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St Johns (Florida, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
ut this rule in force? We have no rule against chewing; yet chewing is a nastier vice than smoking. Rules are useless. Negroes will chew and smoke. Why not let them smoke in other rooms? You think that easy. Sir, it is so far from being easy that it is actually impossible. How so? Because we cannot spare a man from his seat. You see we have only just a quorum present. If a single member quits his place we are unable to proceed. A Negro, named Demas, member for St. John's parish, rises, and in a voice to silence Spurgeon or Punshon, rates the House. There is a certain eloquence in His words. Yes, says Speaker Hahn, there is something in these fellows. Nearly all of them were born slaves. A dozen years ago hardly one of them dared to open his mouth in presence of a White man. The Hon. Michael Hahn affects not to know how many members of his parliament are Black, how many White. We take no note of colour, he remarks; but while Massa Demas is thumping and
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 10
to let them bring it in; and tell the leaders plainly that they have no legal powers. If President Grant decides to support General Sheridan, do you think the new Legislature may be got to work? I hope the best; but I am sickening of my tasks. I shall be happy when the moment comes for my release. Release! Does any one hinder you from leaving New Orleans? A sense of duty hinders me. I am a party man. Believing that the principles of my party are the best for every corner of America, I have done my best to plant them in this region of the South. My work is not yet done; but I am older than I was ten years ago. I have deserved my rest, but shrink from taking it so long as any chance remains of finishing what I came into this State to do. His tone is grave and almost sad. What is my life in New Orleans that I should wish to stay? To be regarded as an alien or denounced as an adventurer is nothing. I am shunned by everyone except the wretch who seeks a place.
Louisiana (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
ers true. Do you consider this assembly a lawful House, Mr. Speaker? Yes, a lawful House, the Second Chamber of Louisiana. Only fifty-two members are present. Fifty-six answer to their names. 0, Michael Hahn! On passing to theher they shall or shall not read the Senators in Washington a lesson by sending Pinchback up again as State Senator for Louisiana? This pale and dissipated Negro is the Hon. Caesar C. Antoine, Lieutenant-governor of the State, sitting in the chair a huge spittoon, he informs us that he never seed sich a thing as dat affair with Wiltz; also that the culled people in Louisiana don't mind General Grant having a third term, if he like, or even a sixth term if he like. Caesar in New Orleans sailsy prate about Governor Kellogg's election not being valid. What right have those fellows to review a State election in Louisiana? Pinch shall go back. Pinch is their choice. Pinch shall sit in their name under the marble dome, among the chief sa
Michael Hahn (search for this): chapter 10
f we will pay a visit to the Legislature and Executive, Speaker Hahn and Governor Kellogg will be happy to receive us at theown! The uproar beats the tumult of a country fair. Michael Hahn, the gentleman who presides, seats us near his chair an There is a certain eloquence in His words. Yes, says Speaker Hahn, there is something in these fellows. Nearly all of thed to open his mouth in presence of a White man. The Hon. Michael Hahn affects not to know how many members of his parliamre present. Fifty-six answer to their names. 0, Michael Hahn! On passing to the Upper House, we find a tall, pale Have you fifty-four Members? No; fifty-three. Speaker Hahn has allowed three candidates not returned by the Board been done, they are unlawful and without my sanction. Michael Hahn is no more Speaker than I am President. My Chamber is a caucus and no more; but Hahn is fond of titles, and the coloured members like to hear themselves called a Legislature. W
Spurgeon (search for this): chapter 10
chewing; yet chewing is a nastier vice than smoking. Rules are useless. Negroes will chew and smoke. Why not let them smoke in other rooms? You think that easy. Sir, it is so far from being easy that it is actually impossible. How so? Because we cannot spare a man from his seat. You see we have only just a quorum present. If a single member quits his place we are unable to proceed. A Negro, named Demas, member for St. John's parish, rises, and in a voice to silence Spurgeon or Punshon, rates the House. There is a certain eloquence in His words. Yes, says Speaker Hahn, there is something in these fellows. Nearly all of them were born slaves. A dozen years ago hardly one of them dared to open his mouth in presence of a White man. The Hon. Michael Hahn affects not to know how many members of his parliament are Black, how many White. We take no note of colour, he remarks; but while Massa Demas is thumping and roaring, we count the heads, and find them twe
William Pitt Kellogg (search for this): chapter 10
