Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1872-06-29
Liberal Reform Meeting.
ALEXANDRA, La,

!. Pursuant to call made by the citi
, zens of Rapides Parish, q Mass Meet
ing of the Liberal Reform Party and
the friends of the Cincinnati platform
and nominees was held at the Town
Hall on Saturday, June 22d, for the
purpose of ratifying the Cincinnati
platform and the nominations Of
Horace Greeley and B. Gratz Brown
for the Presidency and Vice Presi
dency of the United States. The
meeting was called to order and or
gained by calling Captain Joseph w.
Texada to the chair as President.
The following Vice. Presidents were
then appointed: Judge c. Baltic, j.
W. Prescott, General NJ. Wells and j.
w. POllitt.
&C. French and 8. Cullen were ap.
pointed Secretaries.
On motion the President appointed
the following gentlemen a committee
to draft resolutions: T. Spence Smith,
John A. Williams, VIM. j. Calvit, DR..
s. Gordon, j. G.. p. Hooe, w. w.
Wilmington, ST., John Clark and
General M. Wells.
In the interval elapsing during the
time consumed by the committee in
drafting resolutions, Major w. F.
Blackman was called upon to address
the meeting, which he did in an able,
eloquent and satisfactory manner, set
ting forth the paramount objects of
the organization, with a view to put a
stop to the corruption and oppressive
system of government under which we
to day groan.
Amid the hearty cheers, with which
Mr.. Blackman's remarks were closed,
MIR. VIM. &. Seay, was called upon
and promptly responder in ais usual
felicitous and lucid style, carrying
conviction to the minds of his hearers.
At the close of his remarks Messrs.
I. Spence Smith and w. G. McGimpsy
were called upon and did credit to the
honor conferred upon them. .~
The committee on resolutions hav.
Ing reported. The following resolu.
tons were read by the chairman, Mr..
7. Spence Smith, and unanimously
adopted: -a
Resolved, That the Convention Of,
Democrats and Reform parties which
recently assembled in New Orleans
have tailed to meet the requirements
of the situation, and the people of
Louisiana must now ipaugurate a
movement that shall give some assur-
ance of success.
Resolved, That We regard it to be
the first duty of every good citizen. ir.
respective of creed or color to lend ey- |
cry energy to preserve our local gov.
eminent against the increasing en-.
crOachments of that Federal power
which threatens ultimately to merge
every vestige of Republican govern.
ment into Capitalization and ruin.
Resolved, That we recognize the
equality of all men before the law, aud |
the equal participation of all citizens
IN the rights and benefits of the gov
eminent !. the subordinatiOn Of the |
military to the civil authority; the ga |
cred inviOlabiiity of the right of Ha-
beas Corpus, and the endeavOr to |
thoroughly cleanse aGd purify from its
present corrupt condition the civil SER
vice of the government, and faithful
and honest compliance with its every
obligation. :.
Resolved, That two deprecate as ru-
nous to our common interests the eff. |
forts 30 strenuously made by the
Grant Republicans and the factions of
INSCRIPTIONS office-seekefs to array
the cOlOred people against the whites
in order that they may reap the spoils |
of Office and grow fat upon the increas.
ed ruin and sufferings of down-trod
den people, and that we now cordially
extend the olive branch of peace to
the cOlored people of the Parish and
State, and earnestly entreat them to
mite with US in arresting the onward |
march of all those evils under which
we are alike gr0aning, and to share
with Us in the glorious work of re-
deeming our State and country fiom
misrule and oppression.
Resolved, That we endorse the prin
ciples enunciated in the Cincinnati
platform and pledge our earnest sup
port to the nominations of Horace
Greeley, of New York, for the Presi-
dency, and b. Gratz Brown, OF Mis-.
souri,, tor the Vice Presidency, and
that we recognize in these standard
bearers of Reform the only hope of
future success against the enemy of
our government, and that We regard
as ruinOus and unwise any disposition
ON the part of the Democracy to make
at Baltimore.