New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-10-15

take an ignorant man or child and make OF
him . General, or greater and better, >
mechanic and inventor. / defy you to show
me anywhere ia his;orys free people who who
SON is that Without it they per
ished and without is there can be
no progress. No people can keep up with
out it. You may ride on tt as on . locono-
tive, or lie down before it and be run over
by it. It will make very little difference to
the locomotive. The Democracy are like
Ignorance; they are always subject to some
body.
To-day the policy of the Republican party
in educating ell, may cause some child in
arms in this audience to become savior
ocrstic party because it is the foe
of all education. Go among the
pines OF Georgia, the slashes of Carolina,
or the swsmps and canebrakes of Louisi-
ana, among the bulldozers, and you will
find all in the bondage Of ignorance. See
our DOOR, unfortunate city, her dilapidated
public buildings. wharves falling, broken
bridges, her cisterns dry, and women and
children around r-2lugs seeking for u
bucket full, streets without keg of paint
on them from one end to the other, tenants
unable to pay their rent, and land.
lords dependent ON them, aud you
can not say this is ali caused
by Republican misgovernment. Chicago
was burned to the ground, but to-day she
is prouder and richer than ever, claiming q
half million of people. She is under the
heaven. Why Is she not "a New Orleans!
It is the same a. Of two plantations. The
owner who stays at home and attends
to his business, while the other rune
around and talks politics. will soon be
likely TO own both. 1t is useless to charge
Governor KELLOGG with this. He has not tho
power; NO man, not even Alexander, evsr
had. Il it vere 30, Why il not al the st.to
alikea Why IL it that one side Of the river 10
prosperous and the other mott that the cthe,
side last year produced 81. 900 more hogs
heads than thisf
ColoIel Burwell closed by referring to
the importance of the colored people to the
South, the necessity of all educated and
statesmanlike people mingling With and
iDstructing them and their power for good.
He assured his audience that the Republi-
South, had given the cont.sct to open the
river, was able to give still. greater aid, but
from the Democratic party nothing Was to
be hoped. ur.-
Mr.. j. n. Vance was tho next
speaker, aud mstie IN eloquent speech,
comparing the Republican and Democratic
parties and their promises and deeds to the
coiored people, The Republican party had
saved the Union, was tho party of equal
rights and justice and universal education,
had given suffrage to them, and improved
the rational credit. The colored people
were bound by justice and gratitude to sup
pore il. He then referred to the Demo
cratic party in its past and present career,
and clsimed that none could aid it now or
raise hand to save it from inevitable ruin.
j. C. Walker, Esq followed. He con-
sidered this momentous occasion, and was
glad that all were assembled to consider it
calmly, as sober-minded citizens. He
styled their opponents the so-cslled Demo
cratic party, made up Of few strsgglers
and the scattered vestiges Of all opponents
of the Republican party, now bowling re-
form, but could tell them they were much
mistaken if they supposed they could carry