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Show DfiCO. TEX TEI 1HKK1MS, The No lit hern IS lacks Arc Agreeing to IHsuuree Very Sluch. New Orleans, 19. At a cnlortd convention, to-day, speeches were made on immigration. Herbert was for immediate immigration, saying trmt colored men could got no justice here. Xbe congressmen now in congress con-gress had their credentials written in . the blood of negroes, and the judiciary I was in the internst of the wont element ele-ment of the democratic narlv. A resolution endorsing immediate immigration im-migration W43 piss-id unanimously. A committee was appointed to attend a mass meeting iu Mobile. Dive Young want' d a committee of seven discreet men to go to Viek'3burg and there discuss the question of immigration immi-gration between wnite citizens and colored laborers. This brought on an angry diicussion, and Young was characterized as a bloated capitalist. Piucbback finally told the members they bad entirely lost conception of tho object of the convention the in-terei in-terei of colored men. He bad been in Madison parieh and found the negroes sacrificed their stock and implements to get money to go to Kansas. If they wanted to go they should go and stay, and not come back. But our duty now is to eeek a remedy for the exi-unc rvils. A resolution reso-lution to send 100 b.iildozsr nrgrnee to Washingim to appeal tor aid wag not etitrrtained. Alter a somewhat stormy dic-mion, the cssve ltion adjourned ad-journed till Monday. |