New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-07-14
AxOyelles speaks.

We copy the following report from the
Marksville, Avoyelles parish, Register:
A mass meeting of citizens, irrespective
of party, was held at Evergreen on the first
instant. There was a very good attend
ance, and nearly every creed of politics
was represented. The meeting was organ
lied by the appointment of g. B. VOORHEES,,
Esq, as president and A. B. IriOn, Esq
secretary.
The president briefly explained that the
object of the meeting was to give express
sion to the views of the people in that
neighborhoOd relative to the nomination of
Greeley and Brown, and having concluded
his remarks, appointed a committee com
posed of Messrs. John Ewell, w. NJ. Ewell
and L. Miles to draft resolutions for that
purpose.
The committee reported in favor of the
Cincinnati platform and the Endorsement
of Horace Greeley and B. Graft Brown.
The report was enthusiastically received
and unanimously adopted.
The following resolutions, relative to
State affairs, were then offered and adopted
without dissenting voice:
WHEREAS, The conventions recently held
in the city of New Orleans, representing
distinct party organizations, failed to form
a union and to nominate a ticket which will
call to its support all the conservative ele-
ReS0LUed, That we recommend our fellow
citizens to ignore. all party organizations
and party nominations, and to meet in con-
ventions simply as an oppressed people. de-
termined to escape from their present thral-
dom, and for this purpose to unite in the
fOrma ion of ticket for State and parish
officers that will the most effectually call
to its support every voter in the State who
is opposed to the ruinOus policy which has
heretofore prevailed in our government.
That we are opposed to the further main
tenance of distinct Democratic, Reform and
Liberal Republican party organizations,
which, in our opinion, will only give rise to
further disagreements as to the proportions
ate representation of each party among the
candidates to be selected, and that we favor
a general convention, in which all parties
may unite on an equal footing in the nomi-
nation of men whose integrity is unqdes-
toned, regardless of former party atfili-
ations.
That in the political contest about to be
inaugurated we will not inquire if a candi-
date was formerly Democrat or a Republic
can, white man OF eOlOred enc; and that
we will recognize no tests of fitness for office
save integrity of character, determination
to effect a thorough reform in every branch
of our government, to restore the ecenOmi-
cal system formerly established in carrying
ON its various operations and to reduce tax
alton as far as is consonant with the pay
ment of just debts and the ordinary ex-
penses of government.
That we fully indorse and approve the
recent call made for Liberal Reform State
convention, to. be held in New Orleans on
the first Monday in August next.
A call was made for meeting in Mansura
on the twentieth, for the selection of dele
gates to attend the State convention to be
held in New Orleans on the first Monday of
August, and the people throughout the par
ish were requested to send delegates to the
Mansura meeting, after which the meeting
adjourned