New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-12
NATIONAL AND STATE REFORM
CONVENTION OF THE PEOPLE
THREE CONSERVATIVE COMMITTEES

Address to the People Of the State Of 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 a view Of uniting all of the conser va
tive political elements in the State, ire
spective of party and past political differ
ences, in order that we may present an un-
divided front to ultra-Radicalism.
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 very
different state of circumstances. 1t was
anterior to the Cincinnati movement, which
then was but family muttering the thun-
ders Of that storm that now RACES through
out the entire land. Since then, political
earthquake has occurred, disFupting parties
and creating 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. Inthe great
contest which now RACES over the who
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 Louis
lana will array themselves on the one side
or the other. National and State reform
are one and inseparable. They can not be
disconnected it is folly and political sui
eide to seek to separate them.
When the Democratic and Reform COM
m1ttees undertook to repudiate the proposed
fusion of all the elements of national and
State reform, in one general convention, to
nominate State, electoral and congressional
tickets, they perpetrated an act which, if
cOuntenanced by the people Of the State,
protracts indefinitely our present miseries,
insures the reinstallatiOn of dishonesty,
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 conven-
tions 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 undersigned
executive committees that convention of
delegates, on basis of duplicate of the
present representation in the House of Rep
resentatives of the General Assembly of
Louisiana, shall be elected by the di ifferent
parishes and districts of the city of New Or
leans, to meet at the city of New Orleans on
the first Monday of August next, for the
purpose Of thorough organization of all
who concu II in these views, sentimen is and
Objects and of nominating an elee tOral,
State and congressional ticket, under the
banner of national and State reform, and
the leadership of Greeley and Brown.
DANIEL w. ADAMS,
Chairman Independent Greeley and Brown
Executive Committee.
E. NORTH CULLOM,
Acting Chairman Liberal Republican Ex-
eeutive Committee.
J. HASSINGER,
Chairman German Committee.
New Orleans, La, June TO- 1872.