New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-08-20

| speaks this year; che moves oy gro0o
| thoughts; great things marx her progress,
| her smile js gracious to all men; sne neaps
blessings on all who seel her shores; she ls
| the marvel of the world. May God bless
! her in her struggle now against those wco
| would DESTROY her. New dangers are upon
| her and she calls on US to move forward q
that we NAV not see her brow lowered but
raised more gloriously than when she tri-
umphed over thoee who would have once
before destroyed her.
| As you know, two parties assembled
! this year and announced their platforms.
Thev are ct issue, The Republican party
| hasteps to proclaim fidelity to the Union,
and declares first that this country is ma.
| ton. We believe in the preservation OF
| the Union, says the Democratic platform.
| 1t would have been more graceful to tender
their thanks to the Republican party for
preserving the Union and giving them q
| country to live in. But they charge some
thing like this: That the Republican party
is endeavoring to excite sectional hate,
to set two people, who should be
in the last war marched to fight for the
Union, and which to fight for 9 section :
One part of their r'party attempted from the
South to riddle the constitution with bull
let's, and the Northern Democrat beckoned
them on with cheers behind the soldiers of
the Union. They were driven to silence
when the Northern Democrats were
crushed by Republican majority, and the
Southern army pulverized to atoms by that
OF the Union. It was the Republicans that
did this.
There are thousands of Democrats in the
South to-day who insist that secession was
a right, which failed only in it's first expert
meat, and was never surrendered. MIR.
Davis speeches confirm this. If the Union
is undivided, none of them are entitled to
credit, for it exists. despite their efforts, by
which tens of thousands Of noble lives on
both sides were sacrificed. If it remains
undivided, it will be because the Northern
people will trust neither Southern nor
Northern Democracy; never again will
they allow them to lay their hands on
this country as administrators of her
trusts Through the graves Of those
who fought for the Union, seventy
men, who sought to destroy it, have
marched into Congress; they are seventy
denials of the professions of the Democratic
platform; seventy witnesses of the mag
which they have sought to charge irjustice
and animosity.
If the resolution of adherence to the
Union is right now, then they were wrong
before. Has the Democratic party con-
fessed their wrong! A last witness comes.
General Nichols himself, an old Democrat,
makes congratulations and declarations in
accordance with the peaceable assertions
of his party, yet in ten minutes the con-
vention apologlzed to the White League
BY nominating Mr.. Wiltz.
1t is time that armed mobs should cease
to be esteemed and respected; time that re-
epect should not be given merely for the
color of the skin; time that an assault on q
citizen because of his skin should be con-
sidered an assault on the government, that
proeIaims the Ii Fes of its eitizens are in it's
charge. An assault on the bricks of Fort
Sumter called out all its energies. As
suredly the lives of those it has promised
to protect are as valuable, for the nation
has guaranteed. When q citizen is
shot down by the White League
the government can not condone the
crime nor abandon him. charge
directly upon the Democrats at Baton
Rouge, that they deliberately indorsed the
White League. They denounce the govern
ment the White League attempted to over
throw; they call it illegal. as did the White
League. They fail to denounce what the
League did, and then they nominate for
Lieutenant Governor the man who, as the
representative of and backed by the White
League, one year ago, attempted to seize
the House of Representatives. They fail to
condemn or denounce the ruin and desola-
ton wrought, but by this nomination il
dOrse it.
Mr.. Pitkin here showed that not one COL
ored voter would vote the Democratic
ticket unless forced by intimidation.
He continued by eaying that the State
the nation, the body within. lie might un-
bottom the one and take it of, might be a
citizen of Louisiana, Colorado or Maine,
but wherever he was no State could impair
his natural rights or defense, which the
national government would protect when
the State failed to do 60. The Ku-Klux,
the Vigilants and the White League de-
clare they represent their section. And
they do so, Just go far as it does
hang or shoot black man tor.
The Democratic candidate of 1872, Horace
Greeley, said q government that did not
prevent its citizens from robbery, fraud or
murder, or deprive him of his rights, was
sham. The speaker then referred to
Marshal Packard. His character was
clothed with iron mail, and every shaft
hurled at him breaks as it strikes. 1t is
admitted by the Times and Rcayune, and
by the Democratic committee, that he
is not corrupt. The Democrats ask for
execution of the laws. So he has
executed them, not as the Democratic COM
mittee would interpret them, but only as
they stood. One thing was certain, when
ever a man stretched forth his hands for
aid S. B. Packard, as Governor, would EN-.
ploy the whole force Of Louisiana to insure
that Justice was done him. Now colOred
man might be chased from here to St. Louis
and shot there in the presence of the Demo
cratic convention, and under one clause OF
shouldered his gun and marched off. This
clause is most suspicious. In it the serpent
lies coiled, ready to dart out it's fangs, as it
did on the fourteenth of September. 1t
proclaims equal rights under laws of "Our
own enactment" Not the laws enacted by
the colored man. In this equivOcal SEN
tence is embodied the whole history Of the
fight. 1t is the fight renewed. The clause
is q fair avowal of the old hatred against
shoulders the responsibility of lattack-
ing it' Yes, S. B. Packard. What did
they say ON it at Baton Rougel Moth
ing specific. Are we not ready to
meet it! Yes. How many colored men
will 20 to the polls and vote the Democratic
ticket on that! None. They will not vote
for the Democrat who has one hand full of
promises and holds Q pistol in the other.
The Republican party saved you from
suffrage in the constitution of the country,
not az white or black men but simply as q
citizen.
He closed by saying that there was one
man who kept his forefinger on these
amendments, and the other stretched out to
collar the man who violated them, and
called fer three cheers for S. B. Packard,
which were given with Q will.
Colonel James Lewis was next called on,
and referred in detail to both tickets, ma
tional and State, claiming that the ballot
box would show q universal triumph for
Hayes and Wheeler and for Packard and
Antoine. The Democratic party had 90
awallowed fha C0naArYafiVA nartY that