The semi-weekly Republican. (St. Francisville, La.) 1872-1872, 1872-06-18
ADDRESS
To the People of the State of
Louisiana.

sembled in this city, having failed to
meet the requirements the emergel'-
cy demanded, we, the undersigned
committees, have determined to ap-
peal to the people of Louisiana, witt,
n view of uniting all of the Conser-
vative political element in the State,
irrespective of party and past politi-
cal differences, in order that we may
present an undivided front to ultra
Radicalism.
The action of the Democratic Con-
vention could not have been expect
ed to reflect the public sentiment, or
to be equal to the occasion, selected
as its members were, four monthss
previous to its meeting, and under d
very different state of circumstances.
It was anterior to the Cincinnati
movement, which, then was but faint
ly muttering the tl1rnders of that
storm that now 'rages through-
out the entire land. Since then, IL
political earthquake has occurred,
disrupting parties and creating q
chas,n broad and deep between the
followers of Cincinnati and the
friends Of the National administra-
ton.
Such is the National outlook to-
day. To say that in such. q conflict
Louisianians shall be idle spectators
is an insult to their understanding
and patriotism. In the great colt
test which now RACES over the whole
country, between honesty, liberty
and constitutional government on
the one side, and vice, despotism and
imperialism on the other, there can
and will be no such thing as
neutrality. The people Of Louisiana
will array themselves on the one side
or the other. National and State
reform are one and inseparable.-
They cannot be disconnected it is
folly and political suicide to seek
to separate them.
When the Democratic and Re-
form committees undertook to rep,1-
diate the proposed fusion of all the
elements of National and State re-
form, in one general convention, to
nominate State, Electoral and Con-
gressional tickets, they perpetratel
an act which, if countenanced by
the people of the State, protracts in
definitely our present miseries, en-
sures the reinstallation OF dishonesty.
corruption and prodigality in our
STATE Legislature for the next four
years, and gives the State irrevoca-
bly, to Grant.
It is against this action of tho
Conventions that we protest and
we appeal to the people to rally, and,
discarding all considerations oi i'll
diyiduals, of party prejudice and
prestige, all past feuds and divis-
ions, to unite in an organization,
which alone can save the nation from
ruin and the people from the OVER
throw of their Constitutional liberty.
1t is therefore ordered by the un-
dersigned Executive Committees that
Il Convention of Delegates, on ba-
sis of duplicate of the present re-
presentation in the House of Repre-
se1tatives Of tie General Assembly
of Louisiana, shall be elected by the
different parishes and districts of
the city of New Orleans, to meet at
the city of New Orleans on the first
Mon lay Of August next, for the pur-
pose of thorough organization Of
all who concur in these views, senti-
{ ments and objects, and Of nomina-
ting an Electoral, State and Con-
gressional ticket, under the banner
, Of National and State Reform, and
the leadership of Greeley and Brown.
N. 0. La, June 10, 1872.
} DANIEL w. ADAMS,
Chairman Independent Greeley and
Brown Executive Committee.
Z. NORTH CULLoM,
Acting Chairman Liberal Republican
Executive Committee.
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