Year: 1867

tion with you. There is ample room for that
between you and the leader of the Democratic
party of the North, but for myself and the Re
publican party, Imsy say, shake not your cory
locks at u.s. for you cannot say we dld IL nap
PLY these things belong to the past. In all this
broad land no man owns mis- brother man You
men of color, citizens of louisiana who wear
the livery Of Africa's FURNISHED sun, give
thanks unto God that He has turned ana over
turned until the humbest among you STANDS
erect in majesty of freemanhood, the equal
Of your fellow man before the laws OF your
country as you are before the benehcent Father
Of all. He guided the pen OF Abraham Lincoln
while writing the proclamation OF emanclpa-
tion, and they who enacted the civil Rights
bill, and the Military bill TO secure the enforce
mentof its provisions, went reverently to Him
for counsel, and recognized His sovereign pre-
sence in their midst. My white felow-citizens,
let me say to you that you are charged with
duty grander than is often conflded to gene
ration OF men: You are to unite with those
whom through life you have been taught to
despise as an inferior race in organizing party
in Louisiana in harmony with the great Re-
publican party of the North.


AS an evidence of the folly of endeavoring to
cut themselves off from the national Govern
ment, he pointed to the ruined levees and the
destruction spread over the land The repairs
oflevees was national question Neither the
people nor the State kept them in good order.
One state made good levee laws, and others
made bad ones. One State kept them in good
order, others did not; and the neglect OF one
brought destruction on the whole He pledged
himself to use his influence in Congress to
levees, provided they carried out the Recon
struction law IN good faith, and did justice TO
the negro. After q few remarks as to the GER
tain prosperity OF New Orleans, the speaker
concluded thuS:-Rest not your experiment
upon the embodiment in constitution or law OF
abstract principles, but see 10 it that they are
embodied practically. If you rise to the prompt
accomplishment of this great work, the day of
strife will have passed, and the American
sword may be beaten into ploughshare, and a
nation that in It's infancy put into the field and
kept there for four years, during which the
bloodiest and best contested battles of
history were fought, armies each num-
bering more than million men, need fear no
foreign war Let u.s. then, not grieve over the
past, but, batting no Jot of heart or hope move
onward in our great work, and the struggling
millions OF Europe will find encouragement in
our labors, and innumerabe posterity will rise
to revere our country's flag, to hail those who
fell martyrs in its maintenance and those who
through the civil strife completed their work,
blessed among men. Uong and continued ap-
plause)


Resolutions were adopted charging Andrew
Johnson with the responsibility of the July
riots, favoring impeachment, and heartily en-


Rev. Mr. Conway made a stirring speech, and
one of the largest and most orderly meetings
ever held in New Orleans dispersed without
the slightest confusion or disturbance the
clubs marching off past the Republican news
paper offices and st. Charles Hotel, where Judge
Kelley Is stopping, cheering Justify, and waving
the United States flag. There were some thou
sands of negroes at the meeting, some of whom,
when slavery was mentioned, cried out, "Give
1t to him hard hit him again, Massa Kelley!'