New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-09-01
A Voice from the Northwest.

The following, from the Bastrop (Morehouse parsh)
Advocate, of the 10th inst, is strong and to the
point. We commend it to our readers. With ill.,
creasing taxation and increasing debts, with special
legislation for party favortes and yrannical and mi
ouous legislation to accomplish party Objects it is
time the great body of the people should arouse
themselves and ascertain whittier they are drifting
We have been drifting sadly to the leeward during
the last four or five years. We must set the ship of
State on another tack, or else will soon find our
selves wrecked on the rocks The of the breakers
is already as perceptible as it is threatening:
THE AMERICAN CoNvENTIoN.-The American party
of Morehouse has meeting called for Saturday the
2dinst., will be seen by reference to notice IN
another column The object of this convention we
understand is to nominate candidate for the lower
branch of the State Legislature. This Office is one
of vital importance to the whole people OF the State,
and especially to the tax payers of the country
parishes That the tenor of legislation that has been
adopted at Baton Rouge for the last two or three
years by the Democratic party must be changed, is
evident to every sane man that looks to the welfare
and perpetuity of his country.
The people overburthened with taxation without
the least insight to what becomes of their money are
growing under this heavy load throughout the length
aud breadth of State, and are beginning to cry
aloud for relief. The foul and polluting innovations
that have been committed upon the organic law and
long established usages of our once happy State !;
and corrupt the records of any Court Of qustion
the thorough and complete prostitution to which our
Legislative halls have been subjected for the purpose
of propogatng a species of partisan legislation as
base and corrupt in its character any that ever
emanated from the halls of Pandemonium ITSELF all
unite in their appeals to the voters of Louisiana to
deem in November next the fair fame of their State
by efecting thorough and complete change in the
political character Of her Legislators The voters of
MorehOuse (and when say voters we mean the
members of any particular party, but those reemen
who not bound down by party chains, and made
subservient to the dictaton of some partisan eader
then we say have we part of this important labor
! to perform.
TO rely upon the Democratic party to furnish egis-
ative material that will work out this great and
much-tobedesired change, is the heighth of folly.
This you fully tried in November, 56, and although
he whom you elected was gentleman in the noblest
sense of the word, and for whose abilities we have the
| highest appreciation yet he was member OF the
Democratic party and therefore had to submit to the
dictation of the veriest of demagogues because he
happened to be a leader of that party.
Voters of Louisiana, and especially those of More
house parish, we warn you again and again to trus
no political party that is managed and controlled by
such rotten establishments as the firm of Slidell
Co. Then let every voter of Morehouse who desire
to see change wrought in the legislation of on
State rally at the courthouse on Saturday next, ant
unite in selecting some that is ,Coythy of repre-
senting the varied and growing interests of parisl
that is destined ere long to be of the first in tn
State in point of wealth and intelligence.