New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-07-07
Address to the People of the state Of
EnmFsfnuu.

i The two conventions recently assembled
ia 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 a 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 radiealism.
The action of the convention could not
/ have been expected to reflect the public SEN
/ timent or to be equal to the occasion, Sc
| lected as its members were, four months
/ previous to its meeting, and under a very
/ different state of circumstances. 1t was an
| terror to the Cincinnati movement, which
| then was but family muttering the thunders
| of that storm that now RACES throughout
/ 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
saw 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-
stitutiOnaI 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-
nected; 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 eOuntenaneed 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 irrevecably to Grant.
It is against this action of the eOnyen-
lions that we protest; and we appeal to the
people to rally, and discarding all consid-
erations 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 oOnven-
ton of delegates, on a 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 August next,
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, 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.
RAPIDES PARISH.
We. the undersigned, citizens 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 proposed shall be held on
the first Monday of August, 1872, as therein |
suggested: