Year: 1872

representatives and unite with the whit
| people of the State in forming solid white
! party.


The Kellogg ticket will then combine
| simply the black vote of the State, will
! 5000 or 1000 white carpet baggers and Gus
| tOmhouse and pOstOftice employees. The
| white vote will this time be fully pOlled


Making the proper allowance for absence
| from the polls, from any cause, and there


will at least be $1,000 white votes pOlled
| This, against your $1,000 white and black
votes, will defeat you by $4,000 or 20,00t
majority. Let me give you another reason
why you Will be defeated. | have not hith
ertO taken into account the effect of the
State patronage and the control of the cleo


ton, which is vested in a commissioner OF
election and registrars, which will this


time be in the hands of the Liberal party


Nor had taken into account the luke


warmness and apathy of your people,


which l have reason to know, and you


know, is becoming very general through


out the State Nor have l taken into aC-


count the fact that you will not make a


canvass in this State this election. You


will only 90 into the river parishes and


those near the railroads. In a vote of


black against white you will not reach the


interior counties of the State.


Now, glance for moment at the results


of defeat, In the first place you have a


hostile Governor and State officers through


out; you have a hostile Legislature COM


posed of Democrats and men who believe


in a white mans government, with the eX-


ceptiOn of a few struggling cOlOred men,


available, manageable, purchasable, who


will rather be an assistance to your enc


mics than barrier against them. You will


also lose the city aud parish of Orleans.


You will then be without a cOlOred man in


the city government, on the streets, or on


the police, or anything in the patronage of


all its departments. With the Legislature


in the hands of your enemies the laws


which have been passed for the protection


of your race, and your school law, and all


the liberal laws relating to you will be in


danger of repeal. Not only that, but the


very bulWark OF your rights, your COnStitu-


ton will be in their hands to repeal at any


moment they desire, without solitary


Congressman on the floor to defend you.


Look at another result of your attitude to-


ward Mr.. Greeley and the Liberal party.


When Greeley is President as he is bound


to be as sure as the sun shines-these Dem


Ocratio gentlemen elected to Congress from


Louisiana will go to him and say, "sir, you


were elected il Louisiana by the votes of
our own people alone; the black people rs-
fused to place trust in you; you owe moth
ing to them, and we demand all your pa


trOnage for your friends would have sup
ported US


Therefore, in all the rooms of that big
granite CustOmhOuse building there will
not be a single cOlOred man employed.
Swarm upon swarm of young white men,
who will have voted in the election of the
President and his friends, will have claims
upon them, and will be found cOntesting
for every position now in the possession of
a colOred man. And, still more, the whole
of these people, put in office, and from the
Governor down will be elected upon an I'm
derstanding between them that this is to be
a white mans government, and you are to
be kept down, the reason of that under
being your action to-day in resist
ing the advances that they have made.
Right here let me aliude to conversation
which had day before yesterday with your
Lieutenant Governor, who now sits in front
OF me- 1t was an interview OF an hour and
a half. during which time he made to me
the most powerful and pathetic and urgent
appeal which man ever made to man, I'M
plOring me under every consideration OF
obligation to you, of interest, Of duty and of
attachment, not to take the course which [
am about to pursue, but, instead, after
making the most determined fight that |
could upon this floor and urging you with
all my power and all the argument which |
could present to take the course which L am
now urging you to take, then to submit to
J 8 }
and fortunes with yours.


/ asked him at that interview, "Gov-
ernOr, what do you expect by running a
straight ticket, or even if you should re-
ceive the compromise which you expect
from the Kellogg ticket by supporting that!
Do you not grant that the probability Is
that such ticket would be defeatedE
He answered me, "Hes." ''ThGn,' said l,
'why is it that you prefer such a course to
an alliance with the Liberal party?" l also
brought the fact to his attention that he
had rejected the prOudest opportunity, in
my opinion, Of his life. He had offered to
him the Opportunity of being sent to Con
greSs by the white vote of this State as well
as the black, and there standing, for the


first time, a COlOred man, a representative
elected by both the white and COlOred vote.
pointed to him what immense power he
could WELD in that position for his own
race; that with Mr. Greeley in the presi-
1entiaI chair he would have exclusively
ais ear upon all matters pertaining to the
of COlOred people in the Gus
and in foreign positions. | said
10 him, "Why do you reject thi5!' He
answered that he was afraid of mourning
your disapprObation.


l asked him why he would take place
lpon the Kellogg ticket in the face of prob
able and sure defeats He answered that
.he admission they made by placing him
here at this time would contradict their
statements to President Grant last year,
hat he and his friends represented no one.
But l asked him, what will you do in
case of defeat and what is yOur COmpen-
satiOn, then, for this course p He answer
I'd, 1.-TWO years from this time | will 90
back to my people and show them that my
record is consistent, and rally them again
TO the contest under the banner of Repub
I uoSl 70 lr1r do
you remember, Governor, if defeat over
5akes your people in consequence of their
,aking the course which you are now advis-
ng them to follow, that in two years from
his time you will have no people to 20 back
TO-" And to that point | wish to call your,
attention, gentlemen of the convention.
Remember that If you once allow white
mans party to get into power in all the
branches of the State government, upon an
mans government alone, that you will be
a disintegrated, isolated, helpless and pow
9rless-nOt peOple-but mass OF small,
distinct communities


To-day, in this State, there are parishes
n which you have no clubs, no speakers,
no leaders in which the cOlOred people for
The past four years have had cOmmunIca-
lion with the Republican party in this State.
If defeated in this contest, all the parishes
Df this State, except a few immediately
New Orleans and on the river
will be the same as st. Landry, jackson,
Franklin, Caldwell and Winn are now. II
yhis convention take the course advised by
Governor Pinchback to-day, two years from
this time there will not be a single Repub
Ican Convention sitting in this State repre-
senting anybody but these few immediate
parishes. When Governor Pinchback goes
back, two years after his defeat, to appeal
again to his people with those clarion notes
Which have reaonnded so often thFOughOut