The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-07-13
What tile Signs Indicate.
PROM the New Orleans Republiean.

moi lSling is only one of the many evil
denVes that are constantly being re-
ceivpd from differents parts of the
Statb that Governor Warmoth is to
be tFic guberiRtorial nominee OF the
gretkt convention which is to be held
in this city next August. Caddo par
ish il but representative of the State at
large. Her people are in active SYM
patlsy with the people of all North
Louisiana, just as New Orleans is in
actige sympathy with the people of
South Louisiana. An identity of in
terest has produced an identity of
Thought, and the result is seen iii the
movement which organizes the entire
conservative strength of the common
wealth TO effect a nomination in ia
vor bf the State, similar to that which
the same identity of interest and
Thought organized at Cincinnati in be-
halfsdf Che nation at large. The de-
ma1d of every political party, now
comes from the people themselves,
not only in favor of a change of ad-
minsstr;ation, but in favor of a change
of PARTIES. The State has suffered un-
til ssh. can bear it no longer, and de-
spairing of relief from the agencies
which she has hitherto looked to, the
people assert their disposition to make
this year such combination as will
help them. They have been promised
immltnity from plunder by every man
and. ky every party, and yet they have
been cheated year after year until
they can tolerate cheating no further.
The Republicans. so-called, who now
SUPPORT General Grant and Senator
Kellogg, solemnly pledged themselves
to ecbnomy and enmity to monopo-
lies. and yet they wasted the public
moneys and created close corporations
for eSefy interest in the State. The
Democrats promised to defeat these
schemes, ,and failed for want strength.
With corruption eating them up
and inability vainly striving to beat it
back, the people either had to be con-
sumed or they had to look for assist
anee I'd some other quarter than in the
Democratic camp. Governor War
moth offered them the aid they sought.
He volunteered to strengthen the
cause of right and justice, provided
the people would do right and be just
themselves. They made their own
misfortune by their preiudices against
ii race of people with whom it was
their necessity to live, and toward
whom it as their duty to be liberal:
This wa, Che cause of their defeat and
depressio' They were SO deeply in
volged il this wrong, both in Louisi-
ana and IN all the other States, that
tiey had to devise new leverage
vi &srewith to lift themselves out of
til pit into which they had fallen.
Their errors had so strengthened the
party in power that it no longer needed
to- be honest to be successful, and it
gradually fell into corrupt practices
and despotic actions. A spontaneous
pmtest of the people was the result.
e country clamored for u change.
lfsought to get rid of the Republican
party, but it refused to trust the work
OF salvation to the Democracy, be-
cttuse it doubted the result. The peo-
l.se had tried that remedy four times,
d had failed to effect the cure they
anted, and, like sick man who has
satisfied himself that one medicine
will not cure him, demands another,
they asked for new helper. The
Cincinnati convention offered to do
the work which the Democracy had
failed to perform, and in their sore
Sstress the people have consented to
Stcept the help that thus unexpected
n, - l.,
Gated Mr.. Greeley for forty years are
now his most ardent supporters, be-
"a use from being their opponent he
has strangely come to be their
friend.
AS it was in the nation so it is in
"a the State. The people of Lonisi-
INA felt discouraged ut their con-
ftiOn. The way was dark be-
bre them. The party that was ad
Fnitted to be in the majority was no
'torfopsly incompetent to administer
the government honestly, or else it
was disinclined to do so. Instead of
improving it grew worse. In the
&niast OF this uncertainty aud dark
mess Governor Warmoth held out IL
fCEplLS w litOSC hIiO cSooo Suh
founded at the dreary prospect that
thd future presented. He only asked
in return for his assistance that what
good he had done should be guaran-
lteed from destruction by those whom
|hei had opposed when their success
was accomplished. He told the peo-
pie that he proposed to 'eliver them
from their oppressors, but he could
only do SO upon the engagement that
they would not become oppressors in
sheir hour of triumph. He demanded
in return for amnesty. The
parties of the past were to be forgotten
FIN the party of the present. Who
ever worked in the labor of salvation
shDuld be rewarded according to his
services.
The news from Shreveport is the
answer to this offer, as the news from
Baltimore will be the answer to the
|of1er from Cincinnati. The people of
nuisiana intend to aceent Governor