The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-06-29
Communications should be addressed to
THE CHIEF,
Donaldsonyille, La.
Address to
The People of Louisiana.
Call for Liberal Republican Convention.

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 a
view of uniting all of the conservative polit-
zeal clements in the State, irrespective of
party and past political differences, III order
that we may present an undlVlted front 10
ultra Radicahsni
The action of the convention could not
have been expected to reflect the public SELL
timent, or to be equal to the occasion, select
ed as its members were, four months pre-
yiOus to its meeting, and under u very diff
ferent state OF circumstances. 1t was ante
rior to the Cincinnati movement, which then
was but taintly muttering the thunders of
that storm that now RACES throughout the
entire land. Since then, d political earth
quake has occurred, disrupting parties and
creating q clasm broad aud deep between
the followers of Cincinnati and the friends
of the national administration.
Such is the national outlook to-day. To
say that in such 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 coun-
try, between honesty, liberty aud eonstitu-
tional government on the one side, and vice,
despotism and imperialism on the other,
there can and will be no such thing as lieu
tiG,lity. The people OF Louisiana will array
themselves on the one side or the other.
National and State reform are one and insep-
arabic. They can not be disconnected; it is
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, it
countcnanced by the people OF the State.
prOtraets indefinitely our present lnlserles,
insures the re-installltion of dishonesty, cor
ruption and probability in our State Legisia-
ture for the next four years, and gives the
State irrevoeably 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
individuals of party prejudice and prestige,
all past feuds and divisions, to unite in an
organization which alone can save the ma
ton from ruin, and the people from the
overthrow of their constitutional liberty.
1t is therefore ordered by the undersigned
executive committees that a convention ot
delegates, on q basis of duplicate of the
present representation i'll the House of Rep
resentatives of the General Assembly ol
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 tht
purpose OF thorough organization of all
who concur in these views, sentiments and
objects, and of nominating an electoral
State and congressional ticket, under tht
banner of national and State reform, and the
| leadership of Greeley and Brown.
DANIEL W. ADAMS,
Chairman Independent Greeley and Brown
Executive Committee.
f. NORTH CUI.LOM,
Acting Chairman Liberal Republican Exec
utive Committee.
j. HASSINGER,
Chairman German Committee.
New Orleans, La, june 10, 1871.