The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1869-01-13

has issued a currency without authority O
law, and has forced it upon the people il
such amounts as to break down its valu
and destroy it as q circulating medium. |
has failed to pay the interest on its obIiga
tons, and is Mt double if not treble tn,
necessary expense, owing to its inabilit,
to meet its current obligations. The char
ter should contain definite powers, less of
bees, and attach more responsibility to the
officials.
vAGRANcY.
must call your attention to the fact
that there is NO law by which idleness O,
vagrancy can be suppressed. The object oil
the Legislature of 1865, in the adoption oil
the vagrant law, was simply to re-enslaye
the colored people. The natural indiena.
ton aroused ut it has caused an abolition
ST all such acts, and leaves the State with
out authority to repress the growing evil.
man who cats but does not work is u
bad citizen, and should be forced into hon.
est employment. The streets of the CAPT.
tai are filled with oilers, who are too law
or proud to work, and constitute fungus
on society, which needs legislative surgery.
IMMIGRATION.
Under the management Of DR.. j. O.
Noyes, chief Of this bureau, have great
hope of being able to bring to our State a
swelling tide of immigration. He is thor
oughy acquainted with the subject, speaks
tluently, in addition to his own tongue, the
French and German, and has inaugurated
measures calculated to give full information
relating to our resources, and to recon-.
mend New Orleans as port to which i'm
migrants will first come from abroad. We
have several lines of steamers direct to
foreign seapOrts, and over one thousand
immigrants have arrived here in the past
few weeks. He will ask some further leg
lslation in order to get the bureau well Or
ganlzed, and hopes to make it maintain it.
sell, as is done by the States of New York
and Maryland. His report l will lay before
you at an early day.
Fellow-citizens-N1ay VIC not hope that
the storms OF the past have died away for
ever, and that returning reason will re-
mount its throne? The issues of the past
eight years have been settled, We hope for
ever. Slavery has been swept away, and
along with it all the train of evils growing
nut OF its wickedness, and has left us
master and slave, black and white-with
the same rights under the law, the same
chance to succeed in life. and with equally
unrestricted aspirations and hopes. On an
intelligent people, armed with u FREQ press
and free speech. and supported by the bal
lot, may We not confidently rely for such
of laws and customs in socie-
~ rs the sound Judgment of tho people
may approve. Let us forget the passions
of the great past, forgive those who have
lone us evil. and offer to all the Same pro-
lection and encouragement claimed for
ourselves. In this spirit recommend the
lbrogatlOn OF the ninety-ninth article of
'ur Constitution, and believe, if an amend
nent should be submitted to the people at
he next general election, it would receive
heir almost unanimous approval. l re-,
,retted its insertion in the Constitution
avored the proposition made to abrogate
t ut the last session, and now officially re-
it.
] am hopeful of the future. Our Heav-
My Father has rewarded us with n boun- |
ifnl crop. kept sealed the pestilence with
which we have been in past times visited,
md blessed the lovers of liberty and J. s. |
ice with the greatest political triumph |
ver accorded to them in this country. In |
he wise, economical, moderate and firm |
of the government of the |
lation and the State. believe are heal
ngs of all animositics and the prosperity
nd glory Of the people.
II. c. WARMOTII,
Fa Governor of Louisiana