New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-07-26
ADDREssTO THE PEOPLE OF LOUIS
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HsADagARrsRs IIssRA1 PAarr OF LorlslAsA


The Cincinnati convention, recognizing
! the necessity of uniting all the elements Of
| opposition to Grant, nominated as their
! standard bearers Horace Greeley for Presi-
| dent and B. Gratz Brown for Vice Presi-
| dent, and presented for the consideration
! of the people a declaration of principles.
! The Baltimore convention. eOncurring in the
| causes and reasons which gave birth to
! that great popular movement, Endorsed
| their nominations and accepted the plat
! form on which their candidates stood. 1t
has thus set an example to the country
| which every consideration of political
| safety and expediency requires should be
| initiated within the States.
If the Democratic party has maintained
| its national organization, it is only that the
alliance with Liberalism may be rendered
| stronger or more effective. The delegates
wac met at Baltimore for the purpose of
| cementing that alliance could not have an
| tiCipated that fractions of their party, in
the several States, would set themselves in
opposition to the Liberal Reform move
ment by using their organizations for the
| purpose of perpetuating divisions through
the nomination and support Of separate
electoral and State tickets. They knew
that without union on these points the ac-
ceDtance of Greeley and Brown would be
only a mockery, delusion and a snare.
L In other States, as IN Illinois and Indiana,
the plain course dictated by common sense
and common honesty has been followed,
and a close union with the Liberals has
been effected. In one JOINT State ticket
has been nominated, and in the other the
formation of the electoral ticket has been
RENTED to the whole body of Liberals. In
every State, except Louisiana, friendly rela-
tons have been established between the
Liberals and the Democracy, and efforts
have been made in good faith to unite the
Liberal and the Democratic vote for State
as well as for national purposes. In LOuisi-
ana alone different course has been pur-
sued. In Louisiana alone the Liberal
party-that party which first rallied to
the support of the Cincinnati movement,
which anticipated the decision of the
national Democracy, and which gave
re istless impulse to the Greeley and Brown
ticket-has been treated by the Democratic
organization with COntumely and scOrD,
and made the object of bitter invective and
denunciatiOn. And vet, in Louisiana, per-
haps more than in any other State, "a thor
Ough union of the Liberal and Democratic
vote is necessary to success, So evident is
this fact that on the adjournment Of the
Opera House Democratic Convention, thou
sands of Democrats in New Orleans and
throughout the State abandoned the Demo
cratic organization and joined the Liberal
party. These accessiOns are counted by
tens of thousands They are so numerous
that we can assert as an indisputable fact
that, in at least half of the parishes, the
Democratic organization is without fol-
lower, and in the greater portion of the rests
the Liberal party commands large ma
iOrity Of what was once the Democratic
vote.
In the whole State there are but six jour
nails supporting the Democratic or united
State ticket, and of the ffty-six parishes
not half a dozen are represented in the
nnmOPPatip C,Ommittnp n SNIFF Of
these conspicuous facts, the Democratic or
ganizatiOn, thus reduced to a minimum of
voting power persists in keeping up a show
of separate and Independent organization,
and the Democratic committee, thus emas-
culated OF representative character, has
nominated and presented a State and cleo
tOral ticket. No rational man believes that
they expect to elect either one or the other,
and hence the public can come to no other
conclusion than that they are running their
State ticket in the interest of the Baton
Rouge candidates, and their electoral ticket
for the purpose of defeating Greeley and
Brown, the nominees Of their own National
Convention. We distinctly charge this upon
them, because we have no right to assume
that they are so blind as not to see the facts
of the situation, or so silly as not TO fOresee
the necessary effects of their own acts
It is proper for the whole country, as
well as for the people Of this State, to know
ludI the lDtulDCLdllt LuLID OISdIiLdtlDuy !
while pretending to accept the decision of
the Baltimore convention, is in reality hos |
tile to the national Liberal candidates. and |
that while it presents an electoral ticket in !
the name Of Greeley and Brown, it is try |
ing to give the vote of the State to Grant.
Whether this course is the fultilment of
the contract entered into last winter be |
tween the Gus tOmhOuse party and the |
Democratic committees whether it IS the |
result of more recent and more secret bar |
gains, having for their object the control Of |
local offices and patronage, or whether it is !
dictated by an unreasOuing Obstinacy which |
prefers total ruin to success obtained by |
concession and Cancellation, the public will |
decide according to the probabilities Of the !
case.
Whatever may be tie decision, the Lib |
eral party feels that, if unfortunately the |
State should be lost, they Will at least not |
be held responsible at the bar OF public /
opinion. But they are convinced that the /
good sense of the people will avert the ca
lamitOus consequences which might other
wise result from the bad faith or the |
irrational prejudices of the Democratic |
leaders. They do not believe that the peO-
pie will permit the State to be sacrificed at !
the dictatiOn of men who have shown them
selves utterly incompetent to understand |
the necessities of the times, and incapable
of achieving anything but defeat
The Liberal party appeals to all citizens
who are opposed to Grants administrations
to all who are sincerely III favor OF Greeley
and Brown; to all who wish to defeat the
of the corrupt and wicked
faction represented by the Baton Rouge
ticket. Their convention, to be held on the
nth of August will represent a vast ma
jOrity of the Liberal and Democratic voters
of the State and their ticket viii be sup
ported by an array of numerical force,
backed by an amount of moral influence,
which will reduce the Democratic bolt to
and, perhaps, inappreciable
propoI tons. The people understand that
in this election the State must 90 either
for the Liberal or for the CustOmhOuse
party. The success Of the one insures our
vote for Greeley and Brown, and will give
us that practical reform in State affairs
which we so much need. The success of
the other, with Mr.. Kellogg as Governor,
and a reversi0n of the executive office to
the notorious G.. G. Antoine, will entail on
us peTpetuatiOn of corrupt and venal leg
islation and all the horrors ola government
vicious and the degraded. For any useful
ton is pOweriess. It repels rather than at
tracts popular sympathy. 1t appeals only
to a name which has become an empty
and resentments of bitter past; to preiu-
Gices and passions which are the legacy Of
an era Of strife and blood; to issues which
have been settled, and TO controversies
which are closed.
The Liberal party turns from the past to
the future; it seeks to heal the wounds
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