Year: 1873

This gentleman, who represents the par


ishes of st. Charles, st. John, Jefferson,


and portion of the city of New Orleans


in the upper branch of the Legislature of


our State, returned yesterday from very


pleasant trip to Iowa, passing through sew


eral of our Southern and Western States.


The Senator expresses himself delighted


with the treatment he received. particularly


after he changed cars in Kentucky, and


travelled into the old free States of the


Union. He experienced nothing unpleasant


in the conduct of the people of Kentucky


and Missouri. On the contrary he was


treated with much civility in these States,


and as he passed into States lying further


west the hand of friendship was extended


to him when the people learned


that he was from Louisiana; and


he was made to feel that he


was among those who did not make color


the only bar to the equal civil and political


rights of men. But, as his particular mis-
sion was to visit Iowa, and become &C


quaintsd with some of the citizens of that


tourishing young State, it was there that


he experienced in the fullest sense the prac.


tical recognition of those laws OF Congress


which are intended to bring the colored


man up, according1to the standard of his


merit, to the enjoyment Of every right


secured by law to the white man. Senator


Stamps visit to DesmOines, the capita


of Iowa, was far more satisfactory than,


as he expresses it, he had reason to


expect. When he arrived there he was


total stranger in the place. He was


in doubt whether to go to hotel or


pot-but finally concluded that he would


and he went to the best one in the capital,


which proved to be Abon House. He asked


for room and was rather surprised to be


shown to one without the least hesitation.
After he had made his toilet, the dinner
hour having arrived, he was at loss to
know whether he would be served with
dinner, and was on the point of mastering
up courage enough to ring the bell and


summon servant for the purpose of ascer-
tanning whether meals could be furnished
him in his room, when lady made her ap-
pearance and asked him it he desired to


take dinner. Upon being answered
in the affirmative by the Senator,
he was politely, to his utter aston
ishment invited down to the dining


room, large and elegant one, where he
found very large number of fashionably


dressed ladies and gentlemen already


seated and being waited on by clean and
neatly attired walters. The tables were
crowded, some three or four hundred per-
sons being present, and the Senator began
to think he would have to wait, when the


lady again stepped forward and conducted
him to a seat that had been reserved for


him. Here, among the polished of both
sexes, the Senator took his first dinner in
the capital of Iowa, but not. as he assured
| u.s. without some embarrassment. After
dinner, when it was ascertained that he was
from Louisiana, large number of citizens
called on him, anxious to hear
from him, representative man CT


his race, the condition of affairs in Louisi.
ana. Unlike Mr.. McEnery and the gentle


men who represent the opposition, Senator
Stamps assured the people of Iowa that
Louisiana is in a more tlourishing condition


at this time than at any previous period
since the war. He told them that much OF
the political bitterness that was first ex-


hiNted toward Governor Kellogg is dying


out since tho people have been convinced


that he is earnestly laboring for their vel
fare, and that he desires to have peace in


order that the material interests of the
State may no longer suffer from the po-
litical broils that have SO long been a


blight to it's prosperity. Senator Stamps
frankly told the people of Iowa that Gov
ernor Kellogg was the best Governor
| Louisiana had ever had; that he had col
| lected more revenue than any Governor
since the war, and was endeavoring to pay
| off at least the interest on the public debt.
| The Senator further told them that if Con
| gress will let Louisiana alone, the people
will make things right in a short time. All
| Governor Kellogg wanted now was the re-
| peal of certain obnoxious laws passed
during Governor Warmoth's administra-
| ton, and the enactment of others to suit
| the wants of the people at this time. The
Senator thought that if Democratic mem
| bers of the Legislature will take their seats
| next January and help do this work, they
| will be playing far nobler part than IN
| assisting Mr.. McEnery to toment new pollti-
| cal troubles He assured the people OF Iowa


that the professional politicians in Louis
lana now rated at heavy discount; that the


people are beginning to have far more
| respect for the man who has an honest


calling than the idler; and that the dignity
| and usefulness of labor is being SO well


and favorably considered that it will soon


be counted disgrace to be found without


any other employment than that of poll
tician Senator Stamps also described to
| the people of Iowa the beauties OF our


genial climate and the advantages OF our


rich and productive lands when brought
| into cultivation by the hand of industry
| He said that all Louisiana wanted was popu-
Iatiou-men to till the soil and women to
4 make farm life happy as well as
| profitable. He wanted to see the State
covered with small farms. This would
make it the garden spot of the Mississippi
| valley. He not only wanted to see working
| immigrants pouring into the State. but he
wanted to see the sons and daughters OF
| Louisiana learning to work that they may
! also be of profit tos themselves and the