New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-08-28
4 voice from the Northwest. ]

The following, from the Bastrop (Morehouse parsh)
Advocate, of the 18th inst.s is strong and to the
point. We commend it to our readers. With in
creasne taxation and increasing debts, with special
legislation for party avorites and yrannical and in
ouitous 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 we will soon find our
selves wrecked on the rocks The roar of the breakers
is already as perceptibe as it is threatening:
THE AMERICAN CONVENTIONAL American party
of Morehouse has meeting called for SATURDAY tiie
22d inst. as will be seen by reference to notce III
another column. The object OF this conVen.lo , We
understand is to nominate candidate lor .ne iomel
branch of the State Legislature. This once y Que
of vital importance to the whole people OF the ot.e
and more especially to the tax payers OF the country
parishes. That the tenor OF Legislation tlal ns peen
adopted at Baton Rouge FLOR the iast t"o VI .IiGe
years bv the Democratic party must be changed Is
evident to every sane man that looks W lhe "eaie
and perpetuity of his country. -
The neopIe oyerburthened with taxation without
the least insight to what becomes OF their money are
growing under this heavy load throughout the length
and breadth of our State, and are beginning TO cry
aloud for relief. The foul and pollutlng innovations
that have been committed upon the organic law ana
long established usages OF our once happy otate
stamping her once lalr esCutcueou viii 40
and corrpt as the records of any Court of lnqustion
the thorough and complete prostitution to which our
Legislative halls have been subjected for the purpose
of propogating species OF partisan legislation as
base and corrupt in its character as 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 effecting thorough and complete change in the
political character of her Legislators. The voters of
Morehouse and when say voters we not mean the
members of any particular party, but those freemen
who are not bound down by party chains, and made
subservent to the dctation of some partisan leader
then we say have we part OF this important labor
to perform.
10 rely upon the Democratic party to furnish legs-
lative material that will work out this great and
muchtobe desired change, is the heighth of folly.
This you fully tried in November, 90, 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 a member Of the
Democratic party and therefore had to submit to the
dctation of the veriest of demagogues, because he
happened to be leader Of that party.
Voters of Louisiana, and especially those of More
house parish, warn you again and again to trust
no political party that is managed and controlled by
such rotten establishments as the firm of Sldell u
Co. Then let every voter of Morehouse who desires
to see a change wrought in the legislation of our
State rally at the courthouse Saturday next, and
unite in selecting man that is rorhy OF repre-
senting the varied and growing interests of parish
that is destined long to be of the first in the
State in point of wealth and intelligence.
Boy said visitor at the house of friend to his
little son. step over the way and see how old Mrs
Brownis' The boy did the Grand, and his return
reported that Mrs. Brown did not know how old she