New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-07-23
ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF LOUIS
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HEADoCARTERs LIBERAL PARTY OF LOUISIANA, :
New Orleans, July Il, 1872


Standard bearers Horace Greeley for PTesi.
dent and B. Gratz Brown for Vice Presi-
dent, and presented for the consideration
OF the people declaration of principles.
The Baltimore convention, cOncurring in the
causes and reasons which gave birth to
that great popular movement, indorsed
their nominations and accepted the plat
form on which their candidates stood. 1t
has thus set an example to the country
which every consideration of political
safety and expediency requires should be
initiated within the States.
If the Democratic party has maintained
! its national organization, it Is only that the
alliance with Liberalism may be rendered
stronger OF more effective. The delegates
WAC met at Baltimore for the purpose of
cementing that alliance could not have an
ticIpated that fractions of their party, in
the several States, would set themselves in
opposition to the Liberal Reform move
ment, by using their organizations for the
| purpose OF perpetuating divisions through
the nomination and support of separate
| electoral and State tickets. They knew
that without union on these points the &C
! ceptance of Greeley and Brown would be
! only mOckery, delusiOn and a snare.
In other States, as IN Illinois and Indiana,
| the plain course dictated by common sense
and common honesty has been followed,
and close union with the Liberals has
! been effected. In one JOINT State ticket
! has been nominated, and in the other the
| formation Of the electoral ticket has been
! RENTED to the whole body of Liberals. In
! every State, except Louisiana friendly rela-
| tons have been established between the
| Liberals and the Democracy, and efforts
| have been made in good faith to unite the
! Liberal and the Democratic vote for State
| as well as for national purposes In LOuiSi-
| ana alone different course has been pur-
sued. In Louisiana alone the Liberal
| party-that party which first rallied to
the support Of the Cincinnati movement,
which anticipated the decision of the
national Democracy, and which gave a
| re istless impulse to the Greeley and Brown
tlcket-has been treated by the Democratic
organization with cOntumely and sCorn,
and made the object of bitter invectiye and
denunciatiOn. And yet, in Louisiana, per
haps more than in any other State, a thor
Ough union of the Liberal and Democratic
vote is necessary to success. So evident is
this fact that on the adjournment of the
Opera House Democratic Convention, thou
sands OF Democrats in New Orleans and
throughout the State abandoned the Demo
cratic organization and joined the Liberal
party. These accessiOns are counted by
tens of thousands. They are so numerous
that we can assert as an indisputable fact
that, in at least half of the parishes, the
Democratic organization is without a fol-
lower, and III the greater portion of the rest
the Liberal party commands a large ma
Jonty OF what was once the Democratic
vote.
In the whole State there are but six iorr-
nails supporting the Democratic OF united
State ticket, and Of the ifty-six parishes
not half dozen are represented in the
Democratic State Committee. In spite of
these conspicuous facts, the Democratic or
ganizatiOn, thus reduced TO minimum of
voting power, persists in keepIngup a show
nc I L.
and the Democratic committee, thus emas-
culated Of representative character, has
nominated and presented a State and cleo
toral ticket. No rational man believes that
they expect to elect either one or the other
and hence the public can come to 10 other
conclusion than that they are running their
State ticket in the interest of the Baton
Rouge candidates, and their electoral ticket
for the purpose of defeating Greeley and
Brown, the nominees of their own National
Convention. We distinctly charge this upon
them, because We have no right to assume !
that they are so blind as not to see the facts |
OF the situation, or so silly as not TO fOresee !
the necessary effects of their own acts.
1t is proper for the whole country as |
well as for the people Of this State to know |
that the Democratic Tump organization, |
While pretending to accept the decision of |
the Baltimore convention, is in reality hos !
tile to the national Liberal candidates, and |
that while it presents an electoral ticket in !
the name of Greeley and Brown, it is try
ing 10 give the vote of the State to Grant
Whether this course is the fulfllment of
the contract entered into last winter be
tween the Cus-omhOuse party and the
Democratic committees; whether it is the
result OF more recent and more secret bar
gains, having Tor their object the control Of
local offices and patronage, or whether il is
dictated by an unreasOning Obstinacy which
oil To- -
concession and Cancellation, the public will
decide according to the probabilities Of the
case.
Whatever may be the decision, the Lib
9Tal party feels that, if unfortunately the
State should be lost, they will at least not
DC held responsible at the bar Of public
opinion. But they are convinced that the
good sense Of the people will avert the ca
a1nitous consequences which might other
wise result from the bad faith or the
pTejUdices of the Democratic
eaders They do not believe that the peo-
Die will permit the State to be sacrificed at
he dlctatlOn Of men who have shown them
elves utterly incompetent to understand
he necessities of the times and incapabIe |
If achieving anything but defeat.
The Liberal party appeals to all citizens
who are opposed to Grants administration; |
o all who are sincerely in favor of Greeley
md Brown; to all who wish to defeat the
Vaccinations of the corrupt and wicked
action represented by the Baton Rouge
icket. Their convention, to be held on the
fifth Of August, will represent a vast ma.
GRITTY Of the Liberal and Democratic voters
Il the State, and their ticket will be sup
DOrted by an array of numerical force
'acked by an amount Of moral influence,
which will reduce the Democratic bolt to
Insignificant and, perhaps, inappreciabIe =
proportions. The people understand that =
4 this election the State must 90 either /
or the Liberal or for the CustOmh0use q
arSy. The success Of the one insures our =
ote for Greeley and Brown, and will give t
s that practical reform in State affairs
'hich we so much need. The success of =
be other, with Mr.. Kellogg as Governor,
nd reversiOn Of the executive office to
ne notorious Z. {. Antoine, will entail on
8 perpetuatiOn Of corrupt and venal leg
station and all the horrors Of government 7
emitted 10 the hands Of the ignorant the
iciOus and the degraded For any useful 0
urpOse the present Democratic organiza- =
on is pOwerless. 1t repels rather than at G
'acts popular sympathy. 1t appeals only i
} name which has become an empty i
ord to memories which recall the divisions u
I'd Tesentments of bitter past; to preiu- /.
ices and passions which are the legacy of "
4 era OF strife and blood; to issues which "
ave been settled, and to controversies q
hich are closed. ii
The Liberal party turns from the past to s.
Re future; it seeks to heal the wounds
bich years Of sectional hate and angry -
)ntiict have inflicted on the country; It
llves to release the people from the gall
tettprP of marty ry-raDDr ar1 70 o..