The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-08-03
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dependents, but we must have the aid
and assistance of a large number OF
our colored citizens. TO succeed we
need the votes of 5000 intelligent, pat
riotie colored men. Can the Democratic
party hope to obtain them7 The man
would be crazy that would entertain
the thought. How can they be OBJ
tained except through the aid of the
Liberal Republicans and under the
name of Horace Greeley, the best
friend the black man ever had +? Tho
in good faith the Democratic party
has determined to protect and main
tain the rights of the colored people,
yet for many causes they mistrust us,
most unjustly, but still they mistrust
us and will not vote for lis or our nom
inees. Therefore, if we wish to sue
ceed and redeem our State and our
race, we must leave the paths made
dusty by our Democratic funerals and
take a new departure. The country
is in danger, and our allegiance to it
and our race rises higher than our par
ty ties and 0vertOps them. We have
been and are prepared to sacrifice our
lives for our country, and yet we hes
ltate to sacrifice our party not our
party, but the fossils that claim to be
our partyR We follow the National
Democratic Convention, which in NOM
mating Horace Greeley in effect pro-
claimed, in Baltimore Even let our
party perish, if need be, but let our
country live! #elt #'
Pardon me here, if refer to myself.
For twenty years have been DEM
Ocrat, and whilst during all that time
l have been a worker for the party,
advocating its principles in the halls
of the rich and the cottages of the
poor, have never had or sought for
office, nor have | ever handled dol
lar of the public money. l claim,
therefore, that my devotion was un-
selfish, and born of the love bore for
the principles of the party; and when
l say to you to-day that time and the
sword have destroyed theissues fought
for by Democracy in the past, and that
there is nothing before you at this
time save the issues of reconciliation
and peace, and honest and good gov
ernment, state but the unvalnislled
truth, and all this is embodied in the
Cincinnati platform 1t is therefore
good enough for you and /, and whilst
advise all who are desirous of saving
the State and country to act with the
Liberals, | can not accept the conclu-
sion of the Central Committee that for
this am a traitor to the grand old
Democracy, for / hut follow in the
footsteps of Pendleton, and Blair, and
Seymour, and Hendricks, and the en-
tire national Democracy. If this be
treason, make the most of it'll si
The Liberal party is party born,
of the necessities of the times. The
Radical party, debauched with hate
and corruption, threatens to build up
q personal government and imperial
ism, whose .cementing tie is hatred to
you, and is pledged to your destruc-
tion aud to the dominion of ignorance
and the sword. The Democratic party,
once powerful and great, was unable
to stem this torrent of hate, because
Radicalism appealed to sectional pref
udices and animosities begotten by
the war;. Amid this state of things,
when all was darkness and gloom,
when oppression had become the rule,
and the Constitution and laws were
but as ropes of sand, when the heart
of the patriot had sank within him
and thinking men foIesaw the speedy
destruction of the little that remains
to us of liberty, Gratz Brown inaugtl-
rated the Liberal movement in Mis-
souri,. Soon it attracted the attention
of the good throug ghout the land, and
what was then hut a feeble ray of
light amid the surrounding gloom, is
now etfulgent with the benlfcent
beams of returning peace and good
will, until eveD the South, setting in
desolatiOn amid the ruins and ashesof
the past, is .besuiled of her sorrow and
looks trustipay and hopefully for the
dawning of this better morning. The
Liberal part promises her peace; not
the peace vsuchsafed by he on horse
back and OF the sword at Washington,
the peace of destruction, the peace
given by the Russians to Warsaw and
the Poles, but genuine, heaven
bearing peace, born of good will and
forgetful1ess of the past.
1t assures her that she shall hence
forth bs permitted toeonduet and reg
ulate her own affairs without the SUI
perintndence and interference of the
cleaning bayonet. It proposes to put
an lonest and good man--Horaee
Gredey-at the head of the govern
meut, not an unblushing plunderer
and gift-receiver and immoral sot.
1t viii see that the treasury and the
money wrung from you by the tax
ggtherer is not used to enrich military
rings and wretched adventurers. 1t
viii clear out the Augean stables at
Washington and abolish a 81 stem that
has made civil service a resort for
thieves, and turned some of the de-
partments of the government into
houses of questionable repute. 1t viii
legislate for the good of the whole
country, and not make Congress an
engine of oppression that, whilst it is
bestowing enormous gratuities upon