The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1866-08-22
a Proclamation.

down the walls ana Notifications with rams
horns, no one has sought to emulate the
enterprise until Wells the immaculate,
Wells the Radical, got ready his lungs and
Illuminated his last proclamation. His
song is pretty one, but long since the
people have closed their ears to his emana-
tions. Because the people despise him,
because his transactions whilst occupying
the position that he has disgraced have
shamed the State, because he has been
caught in the act Of trying to convey us
bound hand and footto the g NEST enemy
that ever conspired against people, be-
cause all this he forsooth has turned his
back upon ussand in proclamation which
| does not contain truth sufficient to make it
worthy of a freedmans attention be has
made his bow to respectable society aud
cast his fortunes with the radicals of the
North and the inchoate negro element Of
the South. He certainly deserves credit
for impudence when he draws line be-
tween himself and the people in whose con-
! fdence he long since lost his feeble foot
/ hold.
The entire body polite ofLouisiana hav-
ing engaged in the late war he turns des-
pamiRgly from us because that we will not
turn upon one another and say, "stand
thou back because of thy infamy." He
complains that in our elections we select
soldiers to fill our Offices and says that he
would have been defeated if Allen had
been within the State aud had given his
consent to the movement, this is one
grain of truth in an ocean Of falsehood.)
He claims that the Convention move
ment was fair and just and that the filling
of the vacancies would have nearly equally
divided the representatives into the one
part chosen during the war and the other
elected now. This is of course for North
era use and enlightenment for the shallow
vacancy trick was well understood here.
| The Convention was to meet on tho 30th
of July and in one week, quorum or no
quorum pass the constitutional amend
ment, disfranchise the masses Of our peo-
pie, enfranchise the blacks, plumber the
treasury and adjourn. On the Sd of Sep
TENDER the shallow pates who were suppos-
ed to be ready to bite were to meet and fill
the vacancies, elect members who would
never have chance OF attending any con-
vention for the purposes of these radicals
would have been subserved and there would
be no more use for re-assemblage Of the
august body. He opposes the President
and throws himself into the bosom of the
Radical party.
It wanted no PROCLAMATION for the
people to kown where he stands. The
great body Of corruption, the Radicals
party possesses sufficient power of at
trsction to draw to itself all the rotten
particles floating around loose through
out the South and he is now with
4 Brownlow, Hamilton and other kindred
buzzards on the wing watching with keen
eyes for garbage whereupon to fatten
/ He comes out openly for negro suf-
fage, he who onoe owned these chattels
by the hundred and bought and sold
their legal bodies in the same manner
as he would now delight to buy and sell
us, the whites of Louisiana, giving moth.
ing for us but his worthless bond and
selling us at the highest market price
We are done with such creatures al
E you James Madison Wells. As in.
suited and robbed Rapides disowned
aud spit opon you, SO does the State
now defy you and dares the worst thai
your traitorous spirit con conceive
against her interests and her life.
Nature gives with the burden
strength, and we have no idea that thii
man will sink under the weight Of thu
load Of accumulated shame that is OF
his head. Published annually by
Rapides as her defaulting sheriff and
his name fostering black spot upor
the roll of the Governors of Louisiana
| he may live long in the land but not al
long as she memory Of his fraud, cor
ruption and shameless career will exis
in the memory of our people.
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