The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-07-22

| ganizations? Can they do it?
say that the ticket put forward al
ready commands Il large majority of
: the conservative clement i'll the State.
They tell you about detection. There
is some in Claiborne and Morchouse
parishes, but these opponents don't en-
body Il party. AS the campaign wakes
hot they will not throw their votes
away on the weakest organization in
the field. Why in the name of COM
mon sense will they divide and disu-
mite the conservation and reform Gle
ment? l don't believe they will.
| We are about to enter probably the
most exciting and important campaign
that has over occurred in the history of
| the country. The entire people are
aroused at the treatment of the South,
and with us it is a question Of actual
salvation. L ask if we are prepared
to pursue an ignis fatus in this great
contest with our opponents divided?
The co1ored people are not going to
follow them as blindly as they did in
1865. l tell you after two weeks adj
vertisement in North Louisiana,. they
only succeeded in bringing six or seven
hundred to the Grant ratification IN Get
ing. Let us not divide; let us not
abandon the cause. TO whoever comes
to our support, we will extend the hand
of fellowship. l thank you, gentle
men, for your attention.
MI. II. N. Ogden, candidate of At
| torney General on the United State
ticket, was introduced as the next
| speaker. "..
MIR. Ogslcn's Speech.
My fellow citizens: l am satisfied
| that you feel the heat Of the evening
to your great Inconvenience, but from
! this fact L derive u comfort, for your
presence under such circumstances is
proof that you are interested, and that
If your judgments arc convinced we
may securely count on your earnest as
sistance in the great work before us.
The object of the meeting, us you are
| aware, is twofold. Our Democratic
friends have assembled to ratify the
nominations made mt the Baltimore
Convention, and l say it, although dis
tinctly a Reformer, that consider tho
claims of any other party to ratify those
nominations, as impudent as it is absurd.
If Greeley and Brown are to be our
next President and Vice President,
how is it expected they will be so OK
ccpt through the Democratic party as Il
National organization
When these Liberal Republicans
stand UP and claim to ,icnouncc the
Democratic party, and assert that it has
gone out ofcNistcncc, they sultify them
selves; because they are incompetent
to accomplish their objects without the
assistance Of that party.
l. am now, as was on the Eth of
February, Il nonintcrvcntionist in Fed
cral politics, and | intend to occupy
the platform then adopted, because !
think it is deserving of my support.
/ stand here and beg of you, in the
name of God, to stand firm to your
principles; to hold fast to this relic of
the past; 10 reject all dishonesty and
corruption, and determine to not Gle
vatc to office any but men OF spoticss
character, of unsulIird cscutci,cOns.
In this spirit, u few days ago, we
united the Democratic and Reform par
ties. Our motive was to cut off the
possibility Of Il surrender by the pcO-
pie under fear of danger to Il man who
is teaching a philosophy, which if tri-
umphant, will leave its bancful and
corrupt influence with your and my
children.
lie assured them. that if they sub
mittcd to a coalition and surrendered
their rights, they might consider the
contest at an end, for they would have
Warmoth as Governor for the next four
years; but if they had the manlincss to
stand up for two months more, to put
their trust in Providence and assert
their privileges as citizens of Louisiana,
they would gain the sympathy of the
entire country, "and then" said he,
"this man Will be glad to como into
your ranks to make what reputation