The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-07-13
COME ONE! COME ALI!
A Large Attendance is Desired.
Address TO
The People of Louisiana.
Call for Liberal Republican Convention

The two conventions recently assembled
4 in this city having failed to meet the require
lnents 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 elements in the State, irrespective OF
party and past political differences, in order
| that we may present an undivided front to
ultra Radicalism.
The action of the convention could not
have been expected to reflect the public sen
ttment, or to be equal to the OCCASION select
| cd as its members were, four months pre-
yious to its meeting, and under Il very diff
! ferent state of circumstances. 1t was ante
riof TO the Cincinnati movement, which then
was but f;tintly muttering the thunders OF
| that storm that now RACES throughout the
entire land. Since then, u political Garth
quake has occurred, tlisrupting parties and
creating u chasm broad and deep between
the followers Of Cincinnati and the friends
of the national administration
Such is the national outlook today. To
say that i'll such a conflict LOuisianians shall
he 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 constitu-
| t1onal government on the one side and vice.
despotlsm and Imperialism on the other.
| there can and will be no such thing AS men
tlality. The people of Louisiana will array
| themselves OH 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, i'll one general convention, to
nominate State, electoral and eongress SIGNAL
tie fbayr -
countenanced by the people of the State.
profracts indefinitely our present niseries.
ENSURES the re-installation of dishonesty. cor
ruptlon and prOdigality i'll our State Lenisla-
ture for the next four years, and gives the
State irIevocably to Grant,
1t Is against this action of the conventions
that we protest, and we appeal to the people
10 rally, and, discarding all considerations of
individuals, of party prejudice and prestige,
ali past feuds and divisions, to uuite in an
organization which alone can save the ma
uon from ruin, and the people from the
overthrow of their constitutional liberty.
1t Is therefore ordered by the undersigned
executive committees that q convention of
delegates, on basis of duplicate of the
present representation in the House of Rem
resentatives Of the General Assembly of
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 a thorough organization of all
who concur in these views, Sentiments and
objects, and of nominating an electoral.
State aud congressional ticket, under the
banner OF national and State reform, and the
leadership of Greeley and Brown.
ID. Z. PENN.
Chairman Independent Greeley and Brown
Executive Committee.
L. NORTH CULLOM.
Aching Chairman Liberal Republican Exec
utNe Committee
j. HASSINGER,
Chairman German Committee.
New 0rssans, La, june 10, 1871,