The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1868-01-18

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uses to the best advantagtth the powers OF
body and mind with which his Creator
has endowed him. Any claim not foun-
, ded on thisis tal.e and pernicious When
the people Of any nation cease to give TO
labor its true dignity and affect to drs-
pise the laborer, their own dishonor is
assured, and the doom of national pros
perity is pronounced.-Erie Dispatch.
The Democratic the only living
Con ~eryatiye par.y.
IT has been sometime evident that
there is to.be fusion of all the elements
of opposition to the radically destructive
party in congressional power, and that
This fusion will be known rs the Demo-
cratic party, the old Democratic party
forming the greater portion of its body,
and the constitutional principles of that
party its armor of offence and defence.
To this party have gathered adherents
of the Government of the United States
as founded by Washington, Jefferson,
Adams, Madison, Hamilton. Marshall
and their compeers. Al who believe the
constitution TO be at all times and under
| all circumstances the supreme law of the
land, and thu United States to BIZ States,
possessing sovereign powers, united for
the common defence and common veal,
have now united themselves, whether
they were Wing or Democratic under
now obsolete party issues and conflicts,
under the Democratic banner.
So thorough has been this fusion that
in the old Federal State of Massachu-
sets there ran this year, as the Demo-
cratic candidate for Governor, the great
grandson ofJohn Adams. and the grand
son of John Quincy Adms, whose name
he bore, and who had never been called
by the Democratic name; and Robert
G. Winthrop is now II of the acknow-
lodged leaders in Massachusetts Of the
Democratic party; while in New York
a man no less exalted in rank and re-
vereuce with the old Wing party than
| Willard Fillmore, one President of the
United States, gives in his name and
adhesion to a party which he had op-
posed throughout his life, but which he
now finds the only one capable of max
ing Roadway against the powers of de-
structioD. s '$ '" +
To this party alone does conserva-
t.sm at the North look for relief from
the danger now impending to the chariot
of State, which madness is rushing over
the precipice, and which if it falls must
first crush us. To this party and to the
conservatives of all classes in and of it,
must we alone look for cur deliverancp,
if deliverance there be-. Under these
circumstances, therefore, it, would be
madness for US to form party associa-
tons under any other name brother ban
ner than that of the National Democrat
tic party. Any other name wonld seem
to doubt the good faith or willingness of
that party to come to our relief. We
want their sympathy and their aid. We
need repose under the shadow OF their
great name when the flames of persecu-
ton and oppression mount high around
us. }S rt@@fHs |s
It is well, therefore, that at meetings
held this week in this city, attended by
a large number of II most influential
citizens, it has been resolved to reor-
ganize the Democratic party of Lou
isiana, and to call ward, city and parish
primary meetings and conventions to
effect a complete and thorough ~organiza-
tion through State convention, to meet
thereafter, and that in the meantime the
following citizens will act as a State
Central Committee Of the Democratic
party Of Louisiana. @
We would here remark that the meet
ing which first met to consider these SUBJ
jects was, presided over by Juge Alex.
ander Walk er, and that the committee
appointed by it to nominate members of
the State Central COMMITTEES presented
it's report to d meeting over which Geo.
P. O. Hebert presided, and that a large
number of our old leading Wings Me
members ofthis Executive or State Gen.
trail Committee. .
This committee is composed Of the fol-
gentlemen: Ea
Geo. A Fosdick. j. O. Fuqua, Geo.
Williamson, Duncan S. Gage, Duncan
f. Kenner, u. p. Kernachan, 9J.I
AID. Rozier, j. L. Austin. j. A. Snyder,
Louis Bush, W.. NJ. Smallwood. Saml-
Anderson. L. Irwin, Geo. 8. Darling,
Richard Taylor. Peter Kaiser, Al. Sam
bola. j. Hernandez, David Stuart, P.O.l
Hebert, a.. w. Bosworth, Chas. L. Fen
ner, John McEnery, Francis Martin, B.
Il. Jonas. @. III. Slocomb, VIM. nj. Levy.
w. Ill. Well, Edward Fenner, Hardy
Richardson, T. s. Goode, David Wal
lace, John Ii. New, Thomas Asksw, G..
Dufour, S. r. Walker, VIM. III. Burwell,
+. Haifieigh, A. B. Bacon, N. IRE
pagnier, Marion A. Baker, J. d. Mann,
j. o. Nixon. G. DE Ferret, Durant Da
r.. j. Barrow, Alexander Wal
ken, Mike Carroll. Louis Texada, q. W..
Culbertson, James b. Eustis, In. Marks.
+. Solomon, IT,. Ellis. John Holmes,
John Meyer, Thomas Murray, Sam.
j. @. A. F'ellowes. w. s. Pike,
w. M. Dane, L. Lemarie, M. b. Brady.
n, Q. Tracy, Chas. j. Leeds, s. Tyler
Reed. j. N. Lapyere. Thomas Il. Adams.
oami. Seymour. Il. L. Gibson, A. b.
IA. Sfnrcken, LEI. III. Fayrot, G.
Kilbourn, James McClcskey, j. j
The committee was authorised to add
as many more to their number as they
deem advisable.
The COMMITTEES is to nleet in Parlor r.
ST. Charles Hotel. on tuesday evening,
It Z o'clock.-N o. Pieayune.