The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-07-06
Address to
The People of Louisiana.
Call for a 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 Radiealism.
The action of the convention could not
have been expected to reflect the public sen
tiInent, or to be equal to the occasion, select
ed as its members were, four months pre-
vious to its meeting, and under q very diff
fercnt 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, political earth
quake has occurred disrupting parties and
creating chasm 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 IL conflict Lousianians shall
be idle spectators is an insult to their under
standing and patriotism. In the great con-
test which now RACES over the whole coun-
try, between honesty, liberty aud constitu-
tional government ON the ole side, and vice,
despotIsm and imperialism on the other,
there can and will be no such thing as neu-
trality. The people of Louisiana will array
themselves on the one side or the other
National and State reform are one and insep-
arabic. They can not be 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
eountenanced by the people of the State,
protraets indefinitely our present miseiies,
insures the re-installation OF dishonesty, cor
ruption and prodigality in our State Legisla-
| ture for the next four years, and gives the
| State irreyOcably to Grant,
| 1t is against this action of the conventions
that we protest, and we appeal to the people
to rally, and, discarding 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 convention of
delegates, on basis of q duplicate of the
present representation in the House of Rep
resentatiyes of the General Assembly of
| Louisiana, shall be elected by the different
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 q thorough organization of all
| who concur in 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
Z. NORTH CULLOM,
Acting Chairman Liberal Republican Exec
utive Committee.
j. HASSINGER,
Chairman German Committee
New Orleans, La, June 10, 1871.