Year: 1873

y EW ORLEA NS, aIudIy o.-1 Ills even


ing's Picdyte1e reports that Pinchbeck in


an interview said: You see l am


bound to live here in this city, have a


house here and plenty of friends. If l


went anywhere else ! would not know


what to do, and it is therefore, / think, to


the interest of the people to help me


along, because l cannet but help them.


This last fight of mine against the Gus


tomhouse ring on the Senate. question


has rather made them show their hand


to the cOlored people, and if it
were possible l believe the colored


people might be induced to form


a coalition with the true and honest ma


tive white people of the State, and the


overthrow of all the chicanery and


tricks of the Customhouse ring" After


giving an opinion of how the present
complications might have been avoided,


Pinchbeck continued: "As il is, the pro-


gramme has been arranged and will be
carried out by the United States Gov
eminent. They intend to reorganize
only our government, and, unless pre-


vented by Congress, will carry it out to
the bitter end. Therefore, the Legisla-


tire has no chance to succeed, unless
they can prevail upon Congress to send
a committee of investigation, when the
whole facts will be laid before them, and
they can decide which is right. The in
terest that General Grant takes in the
fight is purely of a personal nature. He
does not care one cent what
people say against him, now as he has
reached the hight of his ambition in
being elected President for the second
term. 1t is q mistake made by many
to suppose that General Grant wants to |
be Emperor-he only desires to be a sort !
of General Washington. Washington |
was victorious, you know, in a great re-
bellion-so was Grant. Washington |
was elected to two terms-so was Grant, |
and now he is satisfied. He has not got |
ambition and tact to make q great revo- |
luton like that would require, and he |
had rather the people of the coun- |
try would not submit. The real |
cause of General Grants interest in |
the matter lies in his personal en-
nifty against Warmoth, whom he
considers one of his bitterest enc
mics. You know how he has abused
him. Well, Grant never forgives
an insult like that, and as long as he
thinks the people of this State support
Warmoth, he win be opposed to them.
He really does not himself understand
the situation. He believes that it is
Warmoth's fight to get into the United
States Senate, so that he can fight him.
Naturally enough, he opposes this, and
men here have taken advantage of it to
place the present government in power.
Why, you cannot imagine what poor
opinion the people of the North have OF
US, and it is kept alive daily by the out
rageOus statements of white Republicans
and others, who say that it is impossible
for a white man or negro to live in this
city unless he pretends to be DEM
Ocrat or has Democratic friends. You
will see by this that the sympathies
of the people of the North are against
us, and as long as we make any dis


turbance at all, it is at once cried out


that the South is still in rebellion. Now,
YOU see what 1 want to do is this: l de-


sire to do right to the people of this
State. / am the representative colored
man of this State, the South and the


Union, and as such have strength with
the Republican party. As / was born


here, live here, and have my wife, my
children and my property here, / only
desire to be allowed a chance, fair,


open chance, and | will show how am,
and can be, true friend Of our people.
There is a great, mighty change going
on in this country to-day, which few see
and are vet in it. | know there is a
dissolution of the great Southern Radi-
cal Republican party, composed
of negroes led by Northern white men.
This party has since the war been op-
posed to the resident white men, be-
cause they have hardly been allowed to
do otherwise; but the time is coming,
aud coming rapidly, when the white
and black people of the South will be
united in bond of unity, in so far as
their several positions be; and when
that time comes, then is the only hope
for the people to give me chance and
the rest of the cOlored people chance;
and we will be with you all in fairness
and honesty of dealing. 1t will be bound
to come some day, and the sooner the
better for the South and the people,