New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-07-02
POLITICAL NOTICES,

Parish of RaBides-Address to the PeODIe
of the state OF LOuisiana.-The two conventions
recently assembled in this city having failed to
meet the equirements the emergency demanded,
we the undersigned committees, have determined
to appeal to the people of Louisiana with view of
uniting all of the conservative political elements
in the State irrespective OF party and past political
differences IN order that we may present an undi-
vided front to ultra radcalism.
The action of the convention could not have
been expected to reflect the public sentiment or
TO be equal to the occasion selected, members
were, four months previous to its meeting, and
under very different state Of circumstances. 1t
was anterior to the Cincinnati movement which
then was but family muttering the thunder of
that storm that now RACES throughout the entire
land. Since then political earthquake has Oe.
cured, disruptIng parties and creating chasm,
broad and deep, between the followers of Cihon-
natl and the friends of the national administration
Such Is the national outlook to-day. To say
that in such a conflict Louisianians shall be idle
spectators is insult to their understanding and
patriotism. In the great contest which now RACES
over the whole country between honesty, liberty
aud constitutional government on the one side,
and vice, desp0tism and imperialism on the other,
there can and will be no such thing as neutrality.
The people of Louisiana will array themselves on
the side or the other. National and State re-
form one and inseparable. They cannot be dis
eennectedi it is folly and political suicide to seek
When the Democratic and Reform committees
undertook to repudiate the proposed fusion of all
the elements of national and State reform in one
general convention, to nominate State, electoral
aud Congressional tickets. they perpetTated an
act which, if ccuntenaneed bv the people of the
State prOtracts indefinitely our present miseries
insures the rehabilitation OF dishonesty, corrup-
ton and prOdigality in our State Legislature for
the next four years, and gives the State irrevO
cably to Grant.
It Is against this action Of the conventions that
we protests and we appeal to the people to rally,
and, discarding all Considerations of individuals
Of party prejudice and prestige all past feuds and
divisions, to unite in an organization which alone
save the nation from ruin, and the people from
the overthrow of their constitutional liberty
1t is therefore ordered by the undersigned exec
utive committees that convention of delegates,
on the basis of duplicate Of the present repre-
sentatiOn in the House of Representatives of the
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 Monday Of August next, for the pur-
pose of thorough organization of all who concur
in these views, sentiments aud objects, and of
nominating an electoral, State and eOngres sOnal
ticket under the banner of nati0a al and state re-
form, aud the leadership of Greeley and Brown.
New Orleans, Louisiana. June 10, 1872.
DANIEL W. ADAMS,
Chairman Independent greeley and Brown EXecu.
tive Committee.
E. NORTH CULLOM,
Acting Chairman Liberal Republican Executive
Committee
J. HASSINGER,
Chairman German Committee.