Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-10-04

The COMMITTEE OF 7O.-ThIs old and er-
pectable body, as Roundabout styles them,
through their chairman, R. H. Mari, has
issued a call for . convention of all those
opposed to Kellogg usurpation, &C., &C.,
&c, to meet in New Orleans on the 24th
day of November next, delegates to said
convention to be elected on the 3rd of the
same month, being the first Monday init
Instead of making any remarks upon the
objects of said meeting, we copy those Of
Roundabout convinced that nothing
more pengent or pointed could possible be
said either by us or any one else.
Committee Of Seventy to the
| Front.
The Anglo-saxon race is by this time
aware that our old and respectable Seventy
have concluded their summer wandetings,
and once again restore themselves to the
bosom Of an admiring community. This is
an evidence that they were not afraid OF
the yellow fever, or false to their affection
for Lorisiana--during the money-making
season. But it was not to chronicle their
virtues as individuals that Roundabout
took up his pen. The hearts feelings are
not 20 be paraded before an unsympathiz-
: ing world, and, even if they court such
, publicity, must be repressed while graver
, things are pondered. The Seventy have
called Convention, and the emotions will
De good enough to take back seats for
r awhile.
Roundabout spares his readers pcrusal
of the terms in which this Convention Is
D l Az Piapz nj t~u-ir the Second
Q Reader-"Ye know too well the story OF
e our thraldom." Let MS skip that harrow
ing but slightly thread-bare narrative, and
| boldly grasp the fact that November 3, is
:. the day appointed. 1t has been selected
n with view to the comfort of the country
e members, who about that time will be Dor.
. ed with sugar making, cotton shipping and
Q, all the other tiresome details of rural exis
t. tence and will of course be delighted to es
n cape to New Orleans and leave the whole
business TO take care of itself. Appreciat
~ ing this sentiment, and consulting, as the!
10 always have done, the interests OF thu
20 country, our far-seeing seventy provide TO
O. its qualification in the following:
!. Resolred, That each ward of the city o
New Orleans and parish of the State shal
GO be entitled to double the number Of vote
e. in said convention which it has IN tn
Vt, House of Representatives; bmsfhe comufr
se parishes may elect as wert de'esaiek sp'oa'
!, said sOtes q t1sySh@tfee%H -
" vBYry bod can come. The conventio
as a, oEya is losihSas%. and swallows i' rn
81 vI|ation. It woufdSbe unnecessarily az
might seem to imply that t&Het cfi6f
already offered He-SptkS pficienS1 Ssn
! sslyAeaahr iaAibAati6n he utterly declSp'
Af6make. He Uoks forwards to- the 2d>
nc November as manifestation Of the people
n majesty. Ruined. oppressed, thrgttisd5 Y
~ ali sshS eest oft, they will, nevertheles
=, rally to Ne tom.tQm Of liberty, andscotto
~ spgsE, sgriculsuSe wa>s.~t the devil f
sAe Bnt tlfiS,is enthusiastic There are e
his quiet, practical, unimaginative peopiS~
nd think the Sapgentioh~b business hau
y. .n ii Theyfail to seethA necessity OF nsgHeti
dad purSuits by which along they live 10 I
o. already. and ticfrr Va lot of things tt
bavAlo& even the attribute of dignity
sre- 33leir ewes. Some OF them 20 50 fN as
aw, INQUIRE who the Scvd " are, sRd1 Apwf
do authority they undertake to bear
standard of Louisiana. 1t was popular
NO supposed that the peoples case had be
to placed before Congress, solemuly, circu
s it stantially and authoritativety ;and in W
mo-. many eyes the objects q this new cow
-, ktion assume the form ofbew dering conf
the Speaking for such people, RoundaR,
who asks what fresh developments have tan
v;se place, and how important are the measu
whicifswill Compensate men for aband
w ing their business at the time when II m
east reGuires attention Is theie, anything
ave be added to the overwhelming tesoqns
which still exists and can hardly have
DO its force Are there any new advocates
ion, be chosen, who will urge our case "
in a greater eloquencSsand wisdom than tn
, i, who had it in charge last winterf And
~, kany demonstration of the people appro
:. In sinificance or majesty the spectacle
: John McEnery's inauguration last wiz
is a when he stood uncovered in Lafayt
ion SQUARE, with all New Orleans and the
J If a representatives. of all Louisiana around
the while his rival (scarce rival them G.
. be. ered in one of the back rooms of Mechan
d he Institute with corporal's guard to
wife him and another corporoPs guard to wa
ison, the entrancef
con- Be- patient, gentlemen, but these
quo people want to know what sort of an Ell
n Ia is contemplated now.
take