The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-20
COLORED CONVENTION
ANOTHER sTORMY sRssION-A DUEL
AvERTED.
The Emigration Movement Endorsed.

The Emigration Movement TndOrsed.
| Tho eolored convention re-assembled ai
II 40 o'clock yesterday, and after the usua
prayer. Hebert or the third ward, after hard
struggle got the floor and informed the con.
yention that he thought there was every
reason why the colored man should go from
the State and he moved the previous question,
the same being Bryants resolution
INDoRsfNG THE EMIGRATION MOVEMENT
introduced the day previous. The question
was put and the resolution was declared
adopted by a unanimous vote, notwfthstand-
Ing the fact that number Of persons voted
III the negative.
The chairman announced Byant Harrison
and the melancholy man from Madison par
ish as the pilgrims to Mobile, to attend the
mass meeting at that city on Monday.
A member took the floor to say that he
thought the chair should be very careful In
making his selections for the committees to
sit after the convention, and this gave the
melancholy man from Madison an opportun-
ity to make the point Of order that mo mem
Der has right by comments or Illustrations,
to dictate to or encourage the chair
The chair ruled the point well taken, and
the member disappeared and wasn't heard Of
nor seen afterwards.
The committee on address reported that
they considered the document originally sub
mtted by them to be about as good a paper
as anybody could prepare, and they had
therefore decided to reject all amendments
suggested by the less enlightened members
OF the convention who were not members OF
the committee. The
READING OF THE ADDRESS
was called for, and J. q. Lewis, the witness
with the smiling face, waded through 1t.
Al stated III the report Of the proceedings
Of the preceding day, 1t was simply long
drawn-out assertion that large Republican
majorites In designated parishes had been
overawed by small Democratic minoritles;
that the Democratic party had violated all It's
pledges to the country and the colored people;
that 1t was time to show the people of the
South that unless the rights Of the colored
man were respected they would ''fiee from
the wrath to come, and 1t concluded with a
pathetic appeal to the North for sympathy,
commisseration and assistance. There was
considerable poetry mixed up with tho dry
details, which, made the reading of the docu-
the smiling face was listened to attentively
being interrupted but once. aud that once was
by a member, who announced to the chair
man that some one was committing the very
serious offense OF smoking. The chairman
humbly besOught the smoker to extingush
his roll OF tobacco and the reading. went on
until finally was reached and passed
The adoption Of the address was moved
and amidst considerable eOmmotion the vote
was taken and the document declared adopted
10 ttft avr fssI f.
be recognized as having the floor, but SwaZey,
of nowhere In particular, having the stontest
lungs, succeeded In having the chair declare
that his turn to make spectacle OF himself
had come. His grievance WAS that the official
journal had editorially denounced the con-
yention as
A MOB OF IRRESPONSIBLE POLITICIANS,
and he wanted to say that the official journal
was mistaken. He also complained that the
rights Of the free cOlOred men VI Louisiana
had been grossly violated, only ten minutes
before he took the floor, bya reporter of one
81 the papers, who had cruelty and remorse !,
lessly smoked fully half O cigarette. in def |
Rnce Of the fact that the members Of the con-
vention were not accustomed to good tobacco,
and suffered from naseau whenever the smell |
Of Ii offended their uncducated nostIiis. IT. |
IRENE ndous applause
DeSduneS got excited over the fact that the |
on business We're likely to make a
report which he would probably not indorse. |
He was finally, but after much trouble, sub
dued.
Dave Young introduced a resolution pro-
viding for q committee of seven to attend the
Mississippi convention and report the result
OF the meeting to the proper standing COM
mittee Of the present body. Motions tu table
came from all parts OF the House, and the ex
was Tor a few moments intense.
Dave Young asked the indulgence Of the
body, so that he might make u speech. He
was ruled out of order, and thereupon he
moved y suspension Of the rules to take up
the resolution, and again u motion to table
came from twenty different members., The
convention refused 10 table, but the chairman
decided that the body had refused to suspend
the rules, and that the resolutions were re-
ferred To the committee on business.
The melancholy man from Madison raised
a TO " by II motion to reconsider the vote.
Rev. Newman, the peace-maker, took the
floor, and by renewing his threat of the police,
MS made the previous day, and by appealing
to their sense Ut honor" and for Gods sake,
to keep quiet, endeavored to quel the storm.
cIuded his pathetic address the melancholy
man again took the floor. and the comnnotion
again broke out with una ated violence.
The chairman. however, put In his oar, and
succeeded in convincing the body that what
the melancholy man might say could do no
harm and less good. and they concluded to
let him go in, and in he went; and, after talk
Ing fifteen minutes, he succeeded In making
his hearers understand that he was violently
opposed to Dave Young's resolution, aud in
conclusion he moved the reconsideration of
the vote by which, the resolution was referred
to the committee on business.
Dave Young then effulged. He was promptly
called to order for asserting that he did not
intend to appeal to the prejudices OF an infu-
rated mob He explained hist he had not
said where the mob was, and the convention
was Modified, and he was allowed TO say that
he knew that the men who we're crying down
his resolution had no intention of going
away. Murrill, the melancholy man OF
Madison. had arraigned him, and he wanted
to tell that man that the Democratic papers
reported that he (the melancholy man had
addressed the people Of Madison parish and
URGED THEM NOT TO GO;
told them that If they went to Kansas they
would freeze to death, and now he was here
strongly advocating the emigration move
ment.
The melancholy man wanted to know what
papers he had seen this In, and Young replied
the Vicksburg Herald and the Natchez Dem
ocrat, and the melancholy man said that the
Democrat had prevaricated. Young insisted
that the melancholy man dare not deny that