The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-09-01
A VOICE FROM THE PEOPLE.
NEW ORLEANS, August 20. 49,

New ORLEANS, August -, 1874.
Editor New Orleans Bulletin
Dear Sri have just arrived from the
country and am grati6ed to find the names O
our well-selectcd candidates and stauncl
platform, in ertenso at your masthead, anG
hope you will faunt them until the accom-
plishment of our assured victory.
The acts of the last Legislature have re-
ceived little circulation in the city-and then
only through purchase from few favored
booksellers-and in the country none what
company, Of what parishes the Sixth Con
gressional District consisted, and they could
not say. In the country there is less facility
for information. l would respectfully suggest
that you publish the act Of Dist March, 1874
fdistricting the State), and the names of our
candidates, as you have done and, pc, contra,
those of our opponents, whom We must and
will defeat That the manner in which the
State was improperly divided was only one of
political manipulation, is admitted by the
most ardent Radicals but of this anon
In the Sixth District we have in Hon Jo-
seph n. Moore a candidate who is appreci-
ated and beloved at home and in Avoyelles;
and stretching across the river to the most
eastern portion of the Florida parishes into a
territory whose people nre as unlike in char
acter to his own, as the soil and its cultivation
are different He will WELD that strong intu-
ence which is commanded by education and
experience, by his power in simple, forcible,
graceful speech, and by free, courteous, social
intercourse, and which must carry conviction
Of his integrity, ability and resolved useful
the whole country
| have been glad to read your support of my
old friends, Hon. Vim. NJ. Levy and Gen. r.
l.. Gibson, and your commentator Of Mr.
Moore, who the Republican, of the 9th, init
mates lis not too old to make his mark if he
has a chance" He will have it-and be tri-
umphant!
In another article, Mr. Moore is slurred as
s'unknown," and the Hon. w. B. Spencer is
hung st as relative OF the celebrated Lewis
and VIC may proudly assert it without ostenta-
ton, We can honor the more Mr. Spencer for
relationship to a man whom his compeers, our
people and the world have pronounced to have
betn one Of our greatest, purest and most
revered statesmen. Mr.. Moore has as noble
ancestry, maternal and paternal. as any one in
the land. Upon this his friends place no use
less emphasis but put their confidence in his
sterling ;ndiridual qualifications. He was a
graduate, many years ago, Of Jefferson Col
lege, in Western Pennsylvania, near Pittsburg,
and then exhibited such close study and ac-
cumen in debate as to far outstrip his fellow
scholars, many Of whom have since held sway
in our Congressional halls and highest judicial
forums
If we ale not mistaken, Mr.. Moore was
junction" Of the Bayou Fusillier with the
Teche. and was the son Of Mr.. William Moore,
An educated gentlemen and sold time"
planter, the brother of the late Hon. John
Moore, for many years distinguished jurist
and Congressman After his college gradua-
ton with high rank, Mr.. Moore returned
home completed his legal studies and for
some time successfully practiced in New
Iberia. Thereafter he removed to Opelousas
and in partnership with the late lamented
Caleb l.. Swayze, afterwards with Mr. Morgan
present Judge, and now alone, has strictly
pursued his profession.
At secession, acknowledging, with us, para
mount fealty to the State, Mr. Moore was sent
as q Representative from st. Landry to the
Legislature that met at Opelousas and Shreve-
port; and many Of the members from the city
and the parishes will testify that he then bore
the character of a sturdy workman finished
debater-and an accomplished disintercsted
gentleman The war over he returned home,
and has quietly and energetieally devoted him
self to his professional and social duties. If
he has taken part in local politics, it was no
more than obligatory upon every good
citizen. He can despise the petty reproach of
the Republican,, that he has done so only to
be an antagonist of Mr.. Anderson, who must
respect him, as does every person who knows
him. Yours truly, W. J. NJ.