The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-08-03
ORGANIZATION for the Campaign.


borough organization of the party LOT /
he approaching election in November
,ext. We cannot too forcibly COM q
mend its contents to the careful peru
sal of every Conservative citizen OF {
Louisiana. A convention Of the party |
is called to meet at the city OF New i
Orleans on the 10Th day of September 1
next for the purpose of nominating can
lidates for the offices of Auditor and
and for the purpose OF an
nouncing the principles on which the
is to be conducted. WAeth-
er the delegates to the State conven-
ton from each Congressional district
shall also nominate a Congressional
candidate for that district, or whether a
separate district convention shall be
called for tho purpose, is matter for
the parishes in their primary meetings
to determine. A call for mass meet
ing of the Democracy Of Rapides at
Alexandria on the Sd day ofSeptember,
appears in another column. The call
is got up in the most liberal and Cath
ole spirit and is intended to embrace
every one who is opposed to the cor
ruptions of the Radical party which
have brought the State to the verge OF
bankruptcy. Every one who has the
interests of the State at heart is cor
daily invited and earnestly entreated
to be present, to unite his voice and
exert his influence with those who
would rescue the State from the ruin
which threatens it on all sides. We de-
sire to see a grand mass meeting OF the
conservative people, and we can con-
fidently predict in advance that wis
dom, harmony, and good feeling will
characterize their deliberations.
The crisis is a most momentous one
and the next election is the most i'm
portant that ever was held in the
whole history of the State. In former
days we passed through many an OK
citing political campaign, and enthu-
siastic stump orators predicted this and
that dire calamity would befall the
people if the opposite party should sue
coed at the election. But every re-
fleeing man knew in his heart that
) there could really be but little differ
ence between any two political parties
that were national in their principles
and national in their organization
The country need not necessarily &C
to destruction because the Wing, the
Democratic or the American party hap.
pened, for the time being, to be in the
ascendancy, however much the success
of the one party might interfere will
: the private aspirations of the ambi
tious members of the other.
But now the case is altogether differ
emit. Instead of two great nationa
parties contending together in honora
f BILE rivalry for power, we have thu
;. State governments at the South vic
! lently placed by the power of tho Fed
eral government in hands of set o
thieves, vagabonds and Adventures
whose avowed purpose is to plunde
: the people of their hard earnings to fiji
the pockets of the representatives o
party, whose whole structure is bas
ed on meanncss, hatred and malignity
The means used to place this party il
power would disgrace the most tyran
ical government on Earth. The act
of the party, when in power, woul'
,. disgrace tho meanest band of thicve
that ever Joined together to live Of
the results of other peoples labor.
: The particular reason why Louisian
g should be cursed with worse govern
}. ment than any of the other infamou
d creations of this infamous party, liza
: never been satisfactorily explained
6 Perhaps it is because her people al
e more generous and chivalrous, an
! therefore the better subjects on whic
e n malignant organization should dc
a light to operate. Perhaps it is bt
l. cause she has the reputation of bein
Is richer than her neighbors, and, there
S, fore, that there was brighter prospects,
robbery on the part of the adventure
who have gathered together on he
% soil. However this may be we are SUI
. that none of our sister States hay
T. been cursed with such rulers as ha,
81 been sent to govern us. Thieves in Il
uniform of Major-General, thiev
- in the executive chair, thieves clotht
II in the judicial ermine, thieves in fro
IL of us, thieves behind us, thieves {
-. around us-such is short epitome
IL the history of the government in Lo
- isiana from the time when our belov
s' State was handed over, bound hand al
w. foot, to the tender mercies of the Ra
y, ical party. Legislators offering thu
votes in the market place, at aucti
to tho highest bidder, swelling the dc
e' of the State to bankrupt figures, a
.. then leaving their seats to go arou
ho the country seeking to buy splent
mansions and fine plantations, at fab
~ lous prices, with their ill-gotten gal
:" such is the spectacle presented in
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