New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-07-22
HEADQUARTERS RFPUBLIoAN STATE UkNTRAL !
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE,
the Republicans of Louisiana:

r..eH New Orleans june H. 1865,
To the Republicans of Louisiana:
1t is known to you that your State Con-
vention, which met in this city in the month
of May, was the largest and most harmoni~
Gus ever assembled in Louisiana. In the
discharge Of its legitimate duty it appointed
a State Central Committee consisting of ten
members from the parish of Orleans, and
two from each other parish, oneh half of
whom are white, and one-half colored citi-
zens. The State Central Committee met and
elected the Hon. S. B. Packard, of Orleans,
President, and the Hon. William Vigers,
of New Orleans, Secretary. By virtue
of a resolution of the State Convention the
State Central Committee elected from its
own members an Executive Committee of
ten members, two from each congressional
district, with power to act for the Central
Committee between its sessions, and this
Executive Committee now has me honor of
addressing you.
It is our agreeable duty to congratulate
you on the suspicious result of our State
election. We have ratified constitution
which guarantees to all life and liberty and
equality before the law, and we have elect
ed State officers and members Of the Legis-
latrrc who will faithfully see the eenstitn-
ton carried into practice. We congratulate
you on the moral certainty that the civil
law will soon be enforced by loyal men
throughout Louisiana, our State be admit
ted into the Union of States, and our PEG.
pie become peaceable, prosperous, and
happy. s.
We also congratulate you on the nomina
tion by the National Republican Convention
of General o. s. Grant and Schuyler Colfax
for President and Vice-President Of The
United States. The hero who led our 81
mics to victory and the patriot who led our
statesmen in council will now lead the Re
publican party to a complete and glorious
triumph. We have the satisfaction to re-
member that your delegates participated in
their nomination, and that your State Gem
fral Committee now forms a part of the
organization Of the great Republican party,
and has its representative in the National
Republican Executive Committee.
We also congratulate you on the unity
and harmony which now prevail In the
Republican party of Louisiana. tits inevi.
table that there should be ia al parties
disappointed aspirants for office or official
position, who are dissatisfied with every.
thing which is not TO their personal cd
Hantage, and there are deserters from a
armies and ell parties. But these are 50
few in numbers here that they can do only
good % our organization BY inspiring with
renewed zeal all good and true men. We
confidently predict that ct the coming
election IN November the Republican party
VIII carry this State for Grant and Colfax,
and the whole Republican ticket, by at least
twenty-five thousand majority.
Your State Central Committee, Of which
the Hon. 8. 3. Packard Is president and the
Hon Wlham Yigers Is secretary, il per
fectly organized and ready for the fall cam.
palgn. we urge you to perfect your parish
ORGANIZATIONS and your Clubs and be ready
for the contest Hold your club meetings
IS lofsen as is CONSISTENT with your other
duties, elect true and reliable men AZ presj.
dents aud secretaries, and place your very
best men in your parish and other commit.
tees. ApoVe AZ things remember that the
great principles Of liberty, justiso. ana
equality, for which We are contending, are
Of vastly more importance than any indi- I
vionHs gain on loss, and nlitrno pafTlots viii
sacrifice their personal feelings sud interests
Wheu II Z necessary 10 "a Il dco The glorious
principles snd truthl represented by the
-, 1.spAA,.s. part. kirnllY believing "a
yS confidently expect you. our friends, and
teiieE q ~ n1 and comrades Ia this glorious
Wotk % ~ your duty, and Jour whole dHty, |
Aq 4r9a6i1ag the party fer ne coming I
niel IN. Weneed but this one IS o4o 4 laI i-
Gus political victory. and fhe LOYALTY and /
aioe riNIit8 81 she citzens Of L6eld
ana m on ; foundation N1l1h ca
never 1e shaken.
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