The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-08-03

reason, or whether they all or singly
accomplished the result. We will exer-
else a greater degree of charity than
they, and not claim, all the virtue and
purity of motive and patriotism, and
disavow and ignore the two first
counts and confine ourselves solely to
! the objection to Warmoth. These
gentlemen have impliedly confessed
{ that either they are weak or that
| Warmoth is very strong, otherwise
why fear contact with him T? Is it be-
cause, as they allege, Warmoth is cor
rupt and would sully the honor of the
party? Can it be that the great De-
mocracy, SO boastful and impregnable
in its purity, fears contamination and
pollution from the mere proximity of
evfl9 If SO, God help it; its virtue
must be of a sickly growth, and not
like that of C9sar's wife, above sus-
picion. But was it their hope, whilst
denying him all fellowship with the
saints and daInning him with all the
oaths in the vocabulary, to leave him
no other resort than to immediate HIM
self upon the altars of their erection ,
1t this be SO, it presupposes in War
moth greater degree of patriotism
than they themselves were willing to
exhibit. But should the prejudice
be it founded in fact or fancy against
one individual be allowed to initiate
against the general goodf Is this pol
itic or statesmanlike? Warmoth is
but one man; the Liberal party is a
great and growing party, and numbers
in it's ranks men sans peur ct sans
reprOche, who are no more under the
influence of Warmoth than these OBJ
iectiollists themselves. If the State of
Louisiana is worth saving, say that it
is a folly. akin to the madness that
precedes destruction to fritter away
the strength that might be made avail
able for her redemption in idle crilni-
nations and recriminations. Who shall
say when such an opportunity for her
redemption will present itself again?
Who shall say that there will ever be
a division again in the Radical ranks7
When again will you have o Republi-
can Governor willing to unite and
act with yOuq The fates have thrown
in the way of your salvation a comlIi-
nation of circumstances that may new
er again occur. Let pride of opinion,
let prejndice, let a determination to
rule or ruin govern this people, and
Louisiana is lost; lost to your chill
dren's children; lost beyond hope of
redemption for this is no ordinary
election, but upon the result hinges
our well being for all coming time.
But these gentlemen may tell you
they have adopted the national Liber-
al movement. | tell you they have
not, in the true spirit; that they grasp
the shadow, not the substance of Lib
eralism, and palter in a double sense,
"and keep the word of promise to the
ear and break it to the hope.n
But they claim That there are 900
Democrats. and that with these we
can carry the election without. any
coalition. What is the authority for
this statementf | presume it will be
scarcely questioned that the voting
white population of the State is now
less than it was before the war. In
the Fall of 1860 we had an exciting
Presidential election, which brought
ont the entire vote, and it was just
50,5lO. The whites have never since
cast as many votes as in 1860. In 1868,
at the Seymour election, We cast 43, 189
votes. with IL parishes thrown out.
You all know the favorable circum-
stances that then developed large
vote, one party not appearing at the
polls. And in 1870 we voted Al ,l70
votes. If, then, we have never under
any circumstances, before or after the
war, voted over so, $40 votes, how can
it be claimed that we have 10000
Votes . Mr.. Jonas, the Democratic
candidate for Lieutenant Governor,
says that he is informed the last Z. S.
census makes the whites and blacks
equal in numbers. But how does it
happen that the whites never under
the most favorable circumstances have
ever voted any thing near equally I
The negro vote has never been less
than DC, 600, and has gone up to 75, 600.
These figures are not estimates, but
facts and ascertained results. Ii we
unite every white vote, there will
still be considerable negro majority.
But have we under our control the.
white votes? 1t may safely be said
that the Custom House controls 1000
white votes throughout the State.
The Reformers claim largely, but the
best adyices give them not 500 relia-
BILE votes. Warmoth and his follow
ers, including the host of Office hold
ers and his personal friends, number
1000. The Germans number 5000
votes, and the Liberal party, exclud-
ing these, number over 10000 who
have already declared for it. We
have thus 10000 white votes that
there is every reason to believe will
not act with the Democratic party in
voting for its present State ticket. In
this estimate we have given the Lib
erals only 10000, but we all know that
the rank and file of the party is going
over to them by thousands and | truly
believe that at the present speaking
f0ur-f -fifths of the whites out of New
Orleans have determined to reTu-