The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-08-10

- ""i 'S1Cs as Ill lCOU. IN 1868, at the
with twelve parishes thrown onfsSVcoT''
all know the favorable circnmstonc"1
that then developed a large yotr IN"
party not appearing at the Dolls, AnS
Ill 1870 We voted ALTO votes, If tLnn
we have never under any circumstances
before or after the war, voted over ~
3;l0 votes, how can it be claimed that We
nave 10000 votes. Mr.. Jonas. the bon
0cratlc candidate for CO.
erllOf, says that he is informed the last
Chlted States census makes the whites
II blacks equal i'll numbers. But now
goes 1t happen that the whites never mn
Ger any circumstances have ever voted
any thing nearequallyP The negro votn
mas never been less than 5000, and has
gone up to $4,000. These figures are not
eSIlnateS, but facts and asc~ertained re-
SUITS. II we unite every whiteyOte there
WlllStltl beaCOnSiderable negro majority
But have We under OurCOntrOl the wh;tHH
votes! 1t may safely be said that the
CuStOmh0ltSr controls 1000 white RhtnS
throughout the State. The Reformers
claim largely, but the best advices rive
them not 800 reliable (mOth
and his followers, includmS%Tis bst of
Office holders and his personal friends
number 1000. The Germans numhpr
5000 votes, and the Liberal party, excln-
dung these, number Over 10000 who have
already declared for it. We have thus
10000 white votes that there is every
reason to believe will not act with the
Democratic party in voting for it's pres
II State ticket. In this estimate we
have gwen the Liberals only 10000, but
we all know that the rank and tileOf the
party Is gong 0yertOthem bythousands,
and truly believe that at the present
speaking, fOur-tifths of the whitcso ont nf
New Orleans have determined to reDu-
diate the marrow and prospective ticket
nominated by the committees presided
over by Messrs. LaScre and Randolph
respectively. How many votes wiilthat
ticket receive in this parish under the
present circumstances? | state conf
IDENTIFY IN your presence what You know,
that 1T would not receive twentv-tiyc
votes. And the same influence that
governs this outraged, prosecuted. and
dcspOlled parish governs every other
country parish. But we have not only
to obtain, before we can succeed,
every white vote except the one thou
sand CustOmhOuSe followers and de-
pendents, but we must have the aid
and assistance of Il large number of
our COlOred citizens. To succeed we
need the votes of five thousand intelli-
gent, patriotic colOred men. Can the
Democratic party hope to obtain them
The man would be crazy that would en-
terrain the thought. How can they be
obtained except through the aid Of the
Liberal Republicans and underthe name
OF Horace Greeley, the best friend the
black man ever had. Though in good
faith the Democratic party has determ-
med to protect and maintain the rights
Of the colOred people, yet for many eau
SEES they mlstrlSt us, and will not vote
for usof our nominees. Therefore, if
we wish to succeed andr our State
and our race, we must leave the paths
made dusty by Il Democratic funerals
and take anew departure. The country
is i'll danger, and our allegiance tot it and
Il race rises higher than our party ties
and OvertOps them. We have been and
are prepared to sacrifice our lives for our
country, and yet W. hesitate to sacrifice
our party-nO, not our party, hutthe fOs-
sis that claim to be our party. We fol-
low the National Democratic COnveil-
ton, which, innOminating Horace Gree
ley, in effect proclaimed in Baltimore :
Even let our party perish, if need be,
but let our country live!
Pardon me here, if | refer to myself.
For twenty Years | have been a Demo-
crat, and whilst during all that time [
have been a worker for the party, advO-
eating it's principles in the halls of tho
rich and the cottages of the poor, Ihavc
never had o. sought for office, nor have
| ever handled a dollar of the public
money. / claim, therefore, that my de-
vOtion was unseltish, and born of the
love / bore for the principles of the par
ty; and when | say to You to-day that
time and the sword have destroyed The
issues fought for by the Democracy in
the past, and there is nothing bef0reyOu
at this time save the issues of Feconcilia-
ton and peace, and honest and good
government, | state but the u~nvarnisllrd
truth, and all this is embodied in the
Cincinnati platform. 1t is therefore,
good enough for you and /, and whilst l
advise all who are DESTROYS of saving the
State and country TO act with the Liber-
ais, | can not accept the conclusions of
the Central Committed that for this I am
a traitor to the grand old Democracy, for
| but follow in the footsteps of Pendle-
ton, and Blair, and Seymour and Hend-
ricks, and the entire national Democracy.
eff thisb be treason, makethe most Ofit!"
The Liberal party is a party born of
the necessities of the times. The Radi-
cal party, debauched with hate and cor
ruptiOn, threatens to build npa personal
government and imperialism whose eP~
menting tie is. hatred TO YOU. and lis
pledged to your destruction and TO the
dominion Of Ignorance and the sword.
The Democratic party, once powerful
and great, was unable to stem this tor
rent of hate, because Radicafism appeal
ed to ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and animOsi-
ties bcgotten by the war. Amid this
state of things, when all vas darkness
and gloom, when oppression had become.
the rule, and the Constitution and laws
were but as ropes of sand, when the
heart Of the patriot had ankWithin him,
and thinking men f0resaw the speedy
destruction Of the little that remains to
| us of liberty, GratZ Brown i~naugurated
the Liberal movement in Missouri. Soon
it attracted the attention of tile good
throughout the land, and what was then
but a feeble ray of light amid the sur
rounding gloom, is 0 etulgent Wlfnthe
benificent beams OF returning peace and
good will, until even the South, setting
in desolatiOn amid the ruins and ashes
Of the past, is begriled OF her sorrow
and looks trustingly and hopefully Tor
the dawning of this bettermOrnlns. Inc
Liberal party promises her peace; not
the peace youchsafed by he o.. horse
back and Of the sword at Washington,
the peaceof destruction. the peace given
by the Russians to Warsaw ana the
Poles, but q genuine, heayen-bearIng
peace, born of good will and forgettul-
ness Of the past.
tt assures her that she shall henceforth
be permitted to conduct and regulate her
w affairs without the superintendent
| and interference Of the cleaning bayo,,
net. 1t proposes to put an honest ana
good man-HOrace GreeIey-at the lead
Of the government, not an llnoiusiiinE