The Carrollton sun. (City of Carrollton, Parish of Jefferson, La.) 185?-1???, 1860-10-31
THE DOUGLAS AND JOHNSON
Mass Meeting.


numercusly attended than any political
gathering ever before witnessed within its
borders and it is an undenable evidence
that the masses are moving in the right
cause-that the great body of the people
begin to appreciate fully the importance
of sustaining with their votes the only
national democratic ticket now before the
country-that of Stephen 4. Douglas
and Herschet y. Johnson, against whose
patriotism, integrity, or honesty of pur-
pose no charge, with the semblance of
truth, can bebrought
On the assemblage of the immense
multitude of the citizens of our parish in
front of the speakers stand, Mr.. r. l..
Maxwell, of the sDouglas and Johnson
Club" of this city, rose and extended to
them the welcome of the Club, and of our
city, as the supporters of Douglas and as
true democrats, in spirited and appro-
pirate address.
Upon which Mr.. s. Pursell, the Presi-
dent of the Douglas and Johnson Club
of Carrollton" rose, and named to the asa
sembly the following vice-presidents and
secretaries for the occasion -
vIcE-PREsIDENTs.
Jefferson City-H d. Baldwin, w. II. zimmer4
man. +. w. Fullmer, T. McGnnis, G. II. Vinten,
Francis Duffy, 3 s;, G.. ogIesby D. w., w.
John Hepting, Richard Burk, James Vaughan
Peter Aymar.
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Judge j. b. McLin, George E. Pitcher, Pierre
Dufau.
Coast-Robert L. Preston. Nicholas Betz r. H.
Ca,voliton-J Miller, H. H. Gogreve Stephen
kerner, George Herrle, A. s. Ferth, w. p. Duncan,
SECRETARIES.
II. J. Leche and w. l.. Randall, of Jefferson City;
Henry Faber, of Gretna c. L. Pitcher and Il.
Mcguire, of New Orleans; James Brookes and
Arthur Wire, of Carrollton; Charles f. Roger, of
the Coast.
After naming the vice-presidents and
secretaries, MIR. Pursell introduced the
Hon. GUsTAvE LEROY, of Gretna, as
the President of the organization, who
took the chair. After few remarks from
Mr.. Leroy, the
Hon. PIERRE SoULE being loudly called
for, appeared upon the stand and delivered
one of the most mild, powerful and con-
vincing matter-of- fact addresses, ever list
ened to by political gathering.
I'VE are sorry we cannot give his own
words.
Mr.. SoULE laid before his hearers in
plain terms the grounds upon which the
seceders at Charleston had acted the base
and corruptmotives of many of the leaders
of the party framed through the aid and
support of men who have heretofore de-
nounced the avowed object of the fore
most demon of them all-Yancey, of
Alabama he proved to the entire salts
of conspiracy against this government
for months before the convention met at
Charleston, and introduced documentary
evidence from the lips of John G.. Breck-
inrdge himself, the man now selected as
the great standard bearer of the avowed
disunionist party of the south he ex-
planned away the illusion now attempted
to be palmed upon the people of this coun-
try, in the shape of protection to Slavery
in the territories by Congress; he sue
cessfully and satisfactorily explained to
the audience that mine-tenthS of the inha-
bitants of all the southern States neither
felt nor had any interest in the issue of
that question in Congress, so long as the
Constitution OF. our common country was
held sacred and that the issue had been
raised by the corrupt, base and unprinci-
pied politicians who are at the head and
are the principal managers of the dis
unionist party, or rather it may be termed
the Yancey- Brock inridge nomination: for
it will not now be asserted that there was
any one of the whole number of boilers
(Yancey excepted) who would have had
audacity enough at that time, to have
dared openly to avow their ultimate object
to be the disruption of these prosperous
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