The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1874-12-16
PLATFORM or THE CRESCENT CITY WHITE
-lls t,f !bEAGuE or NF,E ORLEANS. >

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~ i,h LEAGUE or NET ORLEANS. ,
The Crescent City Democratic Club 81
1863, having changed it's name to that OF
"Crescent City White League" has
thought that an .ek planation was due alike
to its retired members and to the people OF
New Orleans of the motives of a change SC
seriously and 50 sadly suggestive.
It, may DO stated that the elements OF
personal character and of general purpose
, in the club have. undergone, no change
since it's origin. Our members, with but
: few losses or accessions, are the same rs
j for many years past, and we feel ourselv es
animated as ever by tile same earnest de-
+cyminatien to strive in the task of practi-
cal politics to establish and maintain such
government in the State and city as shall
guard the liberties of the citizen, bis bus
mess, aud the aocumu lations Of his in
a dustry. II go. ...-..l ..~.. e.
> Our, fellow citizens will permit us to re-
call with a, just pride our strenuous and
persistent efforts in this behalf, though
they have again and again been FRUSTRATED
( by the fatal intrusion of o high hand
whose Violence was stronger than our
rights. All our struggles had been ihither-
70 conducted under the ancient banner of
Democracy, to which we shall ever look
for guidance in all national contests. Hut
we are now fast drifting to a conflict
bounded Sbylt hst aimitsnof ltfsiEtate, and
n which the men IOfi Louisiana alone must
settle, if justice and FAIR plsy'shal rule,
and net Federal violence. 1T lis "a Conflict
: not involving asingle issne upon which an
honest Republican, saan possibly differ as
such from an honestI Democrat a. conflict
? the decision of (which Ws.would confident
ily and gladly ,remit ITO the votes of the
yBry Radicals of New England nays toa6y
u body Of civilized men in the world; for it
asa conflict betweenaYi and depravity
between enlightenment land thick igno-
Eanee--between, civilization and -tarbay1
aisH--ag barbarism CRITICALLY tstimulated
aadtheld up by the perverted authority OF
' VIE most ciyilized, ation, in thsTworld !; .
siiyilization whose cry mt for, hGfp against
II threatened destraGtion, bnt. FOR more fais.
play in main tanning ITSELF, is answered
from Washington hy insults and a blow,
On this dire ,emergehcy the nattiipfnal BE-,
sasien SHgfs 5{Dsd in IL
', dream of future dolnination,n and Quarrel!
ing over present schehiss Of tinarce, has
forgotten that there is srch an outlying
province Dc Loaisia ana, Which it might res,
che FROM pefaftioas and disgrace for the
sake Of the gpoa name Of the National
COMMONWEALTH ~ r.7" 9h' f2HoIaf ,o
Need we.dfawH picture lof Our utter dies
piatiOnf Need we point on the one hand
to our devastated fields, our Wafifug cOin-
lnerce, our idle workshops. our DECREASING
populations opr increasing taxes. orir paai-
per multitndes, pensioners on. alien charir
"; and on the other hand, to the orgies
of the ignoble' w1steffes' forced upon us as
rulers by the horrible alliance between ne7,
gro ignoranoe and the cumming of WASH
mgton ihureauwaoyy rulers grown. rich
amidst general DISTRESS and reveling Id
e The, proceeds of taxes ,wyu,lg from D. gasp!
ing people, rulers painfully maintained hy
national bayOnets in positions reeking with
dsihopsrand felony, and from which there
would need be hut onB Mild hour of unre-
stsaiued anger to lfurl them ofever' '
Need I'VE repeat the, >oldstory of brutal
{ Violence stalking at midnight in the drag
gied shrousl of judicial autforitx-and uns
der the shadow Of the Federal poWer, en-
SsnEoiiing an execTgble oligarchy Of the
most ignorant and profiigate negroes lea
suoawlsliRfhe most dangerous class of re-
facie!ls whites. the very scum ofsoeietS ,,
AnerIca has wrung with the echo OF these
WI, wthohss' md we he We heard even those
who have made 1T asystem II Hate us
,asseshssE'vsie@a IN; dem notation of the
Fssnsyngaloerssand yet not a hand hasbeen
ai Ms1. g delIges pss Front thsif6 Rrssions.
Win cur hands on our hearts and ap-
psahas 70 GsdIws and tbs Whole white
peoPs q. Louisiana can declare that we
s,e 10 no way responsible for the intolera-
t n,e evils ~ Of misgovernment under which
tue tue state is perishing. From the time
i Iaa. she right of suffrage was, as we be-
+ .a", and as wo still believe, accorded
~ o hastily to a race N the infancy of free
AIM Su.i, we firmly resolved that it was our
So. ana 2 wise expediency, to accept the
fk ,,m OF the reconstruction laws in their
ara. soope. we endeatored at once to adj
"e'' ourselves TO tic intelligence of the