The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-07-06
Address TO
The People of Louisiana.
Call for Liberal Republican Convention

The two conventions recently assembled
in this city having failed to meet the require
| ments the emergency demanded, we, the
| undersigned committees, have determined
to appeal to the people of Louisiana with a
| view of uniting all of the conservative polit-
ical elements in the State, irrespective OF
party and past political differences, in order
that we may present an undivided front to
| ultra Radicalism.
| The action of the convention could not
| have been expected to reflect the public sell
tinent, or to be equal to the occasion, select
! ed as its members were, four months pre-
yious to its meeting, and under IA very diff
| ferent state of circumstances. 1t was ante
rior to the Cincinnati movement, which then
was but family muttering the thunders OF
! that storm that now RACES throughout the
entire land. Since then, a political earth
quake has occurred, disrupting parties and
creating ehasm broad and deep between
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 under
standing and patriotism. In the great con-
test which now RACES over the whole cOlII-
| try, between honesty, liberty aud colstitu-
tiOnal government on the one side, and vice,
despotism and imperialism ON the other,
there can and will be no such thing as neu-
1IC pcOplt vi lLOttlSldIlh Will
themselves on the one side or the other.
National and State reform are one and insep-
arabic. They can not he disconnected !; it is
| folly and political suicide to seek to separate
them.
When the Democratic and Reform commit
tees 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,
pr0tracts indefinitely our present miseries,
insures the re-installation of dishonesty, cor
ruption and prodigality in our State Legisla-
ture for the next four years, and gives the
State nrevocably to Grant,
1t is against this action of the conventions
that we protest, and we appeal to the people
to rally, and describing all considerations Of
individuals, of party prejudice and prestige,
all past feuds and divisions, to unite in an
organization which alone can save the ma
ton from ruin, and the people from the
overthrow of their constitutional liberty.
1t is therefore ordered by the undersigned
executive committees that a convention of
delegates, on II basis of "a duplicate of the
present representation in the House of Rep
resentatives of the General Assembly of
Louisiana, shall be elected by the different
parishes and districts of the city of New Or
leans, to meet ut the city of New Orleans on
the first Monday of August next, for the
purpose of q thorough organization of all
WHO concur i'll 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.
DANIEL w. ADAMS,
Chairman Independent Greeley and Brown
Executive Committee.
L. NORTH CULLOM,
Acting Chairman Liberal Republican Exec
utive Committee.
j. HASSINGER,
Chairman German COMMITTEES.
New Orleans, La, june TO- 1871.