Year: 1876

III
the superiority Of Saxon civilization, still he
held that the virtues of his being eXemp-
fed in the experiment of reconstruction now
making. He then asserted that amid all the cor
ruptiOn and mismanagement which has cursed the
SOuth since the war, and for which the Northern
adventures who have to great an extent held
control there are principally responsible, not a
single negro political thi'f has ever yet been con-
vcted in the courts of justice. This cannot be said
of the white politicians Mr.. Pinchback then again
announced his determination to have the political
status Of the negro fixed in the coming canvass and
that he shall not allow personal considerations to
control him his personal fortune is sufficient to sup
port him.


He then said that his second choice among the
candidates for the Presidency whose names wond
bo presented to the Convention Is Gen. Brstow.
AS a personal friend of Charles Sumner, he con-
tnuea, he knew the motives that led him into the
Liberal movement in 1872. His own Judgment die
tated a different policy, and he did not join that
movement because he knew defeat would DO inevIta-
BILE; but he said that If Charles Sumner had lived
he would have made Gen. Grants Government hide
its face for shame for its persecution, placed the Re-
publican party on the true basis upon which popular
government is founded, and emancipated the coun-
try from the curse of personal government


TO VOTE As UNIT.


After Mr.. Pnchback finished his speech Congress
man Nash offered the following resolution, which
was adopted


ResO'ped That while the Republicans Of Louisiana
recognize honest difference OF opinion among the dcic
Cation, still they maintain that in accordance with The
resolution oI instruction passed by the late state onycn
ton in Louisiana 1t Is ls duty 20 vote as unit on all
therefore subuga'e the will of the minority TO that OF the
majority in all votes cast IN said Convention ana auhor
ze Gov. Pmchback to be the spokesman Of the dcega
ton


GRANTIsM JUDGED.


Mr. Pinchback's speech is interpreted as a distinct
notice through the Louisiana delegation TO the Re-
publican party that his influence Will hereafter be
exerted against Gen. Grant and Gen Grants friends
and that should the Kellogg Casey-Packard Ring
again obtain control of the party in that State he
will no longer support the party. 1t is difficult to
say how widespread this sentiment is among the
cOlored Republicans of the South bat it is known
to be shared by Senator Bruce OF Mississippi and by
leading colored Republicans of Alabama and other
States. The net result of Grantism in the South
seems therefore. to have been first to turn the
Southern States over to the Democratic party. and
then to acnate from itself that radical wing Of
the Republican party in whose behalf il supposed 1t
was acting.


At a serenade of the Louisiana delegation at the
Gibson House last evening, Judge Shonabcr, who
was delegate to the Liberal Convention in this
city in 1872. made short speech, IN which he sad
that while he intended to support the nominee of
this convention he was not ashamed of his record
His political birth simultaneous with that of
the Republican party, and in all his political expert
once he had felt the ostracism of power until
Gen. Grants second term His purpose was TO help
to rid the country of personal Government and
Louisiana of the curse of the Packard Casey Grant
military rule He said that during the last canvass
in his State Mr. Pnchback and he had visited those
districts of Louisiana in which the greatest disturb
ance occurred but had not been molested. All that
the South requires is that the Government shall
protect all classes in their constitutional right t.
express their political opinions through tho ballot
box.