HYECHA MARSHALL, WIFE OF AND LOYAL L. MARSHALL VERSUS JAZZ CASINO COMPANY, LLC, JCC HOLDING COMPANY II LLC, AND HARRAH'S ENTERTAINMENT, ALSO D/B/A “HARRAH'S CASINO”, #8 CANAL STREET, NEW ORLEANS LOUISIANA AND “HARRAH'S HOTEL”, 628 POYDRAS STREET, NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA AND UNIDENTIFIED EMPLOYEE(S), AND THE XXX INSURANCE COMPANY(S)

U.S. Grant was stumped: “The muddle down there is almost beyond my fathoming,” the president told the New York Herald in the summer of 1871. What had him flummoxed was the recently adjourned “Gatling Gun Convention” in New Orleans, a Republican state nominating gathering that reads like a passage from a novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The run-up was punctuated by open combat in the trenches and foxholes of countless ward clubs and party conventions—the so-called “War of the Factions.” When the sitting Republican governor, the colorful and roguish Henry Clay Warmoth, hobbled by a boating accident earlier in the summer, led delegates supporting his candidacy to the designated meeting place inside the U.S. Customhouse on Canal Street, federal soldiers manning the latest in automatic weaponry turned him and his followers away when they tried to barge into a rival group's caucus. Warmoth thereupon guided his followers to another meeting hall. For the next 18 months, warring Republican factions moved in and out of opportunistic alliances with Conservative-Democrats. They divided into rival legislatures, used force to achieve quorums, and arrested and impeached their own senior leaders. If some of the more scurrilous allegations are to be believed, they even poisoned their lieutenant-governor. Were Louisiana politics on the verge of becoming “Mexicanized”—plunged into chronic crisis and political tumult? That was the question beginning to trouble Republican observers north of the Ohio River.

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Creole Sketches

10.32873/unl.dc.zea.1312 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Lafcadio Hearn

Keyword(s):

New Orleans ◽

English Language ◽

Cultural Influences ◽

The Other ◽

The Political ◽

South American ◽

Canal Street ◽

White Supremacists ◽

Free African Americans ◽

The City

New Orleans in 1878 was the most exotic and cosmopolitan city in North America. An international port, with more than 200,000 inhabitants, it was open to French, Spanish, Mexican, South American, and West Indian cultural influences, and home to a thriving population descended from free African Americans. It was also a battleground in the fight against yellow fever (malaria) and in the political upheavals that followed the end of Reconstruction. The continued influx of Anglo-Americans and the renewed ascendancy of white supremacists threatened to overwhelm the local blend of languages, races, and cultures that enlivened the unique Creole character of the city. Writing for an English-language newspaper, Lafcadio Hearn presented the speech, charm, and humor of the Creolized natives on the other side of Canal Street, and illustrated his sketches with woodcut cartoons — the first of their kind in any Southern paper. These vignettes, published in the New Orleans Daily Item during 1878-1880, capture a traditionalist urban world and its colorful characters with a delicate and sympathetic understanding.

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Tuesday Evening

PMLA ◽

10.1017/s0030812900130524 ◽

1935 ◽

Vol 50 (4) ◽

pp. 1357-1357

Keyword(s):

Life Insurance ◽

Insurance Company ◽

Life Insurance Company ◽

Local Committee ◽

Tuesday Evening

On Tuesday evening the members of the Association, and attending members of their families, were entertained with a buffet supper at the Queen City Club at 7:30 p.m. at the invitation of Messrs. Joseph S. Graydon, John J. Rowe, and other Cincinnati friends of the Association. Following this supper an entertainment arranged by the Local Committee was presented in the Hall of the Western and Southern Life Insurance Company. Attendance: about 900.

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