New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-06-26

HEADQUARTERS REPUBLICAN STATE CENTRAL }
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE,
New Orleans, June II, 1868. }

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE,
New Orleans June II, 1868. }
To the Republicans OF Louisiana;
II 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, onehalf of
whom are white, and one-hslf 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 the honor Of
addressing you.
1t is our agreeable duty to congratulate
you on the suspicious result of our State
election. We have ratified constitution
WHICH guarantees W Ill LII anu AlbFAl1 anu
equality before the law, and we have elect.
ed State officers and members of the Legisa
lature who will faithfully see the constitu-
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.
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 in
their nomination, and that your State Cen
trail Committee now forms part Of the
organization Of the great Republican party,
and has its representative in the Nationa
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 adj
vantage, and there are deserters from all
armies and all parties. But these are 81
few in numbers here that they can do only
good to our organization by inspiring with
renewed zeal all good ana true men. We
confidently predict that st 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-five thousand majority,
Your State Central Committee, Of which
the Hon. s. B, Packard Is president, and the
Hon. william Yigers Is secretary, Is per-
fectly organized and ready for the fall cam,
paign. We urge you 20 perfect your parish
organizations and your clubs, and be ready
for tho contest Hold Your club meetings
as often as Is Consistent with your other
duties. elect true and reliable men as presi.
dents and secretaries, and place your very
best men In your parish and other commit
bce4s Abvtc III huluAa AchAcul D9t tnAt NC
great principles Of liberty, justice, and
equality, for which we are contcnding, are
Of vastly more Importance than any indi-
yidual gain or loss, and alltrue patriots viii
saeridte theif personal feelings and interests
when it Is necessary 70 advance The glorious
principles and truths represented b. the
Republican party. Firmly believing In
your patriotism, zeal, and discrimination,
we Confidently expect you, our friends, and
fellow citizens and comrades In this glorious
work 70 do your duty, and Jour whole duty,
Ia Organizing the party for the coming
election. We need but this one more glOri.
Gus political victory, and the LOYALTY and
liberty and fights 81 the cItzens Of Lou1si.
ana win rest On loundEiion which can
As Ionu, Nationally, 80
lNN s O. .. DUNN "a,
Chairman State Executive Committee.
n. UNDERWOOD, Secretary.