Year: 1872

! are things do not palliate Xcuse, anC
things that would not bring the Republican
party into repute. But can say that the
| originatOrs of those schemes are the Office
holders of General Grant, and that they


are men who have brought everything thai


is bad or wrong in the way Of the recon
structiOn of our State.


After speaking further of the corruption
in the Republican party, the Governor said
thai after an investigation by a committee
there had been no report made. The com


mittee had gone back to Washington, and
the press of the country had demanded the


report, and it was not brought forward. He


said it was to this they would protest 1t
was for that they met at Cincinnati met fOI


the purpose of protesting, and they would
protest all over this broad domain, and the


facts would be told to the President and
his friends, however distasteful they might


be, and if the people of this country desire


to perpetuate his dynasty it was their busi-
ness and theiI right. He said: We have


nominated ticket, we have burned our


ships behind us, we have thrown our ban


ner to the breeze, we intend to fight ii


out on this line, if it takes the balance of


summer. CCheers And we do not intend to


be kept from saying just what we think we


ought to say, however he may pack meet


ings with custOmhOuse inspectors or the


pOstOtice department, or turn out his cliuues


to interrupt speakers Cheers. We in


tend to tell how General Grant has admin


istered government at the South. We in


tend to tell and prove whatever failure


there may be in the matter of recOnstruc-
ton in the South, arising from the fact that


the President has made between himself
and the good people of that section a gulf
into which he will not pass nor will they
pass. We intend to tell and to show to the
people of this country that tie white peo-
pie of the South are as loyal and law abid-
ing, and determined to stand by the
government in all its trials as the people
in any part of the country. [Cheers. They
insist upon it that our elections in the South
shall be free from the presence of United
States troops; that our ballot-bOxes shall
not be surrounded by the army; that
any rebel who has right to vote shall
vote as free as the blackest Republican in
our section. Cheers We have given you
a ticket at which we intend you shall laugh
at first, and then you shall grow serious,
and finally all 90 for. [Cheers, Greeley
and Brown. We have given you Horace
Greeley as a candidate for the Presidency.
Whatever you say of the people of the
South, none of you will say that old Horace
is not honest. Although you may laugh at
his white coat and white hat, you know
that under that white coat there beats
heart as kind, as pure and as simple as
child GCheers.l You know that under
that coat is heart that reaches out its
strings to every man, woman and child in
the land; you know that he never harmed
a human being, but that his whole life has
been spent in deeds for the benefit of the
human race. You know that under that
white hat is a brain that gave the Repub-
lican party its vitality and strength.
TCheers, and ''that's so."l There is not one
in this broad land that will not say he is
Republican. His religion has been read at
all your tiresides, and too many have grown
up in this country with the New York
Tribune in their hands to say anything
against it.


We have given you another mana lit
tie red-haired AissOurian-for the second
place on that ticket. Laughter and
cheers. You may laugh because he has a
smile, and you can laugh because his hair
is red; but you know there is not a man who
will deny that in that little stature moves
the spirit of a giant You know that to
him, more than any other, this State owes
its redemption. You know that 1000
voters who were disfranchised owe their
votes to him, and they will give their votes
to him in 1872. We have given you this
ticket. We have given it not to the Repub-
lican party alone, but so that every man in
this land, whatever his past political ante
cedents, may stand upon it. We intend to
take large part of the Republicans of the
North; we intend to take all the Democrats
of the North and all the Democrats of
the South, and to bring a large share of
Africa in too. TCheers.] Some of our
Northern Democratic friends may con-
tend it is a little too strong in a Repub-
ican point of view, but | tell you tonight
that, Notwithstanding the strangeness of
the position, before ninety DAYS are over
v-a Ioy-ol of fba GOrgfb vvill canI RI
Louis to tell the Democratic party to in
dOTse Greeley and Brown. [Cheers. And.
tellOw-citizens, the Southern States will
take their places in this Union. the posi-
tiOns to which they are entitled by the
right of being States in it. Their people
will be restored to the power of which they
have been deprived; their people, elevated
to office in the administration of the gov
ernment, will be cOnciGated and made
happy, loyal and prosperous, and to this
great movement we will have to attribute
the peace, prosperity and progress of the
whole country. Prolonged cheers.


Colonel Claiborne said that the delega-
ton on its return to Louisiana stopped to
rest twenty-four hours iu the city of st.
Louis. That a serenade was got up in honor
of the delegation. And so many had turned
out and hOnOred them with their presence,
he had pleasure in saying he had another rich
anu nODle Uf6dC IN store IOr Jne audience.
He had the honor to introduce, not little
Phil. Sheridan, but the eagle-like orator of
the South, General George A. Sheridan.


REMARKS OF GENERAL SHERIDAN.


General George A. Sheridan said that he
had been identified with the State of Louis
lana some seven years. He had been iden-
titled also with the Republican party, a
thorough believer in all its principles, and
a devoted adherent of its action. Abiding
to the present administration, he said that
the man who sits in the White House and
smokes had made it his special business to
disrupt and destroy the people OF the South.
He expressed it as his opinion that neither
the Democratic party nor the Republican
party alone were able to relieve the South,
and that a joining of her forces is required
He spoke with confidence of the final issue
of the Liberal movement.


Toward the close of the proceedings Cap.
tain H. c. Creveling sung rather comic
song, and Mr.. L. U. Reavis ad-
some remarks to the assembly. 1t
then dispersed.


Annual benefit of J. Kittredge tonight at
the Academy-the beautiful drama "Dearer