The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-07-20
Address to


The two conventions recently assembled
in this city having failed to meet the REQUIRE,
ments the emergency demanded, We the
undersigned committees, have determined
to appeal to the people of Louisiana with n
view of uniting all of the conservative nolit.
ical elements in the State, irrespective Of
party and past political differences, in order
that we may present an undivided front 10
ultra Radiealism. par
The action of the convention could not
have been expected to reflect the public sen.
timent, or to be equal to the occasion, select.
ed as its members were, four months pre-
yious to its meetings and under a VERY DIFF
ferent state of circumstances. 1t was anfa
rior to the Cincinnati movement, which then
was but family niuttering the thunders Of
that storm that now RACES throughout the
entire land. Since then, o political earth
quake has occurred, disfupting parties and
creating a elasm broad and deep between
! the followers of Cincinnati and the friends
OF the national administration.
Such is the national outlook TODAY. Ta
say that in such a conflict Louisianians shall
be idle spectators is an insult to their under
standing and patriotism. In the great con
test which now RACES over the whole conn
try, between honesty, liberty aud constit,i
tionai government on the one side, and vice
despotisin and imperialism on the ether
there can aud will be no such thing as men.
themselves ON the one side or the other
National and State reform are one and iIisep
arabic. They can not be disconnected il Il
folly and political suicide to seek to separate
them
When the Democratic and Reform commit
tees undertook to repudiate the proposed
fusion of all the elements of national and
State reform, IN one general convention. to
nominate State, electoral and congressional
tickets, they perpetrated an act which, If
eenntenaneed by the people of the State
protraets indefinitely our present miscries
insures the re-iifstaliation OF dishonesty, cor
ruption and prodigality in our State Legisla-
tnre for the next four years, and gives tho
State irresocably to Grant,
1t is against this action of the conventions
that we protest, and we appeal to the people
to rally. and, discarding all considerations OF
indivituals. OF party prejudice and prestige
all past felids and divisions, to unite In nu
organization which alone can save the ma
ton from ruin,i and the people from the
overthrow of their constitutional liberty.
1t is therefore ordered by the undersigned
executive committees that convention of
delegates, ON a basis of u duplicate Of the
present representation in the House of Rep
resentatiyes of the General Assembly of
Louisiana, shall be elected by the different
parishes and districts of the city of New Or
leans, to meet at the city of New Orleans on
the first Monday of August next, for the
purpose of a thorough organization of all
who concur in these Views, sentiments and
objects, and of nominating an electoral.
State and congressional ticket, under the
banner of national and State reform, and the
leadership of Greeley and Brown.
ID. P. PENN.
Chairman Independent Greeley and Brown
Executive Committed. 1Sa isf
Z. NORTH GULL1M,
Acting Chairman Liberal Republican Exec
utiye Committee.
j. PASSENGER. ss@
Chairman German COMMITTEES. islilf.st d.
81 New Orleans, Lss., June 10, ISL az