The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-04-04


The Marksville Vi1ager (Avoyelles psrish) says
Against the Coustitutlon-ths is our motto.
and the rallying cry Of the citizens OF Lonisiaaa
for the 18th and 18th Of April next"
The press Of Louisiana g nearly unanimous
against the Constitution. From the last Baton
Rouge Advocate We take the following nervous
and sensible article:
should the new Constitution be carried, Lousi-
ana will have ceased to be fitting place for any
white man to reside. We may struggle on, labor
ing under the burden of taxation which viii be
piled upon us-bearing up under the weight OF
insults which we will not be allowed to resent,
but. sooner or later, the plains Of Nebraska, the
slopes Of California, or the wiids Of Honduras
will be our only recourse from the wrath OF our
oppressors. Are you prepared to abandon your
homes and your country, to sell your little pos
sessions for song, and with helpless wives and
children leave the land Of your affections to seek
home among strangers, The picture Is not
overdr1wn. Day after day old men and young
men are leaving friends. homes and country to
find peace In other lands, and should this string
Of courageous articles pass and become the supreme
law, the stream will grow into torrent aud the
country will be wrecked. There are many who
cannot get away. Thousands are tied. like Ma
zeppa TO the Wild horse-whither the state goes
they must be dragged. To these We say work.
and work with will, against this measure OF
oppression Whilst the State lives Congress may
do its worst--we can struggle on with hope In the
future. Defeated on the 18th and 18th. the patient
dies and the days Of miracles are past-tnere Is no
power to fully restore us. Then to work TO regis
ter voters to work to influence with timely coun-
sci every voter within the scope Of your influence
to vote against the Constitution on the 18th and
18TH Make one more rslly-it is, indeed, Tor
home. our country and our rights that We are
called upon to STRIFE once more"
We have cheering news from every portion OF
the State. East Louisana will register and vote
straight TO the point, and there Is no doubt but
that her clump of parishes will give majority
against the Constitution. From North Louisiana
given sgainst IL in the parishes north Of aud bor-
dering on Red River. New Orleans will give
majority the same way despite the disputes about
nominations etc. In middle Louisiana, our peo-
pie are awakening to the danger that threatens
them, but in the most of the central parishes the
white vote is too small to carry them. The coast
parishes will poll the heaviest vote for the Con-
stitution, and in them our friends should work as
they have never worked before. Strain every
nerve and II you fail, let discontinue greet men
who worked unwearied to the last. There Is
little doubt but that the State can be rred-will
be carried against the Constitution, aud the coas,
parishes must be aroused to do th cir share Of the
work.-(Baton Rouge Advocate.
The Bastrop (Morehouse parish) Dispatch
says We do not know Of nor have we heard Of
one white man in the parish who is going to cast
his ballot for the ratification of the radical Con-
stitution.
Since our last we have conversed with several
reliable citizens, who informed Us that the pros
pect Of good crop on the hills, thus far, Is fat
tering. Generally speaking the stand Of corn is
good; Planters are busily engaged In bedding
Mansfield CDs Soto PARISH Times. zsth.
II will be glorious day for Louisiana when her
people, God bless them. vote down the proposed
Constitution. Rooster Banner.