Burch, East Baton Rouge;
| j. E. Breaux, Point Coupee, alternate.
On motion of Mr.. Drury these reports
were adopted as the action of the conven.
| ton.
On motion of Mr.. Pinchback the report
| of the committee on resolutions was re-
ceived, and read by the chairman, Mr. Fish,
as follows:
WHEREAS, The Republicans of the United
| States have within the first century of ma
| tiOnal existence, established against foreign
opposition and domestic dissent, the grand
and comprehensive principle that the SOW.
ereignty Of the nation is derived from, and
abides in, the whole equal people of the
nation, and that the only earthly limit rpon
that sovereignty consists in that which the
people of the nation impose upon themselves
through the grants and reservations of q ma
| tiOnal constitution, paramount to all other
| law and interpreted only in accordance
with its own provisions by the legislature or
| judiciary of the nation.
Resolred, That the Republicans of Louisi-
| ana tender the Republicans of the nation
! their sincere gratitude for the institution
/ and maintenance of this principle, as we'll
ss for the momentous measures enacted un-
| der its authority, and hereby pledge their
earnest aid and cooperation in perpetuating
! these principles.
| Resolced, That in pledging themselves to
the support and service Of the common
cause, the Republicans of Louisiana would
respectfully submit some measures of ma
tional policy essential in their opinion to the
| practical and equal application Of the na.
tional principle enounced:
l. The nomination of candidate for the
Presidency whose personal character will
! afford . guarantee of an honest, able,
economical and effective administration of
the national government upon Republican
| principles.
,. A system of federal finance which will
insure the collection Of the revenues. pun
| ish all official or other frauds upon the
! treasury, and bring about . steady, speedy
| and permanent return to the payment Of
! specie into and out Of the treasury in all
| federal transactions
3. A system of revenue, taxation and as
| sessment which, while it shall provide
| ample means to meet the public expendi-
| lures and obligations, shall also assume the
| protection of certain national interests
! against the destructive competition Of for
| eign productions, especially insisting that
| the capital and labor employed in the
| production OF the national staples of sugar
| and rice should be included among any
| articles entitled to such protection.
a. The just apportionmsnt Of federal ap-
| preparations for national works of internal
! improvement. Taking into account the
immense advances received by cur more for
| tunate sister States during the period when
Democratic domination denied to the
Southern States their just share of the
common fund, such measure of eGu3liZa-
| ton would justify national aid to q South
western Pacific railroad and branches, to
the protection by levees of the capital and
labor employed in the culture OF cotton,
| sugar and rice, and to the effectu al naviga-
tion of the Mississippi river, its principal
| tributaries and its outlet.
Resolred, That our delegates to the
National Republican Convention at Gin
cinnati are lntrusted with the presenta-
ton and representation Of these resolu-
tione, and shall regard their only instruc-
tiOns as embodied therein. They will be
thus left entirely free and untrammeled to
choose among the eminent names presented
to the convention for nomination as the
Republican candidate for the presidency of
the United States, and to cast the vote of
the Republicans of Louisiana for a nominee
whose record shall have been found il
strict conformity with the cardinal and
constitutional principles of Republican
government, announced in the preamble of
meat ures enacted to yive effect to the same.
Resolred, That to President Grant are due
the earnest thanks and hearty indorsement
of the Republicans Of Louisiana for the
fidelity with which he has maintained in
peace the great principles which the armies
of the Union under his command enforced
by war.
Resolred, That the assassination Ofsmany
hundreds Of prominent Union men in the
South on account Of their political princi-
Piles, the massacre Of thousands of iIoffen-
sive colored citizens, the relegation of
nearly all the Southern States to the con-
troll of the Iisloyal elements whose treason
brought about the war, and the cleo.
posed of ex-leaders Of the Confederate army
indicate grave national dangers which
demand the enactment of such additional
laws and the enforcement of such policy
as shall secure to every citizen Of the
United States, in fac. as we'll as in name,