Year: 1876




antagonized. That declaration is guar
antee that every citizen shall be protected
in life and property. Where will you find
that in the Democratic partys Il r0uses the
pride of the citizen; in Democratic
triumph the citizen will have no pride. In
Rome it was said that Roman citizen was
| greater than Q king. If the Republican
party say this then, therefore, in its triumph
! the American citizen can say he is greater


than a king. With the party in full bar
! mony, its ideas and principles as contained
! in its platform shall again rule over The
American people. Cur enemies, witnessing
the chickering's in the St. Charles Theatre
! said the party was divided. They should
have known it was not 60; that it was only
| contest for leaders, and that when that
was settled and the question was on the
| triumph Of the Republican party &ll stood
shoulder TO shoulder.


With Packard for Governor would come
peace and order. Would it be so with a
Democratic triamph2 Look ac Mississippi
| and Georgia. There can be no peace where
the government does not protect al alike.
Only the other day in South Carolina there
was cOl0red militia company marching
along the street. Two white men were
| driving in buggy, and because the COM
PAW did not get OFT Of their way COM
| planned Of them to q magistrate. and with
| the aid Of people from Georgia and some
| cannon, after driving them into q house.
killed several, wounded more, hanged some
and forced the rest to flee. Suppose
| the company had been white one, and
| there had been two colored men in
| the buggy, would such thing have occur.


red9 Suppose two men driving in buggy
| on Camp street meet IRE company, will
they make them get out Of the way, and if
| they do not will they be driven into barn
| and as many as possible killed. It makee,
| itseeme, great deal of difference who is
! in the buggy. No. there can be no peace


till all men are treated alike; no peace till
! the Democratic party is pledged to this
and carries it out. The Republican party
must have success in this election or die.
There are the rights of men as we'll ss
those of man, and whether or not the
militia company had the right to parade, it
is certain if it had been . white company
the affair would have been . very different
thing. In conclusion he pledged himself TO
do everything he could to secure the SIC
cess Of the ticket, both State and national.
Governor Wsrmoth, being introduced by
Governor Kellogg, said:


Mr.. President and Fellow-citizens- Under
other circumstances l should not have felt
it incumbent on me to leave my bed to
come here and address you. The eeige Of
nearly ten days of the Republican conven-
ton, acting on rather weak constitution,
was more than / could etand up to. NV
disease has almost become chronic, not only
with me, but almost an epidemic, that Of
too much convention. But it was not only
q duty to those thank for their hearty and
cordial support in the convention; nos only
my duty to the Republican party, especially
as was q candidate before the convention.
but to my higher self, to come and state my
| confidence in the ticket. and that l am
ready to do all in my power to assist 10 its


success, and say that all past chickering's
of fello wship, will welcome the coming tri-
umph of November. It is right to do
this, because on the success Of the Repub-
lican party depend our lives and happi-
ness, and the peace and prosperity OF the
State. 1t is necessary that the Repub-
lican party should triumph. that there may
be government that will have the conf
dence OF the whole people; that within the


law they may think, speak and Go as they
think proper. l do rot believe in govern
| ment elected by the White League.
Such q government. as is the Demo


cratic party, would be inspired by bit
terness and race prejudices; the bitterness
of the race question in politics: the bitter
ness of having been kept out go long. Even
now We see armed militia. clubs, secret go
cieties, in which race is made condition.
i
simply and purely white.


When, in 1872. l and some of my friends
bolted, and We went with the fusion of the
Democrats, we made it q doctrine that all
should be treated alike. The candidate
for Governor promised it. There was q
colored man. a carpet t-baggeI, and a
Republican official on the ticket. We tried
earnestly and zealOusly TO elect it, and
what was the RESULT la less than two
<Lo Data
posed of the same people, declared the gov
ernment to be white, and made color line
campaign. Talk of consistency Of the
party that claims all the intelligence and
wealth of the State when for once, think
ing it for their advantage, they declare for
equal rights. and Immediately after, with
the same object, make exactly the opposite
declaration. l undertake to say there is
no intelligence in such politics. l under
East and then West, or first North and
then South, but always with office in view,
are not worthy of confidence.


/ have not strength or power to address
you further. All / can say is that if
there are any here who call themselves
Warmoth men, they will please their leader
if they will give to s. B. Packard every
vote they would have given to H. c. War
moth.


Governor Kellogg then called in Senator
Burch. who referred first to the gratifca-
tion of all in the present unity. He pre-
dicted q success to the national and State
tickets. Two years back the Republicans
of the North had become lukewarm to the
South and thought it should be left to its
fate. The consequence was majority OF
Democrats, and most OF them Southern
Democrats, had been elected, whose first
work had been to sap the foundations Of
49, Y~,o To- IN hot fhnxr
lost in the field, to attack the regulations of
all leading Republicans, but do no
good to the country. Its vaulting
ambition had o'erleaped itself, and its fan
tastic antics had made the country pause
and watch. It saw it's object was to ride
rough not only over Republicans, but lib
erty. If the Democracy have complete


success the debt of the United States, in


Cured to preserve it by putting down the
levied to repay the South for its loss OF
slaves. The Northern people will have this


stopped. II will say: "Thus far hast thou
gone, but thou shalt go no further"


He reviewed the history Of Democratic
calls for federal aid to enforce the fugitive
slave law, and claimed that if that aid was
proper then to protect slavery, it is now
proper to protect liberty. But the prospect
of success was brilliant. The lions and the
lamOs OF tno hepuoHc9n parry uau cono
amicably together. Here on the same
platform were the original leaders, War.
moth and Packard and Kellogg and many
others, and there was no such word as fail
this year.


He reviewed the candidates, saying that
Packard, of whom the Democratic commit
tee, coming here to upset the Customhouse,
had been forced to cay was an honest man,
and that the marshal's office was in ex-
4vln $nd hn
cause every Democrat in Louisiana to say
tho fhinnr rCha saul of Command afiAu