New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-08-30


| ganizer and would be better able to devel
| op the real strength Of the Republica
party in tho State.
Pinchback at Indianapolis.
The following is from the IndianapoIi
Journal of the twenty. fifth instant:
Last night Ex-Governor P. B. S. Pinch
back addressed the largest audience eve
congregated inside the Grand Opera House
BY the time the meeting opened the hOus
was crammed with people from the floor t,
the ceiling. and many stood shoulder Il
eager to listen to the distinguished cham
pion Of the colored race. Fully three
fOurths Of the audience were white people
who were astOnished at the elOquence ani
terseness of the speaker, and by their louG
demonstrations Of applause testified to thu
perllnence of his remarke.
Mr.. Pinchback and Mr.. Tenney were es
corted from their hotel by the colorel
Hayes Guard, who performed military evO
lutiOns in manner which reflected grea
credit on both officers and men, and wor
the commendati0n Of the spectators. The
meeting was presided over by Hon. j. s
Hinton, who in q few well chosen sentences
introduced Mr.. Pinchback as a gentleman
who was the pride of his race and loyal
citizen OF the United States.
Mr.. Pinchback, who on stepping forward
was received with much cheering, said:
Ladies and Gentlemen-Fully conscious
of the Importance Of this campaign, both
to the people with whom / am identified
and to the whole people of the country,
and aware Of the interest that attaches to
the Southern question, at the solicitation OF
the Republican State Committee. l appear
before you and ask your careful considera-
ton OF what l shall say. 1t being my pur-
pose to enlist in the interest Of the nation
al Republican party every enlightened
member OF the community and those in
favor of the cause Of liberty in the South
l shall appeal to your reason and not to
your passions. Here peace and prosperity
are enjoyed: free speech and the largest
liberty exists, and any attempt to abrldge
them would raise such a storm of
indignation throughout the land that
a second attempt would not be attempted.
the stories of arson, violence and assassina-
ton in the South as mythical. But / must
tell you that the bloody shirt is no mythical
garment. When people become SO fam
iliar with crime as to seek to defend it, and
ridicule all attempts to repress it, it be-
comes incumbent on us to notice to where
we are drifting. The right Of free speech
and to bear arms were held SO dear by the
fathers of our land that they deemed them
the organism Of protection by the constitu-
ton. l hold that this question is not now
Q strictly party question; it has assumed
the phase of q sectional question. The
question is whether the South shall govern
this country or the North. Cheers 1t is
the question of whether we shall permit
those who fought for equal laws to fight
the old question over again. The party
who thought that they were born to govern
are at their old tricks again, and are On.
desvoring to gain control Of this country
for the purpose Of regaining their old dcmi
nance. 1t ls the unanimous opinion of the
elected the slaveholders will regain either
their old status or receive compensation for
the loss Of their slaves.
In Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee
they have passed laws which practically
have legielsted the colored people of those
States into slavery worse than that they
suffered previous to the war. Mr.. Pinch
back read . bill passed by the Legislature
of Texas, by which it is provided that all
persons confined in Jail in charges of hav-
ing committed misdemesnor or petty
sfense may be employed in like manner as
convicted persons; and if ad-
Judged innocent on trial may demand COM
penssti0n at the rate of from twenty-five
cents to 81 per day. Think Of that, said
he. laboring men of the North; men are to
be hired out because they have been COM
mitted to jail under charges Of which they
may be innocent. / would like to ask my
Democratic friends, if in a Northern town
people could be arrested and held to labor
by q people inimical to their interests,
what would become of these people, 80 op.
pressed, if the national government is com
mitted to the hands of the leaders of the
party inimical to these people!
do not regard it necessary to shake the
bloody shirt; it is like Banquo's ghost, and
Twill not down." 1t will haunt the nation
until the murder of the innocent victims
whose gore gave it it's crimson color, and
who we're murdered for no crime save their
devotion to the Republican party .is avenged
and their brethren protected from outrage
and wrong. l urge you not to forget the
blood and treasure you expended in obtain
ing the liberties of the colored people; you
Dan not afford to permit the atrocities that
are committed in the Southern section of
the government, and undo all you have &C.
,omplished for the relief OF down .trodden
people.
propose to show you how vast are the
interests that are bound up in the pr0tec-
ton and fosterance of the colOred people.
You now are aware of the value of the plan
tatiOns, and you know the value Of an emf
grant; that each emigrant is worth $3.50,
and that the vast section of the South re-
luires the labor of at least one million COL
9red workers. This makes the worth of
;hese men $3.50, ,0OO,O 900. If this country be-
,ame embroiled in foreign war, these peo-
sturdy fighting men. So that you see from
both q commercial and national point of
view these men are Of infinite use to the
The idea of cultivating cotton
md rice by the heather Chinee has been
ong since relinquished, and it is plain that
hat the work of cultivation must be &C.
by black labor, for such alone
8 able to withstand toll in the Southern cli-
nate. The colored population is q frugal
md industrious people; there are numbers
# them whe have built up their own homes
With the proceeds gained by the sweat of
heir brows. You must. contend, give to
hem the protection in their industrial hab.
ts which you claim tor and enjoy your
'elves.
Referring to Governor Tilden's letter of
of the South, the speaker
laid: Suppose We admit all Mr.. Tilden
'ays. Let me ask, has the North had no
Why, the city of New
York has suffered ten times more from cor
.upt government than any city in the South.
But let me ask further, did the city of New
York take f0rcible possession of their gov
,rnment in order to alter their conditiOn2
No! they have accomplished their deliver
Ince BY peaceable legislation. He con-
rasted the rule of Louisiana under Repub-
ican government with the government un-
ler Democratic rule previous to tho war.