Chapter 10: carpet-baggers. William P. Kellogg's private secretary comes to the hotel to say that if we will pay a visit to the Legislature and Executive, Speaker Hahn and Governor Kellogg will be happy to receive us at the State House. In company of our consul, as before, we start for Royal Street, the entrance in St. Louis Street being still closed. After some parley with Negro soldiers and police we pass the door. A rush of foul air, the reek of bad cigars and worse liquors, drives us back. Phew! The hall is nearly dark, and gas is burning in one corner. Windows and doors are planked, and the floors strewn with corks, broken glass, stale crusts, and rotting bones. A crowd of loafers and officials throngs the hall, most of them Negroes, all of them smoking, jabbering, pushing. Here, a cotton picker wants to go upstairs and see dat legislating show. There, a carpet-bagger explains to a coloured voter why the Negro has not yet received his forty acres and a good mu
House (search for this): chapter 10
ht Blacks. Twenty-four and twenty-eight make fifty-two; four members short of a legal quorum! Yet the Speaker has just assured us that the House we see is a full House. Counting again we find our numbers true. Do you consider this assembly a lawful House, Mr. Speaker? Yes, a lawful House, the Second Chamber of Louisiana.House, Mr. Speaker? Yes, a lawful House, the Second Chamber of Louisiana. Only fifty-two members are present. Fifty-six answer to their names. 0, Michael Hahn! On passing to the Upper House, we find a tall, pale Negro, with a small head and dissipated face, presiding over fifteen Black and thirteen White senators, who are debating whether they shall or shall not read the Senators in WashiHouse, the Second Chamber of Louisiana. Only fifty-two members are present. Fifty-six answer to their names. 0, Michael Hahn! On passing to the Upper House, we find a tall, pale Negro, with a small head and dissipated face, presiding over fifteen Black and thirteen White senators, who are debating whether they shall or shall not read the Senators in Washington a lesson by sending Pinchback up again as State Senator for Louisiana? This pale and dissipated Negro is the Hon. Caesar C. Antoine, Lieutenant-governor of the State, sitting in the chair by virtue of his office. No Conservative senators are present. Caesar C. Antoine is an African of pure blood, though he is not so dar
William P. Kellogg (search for this): chapter 10
it to the Legislature and Executive, Speaker Hahn and Governor Kellogg will be happy to receive us at the State House. In cry into a gentleman's private life? They prate about Governor Kellogg's election not being valid. What right have those fef sages of the commonwealth! On going with Antoine into Kellogg's cabinet we encounter Pinch. The Negro is in high feathes bows and scrapes. You think of giving him twenty cents. Kellogg appears to loathe the fellow, yet he cannot well refuse hihero vanishes from our sight. It is a farce, says Governor Kellogg. Pinchback is no more senator now than he was before.aches Washington they will find out their mistake. Governor Kellogg is courteous, grave, and self-possessed. It is a coms. A friend who met me in Canal Street said: Going to see Kellogg? Let me warn you that the man you are going to see is a wps in New Orleans could not make him tell the truth. Governor Kellogg has a smooth and winning way, which enemies may descr
Philip Sheridan (search for this): chapter 10
ing them three dollars a day, they cannot stay in New Orleans. In less than a week thirty out of the fifty would be gone. I let them meet, attend to formal matters, and receive their salaries, but I caution them to leave all serious business till we see our way. There is a fight between us. The Chambers are burning to pass an Appropriation Bill; but I refuse to let them bring it in; and tell the leaders plainly that they have no legal powers. If President Grant decides to support General Sheridan, do you think the new Legislature may be got to work? I hope the best; but I am sickening of my tasks. I shall be happy when the moment comes for my release. Release! Does any one hinder you from leaving New Orleans? A sense of duty hinders me. I am a party man. Believing that the principles of my party are the best for every corner of America, I have done my best to plant them in this region of the South. My work is not yet done; but I am older than I was ten years ago. I
White (search for this): chapter 10
sence of a White man. The Hon. Michael Hahn affects not to know how many members of his parliament are Black, how many White. We take no note of colour, he remarks; but while Massa Demas is thumping and roaring, we count the heads, and find theUpper House, we find a tall, pale Negro, with a small head and dissipated face, presiding over fifteen Black and thirteen White senators, who are debating whether they shall or shall not read the Senators in Washington a lesson by sending Pinchback tors agree that the White fellows in Washington are impertinent in rejecting Pinch. He is the martyr of his skin. Those White fellows talk about his character. What right have they to pry into a gentleman's private life? They prate about Governo have an honest Government, and should be rather glad than otherwise to have a Conservative majority in the Lower House. White people are easier to satisfy than Black. Why let the Chamber meet, transact business, and print journals, as though t
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