New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-07-09
TEW ORLEANS, TUESDAY, JULY g. 1872.
Address TO the People of the State of
Louisiana.

Louisiana.
The two conventions recently assembled
in this city having failed TO meet the re-
quirements the emergency demanded, we,
the undersigned committees, have deter
mined TO appeal to the people of Louisiana,
with view OF uniting all the conservative
political elements of 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 torefect the public SEN
tlment, or to be equal to the oecasi0n,. Sc
| lected, as its members were, four months
! previous to its meeting, and under very
/ different state of circumstances. It was an
| terror to the Cincinnati movement, which
! then was butfaintly muttering the thunders
/ Of that STERN that now RACES throughout
| the entire land. Since then a political
/ earthquake has occurred, disrupting parties
and creating a chasm broad and deep be-
/ tween the followers of Cincinnati and the
friends of the national administration
Such is the national outlook to-day. To
say that. in such a conflict, LOuisianians
shall be idle spectators, is an insult to their
understanding and patriotism. In the great
confess which now RACES over the whole
country between honesty, liberty and con-
| stItun0nal government on the one side,
and vice, despOtisn and Imperialism on.the
other, there can and will be-n0 such thing
as neutrality. The people of Louisiana will
array themselves on the one side or the
other. National and State reform are one
and inseparable. They can not be discon-
nectedI it is folly and political suicide to
seek tOi separate them.
When the Democratic and Reform COM
mitteea undertook to repudiate the pro
posed fusion of all the elements of national
and State reform, in one general eOnven-
ton to nominate State, electoral and CON.
gressiohal tickets, they perpetrated an act
which, III cOuntenanced by the people Of the
State, protracts indefinitely our present
miserles, insures the TeinstallatiOn of dis |
honesty, corruption and prodigality in our
State Legislature for the next four years,
and gives the State irrevoeably to Grant
1t is against, this action of the conven-
tions that we protest; and we appeal to the
people to rally, and discarding all c0nsid-
eratiOnB of individuals, of party prejudice
and prestige, all past feuds and divisions,
to unite IN an organization, which alone can
save the nation from ruin, and the people
from tie overthrow of their constitutional
liberty.
1t is therefore ordered by the under |
signed executive committees that cOnVen- |
ton of delegates, on a basis of duplicate |
of the present representation in the House |
of Representatives of the General Assem- |
bly, of Louisiana, shall be elected by the |
different parishes and districts of the city |
of New Orleans, 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 and congressional ticket under the |
banner of national and State reform. and
the leadership of Greeley and Brown.
New Orleans, Louisiana, June 10, 1872.
DANIEL w. ADAMS,
Chairman Independent Greeley and Brown
Executive Committee.
E. NORTH CULLOM,
Acting Chairman Liberal Republican Ex-
ecutive Committee.
j. HASSINGER,
Chairman German Committee
We, the undersigned, citizens of Natchi-
toehes parish, of the State of Louisiana;
without distinction of party, fully concur in
and fully approve of the foregoing address,
and recommend that the State convention
shall be held on the first Monday
of August, 1872, as therein suggested: