The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-08-10
Address TO
The People of Louisiana,
Gall 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
view of uniting all of the conservative polit-
icaf elements III the State, irrespective of
party and past political differences in order
that we may present an undivided front TO
ultra X adiealism.
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-
vious to its meeting, and under very diff
terent state OF circumstances. 1t was ante
rior to the Cincinnati movement, which then
was but family muttering the thnnders of
that storm that now RACES throughout the
entire land. Since then, o political earth
quake has occurred, disrupting parties and
creating a ehasm broa.i and 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 viii be no such thing az neu-
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themselves on the one side or the other.
National and State reform are one and insep-
arabic They can not be disconnected; it 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, il
eountenanced by the people of the State.
protTaets indefinitely our present miseries,
insures the reinstalation of dishonesty, cor
ruption and prodigality IN our State Legisla-
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 ali
organization which alone can save the ma
ton from ruin, and the people FROM tbs
overthrow of their constitutional libety-
1t is therefore ordered by the unde rsigned
executive committees that convention of
delegates, ON basis of q 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 mt the city of New Orleans on
the first Monday of August next, for Che
purpose of IL 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
y ID. p. PENN.
Chairman Independent Greeley and Brown
Executive Committee.
+. NORTH CELL.OM,
Acting Chairman Liberal Republican Exec
utive Committee.
j. HASSINGER, 81
Chairman German Committee.
New Orleans, La, june 10, 1871.