The semi-weekly Republican. (St. Francisville, La.) 1872-1872, 1872-06-14
POLITICS .OF LOUISIANA.

Oh OWce-SeeKerS, Wlen 0f1Qt 10 OO-
tain show Of decency admits the
Justice of General Amnesty, and
who, even then fsils to get up a
cheer from any decent man, when
oil parties North, South, East and
West, are looking with hope to the
approaching new birth Of the nation
of honesty and universal rights, over
q narrow minded sectional policy !;
it is refreshing as well as encourag-
ing to perceive that the intelligence
and brain of the State are develop
ing so as to grasp the issues, and
save the whole people, by uniting
upon some plan by which the State
may be secured from Capitalization
and all enjoy freedom alike.
The Democratic party, which with
the gluttony Of the carrion crow de-
YOURS all in its way, has been already
convinced there is no more meat to
eat, and with mournful cav gives
up the ghost.
The Reform party, the younger
child Of Democracy, has fillially
taken its aged parent by the hand,
and offers to lead him in the way of
political salvation.
The Liberal Republican party, the
only National party in the State,
stands ready to receive and nourish
the others at her broad, full, sympa-
thetic breast. The latter party is
essentially the party of the nation,
Of the people, for the people. Its
principles are broad as the public
domain, its platform wide enough
for all men to stand upon. 1t is not
the party Of a clique, a ring, or a
section, but Of the people, the ma
ton, the world. 1t is simply and
truthfully the party Of all men.
The war is over, the State is in
the Union /; the amendments to the
Constitution are the law of the land,
and as such are in force. The hatch
ct is buried and the bayonets Of the
war have become ploughshares. The
people of this State have shown the
nation that they are law abiding, and
that they are good citizens of the
new Union. The bitterness of the
past seven years is over and gone
forever.
Under this state of affairs, force
laws ore past by the National Con-
gress, and Louisiana treated like a
subject Territory, and that too,
through the exertions of her own
representatives, men without ability
orpopularity butpossessed ofbound-
less ambition; who to gain their ends
| would not hesitate to sink the State
to perdition.
Under the enforcement act, the
election of the State is a farce, a de-
fusion and snare. The people are
no longer any thing, the Congress is
everything. Why not let Grant gar
rison every town in times of peace,
billet his soldiers upon every home
stead, heap insult more dire than
every exposed upon the South
Let the people Of the South bear
this and more, but let us show by
our votes that such Infamous laws as
the enforcement act were Just neces-
sary to give Greeley every vote in
Louisiana.
-Four years ago Louisiana took
her place in q recemented Union, as
one of the sisterhood of the new
confederation of States, upon an
equal footing with any and all Of her
sisters. She was one of the first re-
turning States, whose voice was lib
erty. Her adornments had been
torn from her matchless person, her
wreaths of pearls had been thrown
upon the ground her sandals Of
sweet wood were torn from her feet,
and the robes which adorned her
peerless beauty were sunken at the
bottom of the Gulf. Yet she was
hopeful and her brightsmile beamed
nn0n her ey0yno0,1a sisfaro ov,vv i;1