New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-07-23
HEADQUARTERS REPUBLICAN STATE CENTRAL
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE,
New Orleans, June IL, 1853.
10 the Republicans of Louisiana:

New Orleans, June IL, 1859
10 the Republicans of Louisiana;
1t Is known to you that your State Con-
vention, which met in this city in the month
If May, was the largest and most harmoni-
Gus ever assembled in Louisiana. In the
discharge of its legitimate duty it appointed
State Central Committee consisting of ten
members from the parish of Orleans, and
two from each other parish, one.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
ola 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 the 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.
lature who will faithfully see the constitu-
ton carried into practice. We congratulate
you on the moral certainty that tine 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.
We also congratulate you on the nomina
ton by the National Republican Convention
Of General U. s. Grant and Schuyler Colfax
for President and Vice-President of the
United States. The hero who led our ar
mics TO victory and the patriot who led our
statesmen IN council will now lead the Re
publican party to complete and glorious
triumph. We have the satisfaction to re.
member that your delegates participated il
their nomination, and that your State Cen
trail 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. 1t is inevi.
table that there should be in all parties
disappointed aspirants for Office or official
position. who are dissatisfied with every.
thing which Is not to their personal ad-
vantage, and there are deserters from al
armies aud all parties. But these are SO
few in numbers here that they can do only
good to our organization by inspiring with
renewed zeal all good and true men. We
confidently predict that at the coming
election in November the Republican party
Win carry this State for Grant and Colfax,
and the whole Republican ticket, by at least
twenty i've thousand majority.
Your State Central Committee, of which
the Hon. s. B. Packard is president, and the
Hon. William Vigers Is secretary, Is per
fectly organized and ready for the fall cam
paign. We urge you to perfect your parish
Organizations and your clubs, and be ready
Tor the contest Hold YOU. club meetings
IS often as is consistent With your other
duties. elect true and reliable men IS presi.
Gents aud secretaries, and place your very
best men ia your parish and other commit
tees. Above an things remember that the
great principies of liberty, justice, and
equality, FOR which we are contendtng, are
Of vastly mpre Importance than any indi.
Slousl gain % si'is, sad AZ true patriots VIII
secrine fh8ir Bels ~ ~ feelings and interests
when { - aelss u adYauce the glorious
pFinetlifs f.s rep eaented by the
Republican raiy believing IL
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