The daily gazette., 1880-08-07
to day. Don't cast your pearls before

to day. Don't cast your pearls before
swine, gentlemen.
Mr.. Conover Of Florida objected to
any such language.
Hon. Edwards Pierrepont spoke brief
ly On the solid South.
Mr.. GOf OF West Virginia regretted
that il seemed to be the desire of the
gentlemen present to abandon the South
ern Republicans and to surrender to
their opponents.
Gov. Pinchback spoke of the colored
Republicans of the South, and claimed
that they had received no engagement.
He said they were never taught to exer-
else their manhood. They had been
told by their representatives, both white
and black, that they must not assert their
manhood, as ii was unsafe to do SO. The
danger to them they were told il they
did this was that they would grace tree
Al the end of a rope.
Hon. James G. Blaine stated that all
that had been said so far about abandon
ing The South had been said by South
ern men and not bv single Northern
man. The first work, he thought, was
to try and carry Maine; Ohio could take
care of herself. They should put all
their forces into Indiana.
Mr.. Long of Illinois said: "It we
abandon the South the Republican
pirty is at an end, and it ought to be at
an end. There has been toe much of
this reconciliation business already"
| Hon. j. G. Blaine of Maine again
spoke and got round of cheers. He
said: No Republican in the North in
tended 10 abandon the South, and it
was only Southern men who dreamed
of such thing. A campaign was
| practical business, and sentiment, glish
and bosh should have nothing to do
with 1t. First let us carry Maine," he
added, "where we are hard pressed b;
the Democrats and Greenbackers Then
let us turn our guns on Indiana, and
Ohio, and then we can 90 South; but if
we have disaster in these three States I
should not care to accept our Southern
friends Invitation to stump their State"
[Laughter.1
Secretary Sherman, who was then
called for, said that his heart beat for
all tlose men who had carried their ban
ne throu.. b the Southern st tts, be they
white or black. When the Republicans
mt money and aid to Indiana, they
"
He would give to these Southern people
in this districts they expected to carry
men, aid and money. He would not
waste money when he knew it would do
no good.
Thurlow Weed then made a brief
ad iress, IN which he said that he took
encouragement from what he had seen
and heard regarding the unanimity and
zeal awakened In the cause, and which
promised TO enlighten the canvass and
increase the vote. Too much import
ance could not be attached to the idea
of carrying the first election to be held
in any State, az this was the first express
sion of public sentimet. He thought
that the hopes of the party were CEN
centrated in the State of Maine, that
which had given an impulse to our cleo
tions for over forty years. Let every
effort be made to win In Maine aud
Indiana, and then they could attend to
this State.
The only Sta es not represented at the
conference were Oregon, Minnesota,
Nevada and Delaware. Senator Conk-
ling was stopping at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel yesterday, but was not present at
the COME renee.
The Executive Committee of the Re-
publican National Committee held a
long session last evening in the Fifth
Avenue Hotel. 1t was stated that
reports were received at the meeting
from the different States but none Of
these reports were made public. The
committee will meet again to-day.