Year: 1870

poment to the fact that his positions and ar


guments can not be overturned or confuted


by any style Of oratOry, aud they are as m.


cOntrOvertible as if cOuched in style OF


didactic gravity.


And now the Congressional nominee,


General Sypher, was loudly called for. He
appeared on the stand, and was greeted with


a storm Of welcome.


General Sypher commenced BY remark
| ing on the present administration elected


by the people of the United States in the
interest Of human rights. This administra-


tion had been stigmatized by the Demo-


cratic party as tyrannical to the South
Yet it was owing to the principles on which
| the present administration is based, that


over three millions Of men had been freed
| from the chains Of sOul-benumbing slavery,


and endowed with all the rights Of freemen.
| Was this tyranny! Is human liberty a


monopoly! Does it mean that one race


alone shall enjoy it, to the exclusion of all


others! No! 1t means that the freedom


and franchises of one American citizen be-
longs to every man who can claim by birth
or naturalization the privileges of American
citizenship.


General Sypher next spoke of the AFRO
| CANT claims of the Democratic party. Upon
what are those claims founded! That party
ruled this broad country for thirty years,
| holding in its grasp the administration Of
the general government, and twO-thirds of
| the State governments. During all this
| time it had endeavored to make the Declar-
| alton of Independence, that all men are born
free and equal, practical nullity, and then
had attempted to Overturn the government
| and break the country to pieces. And now
| it claimed, as a reward for this maladmin.
| istration and this treason, that the govern
| ment it had attempted to subvert should
again be intrusted to its hands. Entrust
| the administration of the national affairs
and the shaping Of the national policy to
Just passed through a long and
bloody war, out of which we
emerged with public debt, that will bur-
| den our industry for years to come. A
| party, too, containing in its ranks all the
elements of the late rebellion; party
whose sympathizers throughout the South
are the men whose utmost efforts for four
years were directed to the ruin of the cOun-
| try, by breaking it into fragments,
After the rebellion had succumbed and
| resistance to the authority Of the nation
had ceased in the field, the ballot was sub
| stituted for the bayonet, and step by step
! the Democratic party fought against the re-
| construction measures passed by the United
| States Congress, and with a sullen obsti-
| macy, showing the same feeling of sectional
hostility that had prompted the war.
And now when they have experienced the
| futility of all previous modes Of resistance
to the principles Of human liberty. embodied
in the platform of the Republican party,
they change their tactics, and endeavor to
overcome the party to whom the cOlOred
| man is indebted for all he possesses, and do
this by means of the cOlOred man himself.
For they have thrown away the cardinal
principle for which with ballot and bullet
they have fought so many years, the principle
that the colOred man has no rights that the
white man need respect. They have laid
this aside. at least. for the present, and pro-
fess themselves willing to accord to the col
sesses by the constitution of the country
and the law of the land. for which he need
not thank the Democratic party.
They offer, what To receive the colored
voter into their ranks, so that, as he is
voter in spite of them, he may hereafter
vote, according to their dictation, in favor
Of his enemies and against his friends.


What can the Democrats do for the col
ored man that the Republican party has not
done for him already. What can the Demo-
Gratis give him that he does not already
pOssess-pOssessing it, too, by 'he untiring
and fearless efforts of the Republican party,
the party of the nation, the party that he is
now asked to forsake.


And what will be the consequence to the
cOlOred man should he suffer himself to be
charmed by the Democratic charmer! He
would be used until, by his vote, the Demo-
cratic party once more gained power and
the control of the government, and then
that power would be used as scOurge to
put the cOlored voter back to where he was
before the reconstruction acts of Congress
had been passed.


True, he could not be deprived of liberty
nor could he easily be deprived Of the
right of suffrage or the rights secured to
him by the fifteenth amendment. But, un-
der Democratic rule, under the domination
Of the party which until lately has set
forth colored subjugation as the one thing
needful, all the rights of the cOlOred man
would be of little practical use to him. He
would be secure OF nothing.


1t is well worth the while of the colored
man to pause ere he commits himself. and
the welfare of his family and OF his race to
the tender mercies of party which has
hitherto almost begrudged him his share of
Gods air and Gods sunshine and who,
even if they keep good faith, can give him
no more than he has already.


General Sypher then exhOrted all colored
men to stand by the party that had freed
them, had befriended them, that had be-
slowed on them the rights and franchises
of citizenship and made them men among
men.


The address was concluded by an able
appeal to the Democratic element present;
particularly to those who had suffered sec
tional feeling to impel them toward party
to whose antecedents they had always been
opposed. These were exhOrted to come out
from among those who would be their po-
litical task-masters, and vindicate their pa
triotism by adhering to the party OF pro-
gress, the party Of Southern development
and future prosperity.


1t was very evident that the address of
General Sypher made a deep impression
among the unbelievers present, and COM
pleted what the speeches Of Sheridan and
others had paved the way for.


The following resolutions were then Of
fered and unanimously adopted:


Resalred, BY the Republicans of the
parish of st. Tammany, in mass meeting
assembled:


l. That we cordially indorse the present
Republican administration of the United
States government, under Ulysses S. Grant,
the peoples choice as|chief magistrate OF the
nation; and we indorse and approve the
course OF j. +. Casey, collector OF the port
of New Orleans, who has, in all his official
acts, proved the sOundness OF his Republi-
can principles.


2. That we indorse the administration of
his Excellency, Governor IL. c. War
moth, and of the honest and able State Otii-
GERS associated with him.


3. That we ratify and indorse the nomi-
nations of Hon. James Graham and Hon.
Antoine Dubuclet for State Auditor and
State Treasurer and that the nomination
of General j. H. Sypher as candidate for
Congress from the First Congressional Dis
trict, merits our hearty appreciation and
will meet our undivided support.


T. That the thanks of this meeting be
rendered to Captain w. L. Cozzens for his
courteous treatment Of our friends from
New Orleans. who have come To siren gthen