If you will take up the riot at New
Orleans and trace it back to the Radical Congress, you will find that
the riot at New Orleans was substantially planned. If you will take up
the proceedings in their caucuses, you will understand that they there
knew that a convention was to be called which was extinct by its power
having expired; that it was said that the intention was that a new
government was to be organized, and on the organization of that
government the intention was to enfranchise one portion of the
population, called the colored population, who had just been
emancipated, and at the same time disfranchise white men. When you
design to talk about New Orleans, you ought to understand what you are
talking about. When you read the speeches that were made and take up
the facts on the Friday and Saturday before that convention sat, you
will there find that speeches were made, incendiary in their character,
exciting that portion of the population--the black population--to arm
themselves and prepare for the shedding of blood.
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