The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-11-15

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the world ever saw" The American
people are to determine by their bal
lots on Tuesday next, whether that
form Of government shall continue
and whether it's rulers shall be pledg.
ed to secure the perpetuity Of the old
and revered principles which distin-
guished it's career for eighty-four
years. There may result from an eff
fort to defeat their will fairly ex-
pressed, another revolution mightier
in its details, more fearful in its DIES,
truction of life and equally as impor
tant in it's issue as the other one one
hundred years ago.
We in Louisiana have our right to
live in the land of our fathers and be
buried by their sides under the green
turf Of her soil; our property, our
freedom Of thought and the security
of our lives at stake. One end of the
balance has in it all that we hold
dear, all that we reverence as sacred
home for ourselves and families
and an honored name for our poster
ity. The question to be decided is
shall that end 60 up or down. Our
cause is sacred and just one and we
are battling with q corrupt and I'M
scrupulous foe. We have right to
expect that every white man, at
least, shall work for that cause with
all his might and main and that all
the thinking colored men shall vote
for it on the day of election.
The most unfit man on our ticket
is immeasurably superior to the best
upon the mongrel, ignorant and cor
rupt radical ticket, and it should be
borne in mind that every vote lost to
any man on our ticket is vote gain
ed for some one on the radical ticket.
Whoever scratches a name off our
ticket, whether or not he substitutes
the name of his opponent, in fact
votes for the election of the radical
and by just so much does he help the
radical cause. We say then to all
those who have their own interests
and the interest of the country at
heart, vote our straight ticket from
top to bottom! Vote it like a man
open and above board! Vote it
against a friend and for an enemy!
Remember that ours is the ticket of
the people, that it is supported by
the same people who have all along
been fighting just this same old rad
lcal crew of harpies and thieves and
that it is opposed by the same John
Delays, Kelsos, and the other plum
derers who have grown fat on the
spoils Of office and insolent with all
their venality. They are greedy for
another lease Of power and they can
only get it by Indifference and apa-
thy on our part. If we show a solid
front at the polls and do our duty as
becomes the Importance Of the issue,
the victory will be ours. Men of
Rapides, the matter is in your hands!
Tue sun ofTuesday next viii set up
on our success or failure. 1t is for
You to say which it shall be?
We say these last words with the
acquittal of our conscience of any
neglect of, or Of failure to do our
whole duty for the cause which has
our heart and hopes and to the peo-
pie for whom it has been our priv
lege to fight and among whom it is
our pride to live. We have fought
their battle with all the ardor that
love for them could inspire and with
out counting the cost. Such good as
was in our opinion we have done
them. We ask therefor no other re.
ward than the approval of our con-
science and their confirmed conf
dence. We sincerely pray that we
may together rejoice over grand