The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-08-03
Address 10
The People OF Louisiana
Gail for Liberal Republican Convention

The two conventions recently assembled
in this city having failed to meet the require
meuts the emergency demanded, We, Inc
undersigned committees, have determined
to appeal to the people OF Louisiana with
view of uniting all of the coHsefv ative pOlit-
zeal clements in the State, irrespective of
party and past Palitieal diiiareneess in order
that we may present an undivided front to
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The action of the convention could not
have been expected to reflect the public sen
timent, or to DO equal to the OCCASION select
ed as its members were, four months pre-
vious to its meeting, and under q very diff
ferent state of circumstances 1T was ante
rior to the Cincinnati movement, which then
was but family muttering the thandefs OF
that storm that now RACES throughout tho
entire land., Since then, a political earth
creating chasm broad and deep between
| the followers of Cipcinnatig and the friends
| of the national administration.
| Such is the national outlook to-day. To
/ say that in such Il conflict Louisianians shall
! be idle spectators is an insult to their under
| standing and patriotism. In the great con
| fest which now RACES over the whole eOun-
| try, between honesty, liberty aud eonstltu-
4 tional government on the one side, and vice,
| despotism and Imperialism on the other,
/ there can and viii be no such thing as neu
trality The people of Louisiana will array
/
! National and State reform are one and insep
arable They can not be disconnected it is
/ folly and political suicide to seek to separate
/ them. -@.t
/ When the Democratic and Reform commit
i tees undertook to repudiate the proposed
/ fusion of all the elements of national and
/ State reform, in one general convention, to
i nominate State, electoral and congressional
tickets, they perpetrated an act which, il
i eountenanced by the people of the State,
protracts indefinitely our present nnseries.
/ insures the re-instaliation of dishonesty, cor
raption and prodigality in our State Legisla-
/ ture for the next four years, and gives the
| State irreyoeably to Grant,
/ 1t is against this action of the conventions
| that we protest, and we appeal to the pe0pl,
4 to rally and, disearding all considerations OF
4 individuals, of party preiudieeana prestige.
4 all past feuds and divisions, to unite IN an
/ Organization W hieh 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 OF
delegates, ON basis of N duplicate of the
present representation in the Heuse of Rep
j resentatiyes of the General Assembly Of
l 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 o 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 80.
i ala s. $500 ID. p. PENN. ss.t
Chairman Independent Greeley and Brown
| Executive Committee. Hassf Etfssl@
/ AaEe Il. NORTH CULIOM, laF
Acting Chairman Liberal Republican Exec
utiYe Committee.
j. HASSINGER, s#
/ Chairman German Committee. 81 lsstE ii
- New Orleans. La, June 10, 1871. eIi