New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-23
g. P. THURsrox, Secretary.
Address to 9he People of the State Of
Louisiana.


Address to 5he People of the State OF
Louisiana.
The two conventions recently assembled
! in this city having failed to meet the re-
guirements the emergency demanded, we,
the undersigned committees, have deter
mined to appeal to the people of Louisiana,
with a view of uniting all the conservative
political elements in the State, irrespective
of party and past political differences, in
order that we may present an undivided
front to ultra radiealism.
The action of the convention could not
have been expected to reflect the public
sentiment, or to be equal to the occasion,
selected, as its members were, four months
previous to its meeting, and under a very
different state of circumstances. 1t was
anterior to the Cincinnati movement, which
then wss but family muttering the thun-
ders Of that storm that now RACES through
out the entire land. Since then political
earthquake has occurred, disrupting parties
and creating a ehasm 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
contest, which now RACES over the whole
country, between honesty, liberty and con-
stitutiOnal government on the one side, and
vice, despOtism and imperialism on the
other, there can and will be no 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-
necte6; it is folly and political suicide to
seek TO separate them.
When the Democratic and Reform com
mittees undertook to repudiate the pro-
posed fusion of all the elements of national
and State reform, in one general cOnven-
ton to nominate State, electoral and con-
gressiOnal tickets, they perpetrated an act
which, if cOuntenanced by the people of the
State, protracts indefinitely our present
miseries, insures the reinstallation of dis
honesty, corruption and prodigality in our
State Legislature for the next four years,
and gives the State irrevOcably to Grant.
1t is against this action of the convention
that we protest; and we appeal to the PEG,
pie to rally, and, discarding all cOnsidera-
tons 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 the overthrow of their constitutional
liberty.
1t is therefore ordered by the UNDER
signed executive committees that a cOnven-
ton of delegates, on basis of a duplicate
of the present representation in the House
of Representative 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 Adjustment,
for the purpose of 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, La, June 10, S72.