The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1873-10-17


the people of the State of Louisiana be
and is hereby called to assemble at the
city of New Orleans, at IL NJ, on the
24th day of November next, being the
fourth Monday of said month, and the
people of all the parishes, irrespective
of party, who are opposed to the KEEL
logg usurpation, arc earnestly invited
and requested to join, and participate
in the election of delegates to said con-
Vention.
Resozved, That the purposes and OBJ
fects of said convention arc to take into
consideration the political situation In
Louisiana, to institute the necessary
measures looking to an amelioration OF
the condition of the people, to set forth
our grievances to the Congress of the
United States, and to the people of the
Union, and to petition and memorial
ize Congress for relief from the Kellogg
usurpation established over us alone by
Federal power without reference to and
in defiance of the will OF the people as
expressed through their ballots.
Resolved, That the Sd day OF Novem-
her (flrst Monday be and is hereby
appointed as the time for the election
of delegates throughout the State to
said convention.
.Resozoeel, That each ward of the city
of New Orleans and parish of the State
shall be entitled to double the number
of votes in said convention which 1T
has in the House of Representatives;
but the country parishes may elect as
many delegates to cast said votes as
they shall see fit.
RESOLVED, That all papers in the State
opposed to the Kellogg usurpation be
and arc hereby requested to publish
these resolutions and tho accompanying
address.
A true copy: JOSEPH COLLINS,
Secretary.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. IL, 1873.
Fello,o- Citizens Of Louisiana:
The Committee Of Seventy has called
a mass convention to assemble in this
city Oh the 4th Monday Of November
next.
The time is fast approaching when
the cause of the people of this State
will again be presented to Congress for
final adjustment and settlement, and
your committee, moved by profound
convictions looking to the we'll being
of the entire people of this common
wealth, have concluded that II conven-
ton Of the people of the STATIC would
be tho most acceptible medium for an
appropriate presentation to the Congress
of the nation of tho alarming and I'M
precetlened Outrages committed against
the rights and liberties of tho people of
this State, by which a Government
never elected by their suffrage has been
set up and established by fraud and
force over them.
Elect to this convention your tried,
truest and ablcst men, and let us make
one united and combined effort to res
cue our State from the grasp of tho
spectators and usurpers.
Let us make Mt least one last grand
effort to arouse tho Congress of the
Union, and the people thereof, to Il full
appreciation of the means and methods
employed under Federal auspices, that
throttled the State Government of
Louisiana.
We owe this much to ourselves, and
to those to como after us.
We desire to present the question,
fairly and squarely, to tho Congress,
and to all the people of this Amer lean
Union, whether or not it is permissible
under our form of Government, for an
inferior United States Judge, supported
by United States soldiers and tho Chief
Executive of the Nation, without refer
cnce to and in defiance of the will of the |
people rs expressed by the ballot, to
pull down one State Government and
set up another in its stead.
Should Congress repudiate such rep
rehensible practices, we merely will
obtain our rights; on the other hand,
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