The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-09-17
an EARNEST APPEAL.
To tho People Of Louisiana:

Once again you are called upon to rescu,
your State from the Rraep of law lessne 81
and corruption in which she has been ruth
lessly held for eight long years.
The party in power in Louisiana Gala it.
self Republican, not because it ia identified
with the hone st masses of the Republican
party OF the North, but n order to obtain
the countenance and support of that party.
1t is we'll known that the publican
party of Louisiana is "a mere league with
out political principles-an organization
not resting for support upon any consider
able portion of this State. 1t is and has
been wholly Indifferent to the legitimate
purposes of government. 1t has never, in
. single instance, made an honest effort to
enforce the laws or to afford protection to
life and property. 1t exists only by strife
and plumber, it provokes disorders and fos-
tiers crimes.
1t is, In fact, a taxing and filching ma
chine manipulated and run 10y the Custom
House with military aid, and known to the
people of Louisiana by its outrages against
law and constitutional government, by it's
tyrannical expressions and its hideous cor
ruption.
Installed in power by a Presidential
edict, and the army of our common country
under the superinterdence of the United
States Marshal, it cannot perpetuste itself
save by an appeal to force, and now ut the
threshold of this great political campaign
the President of the United States directs
the General of the Army to dispose the ma
tional forces, az if in actual war, for it's
support. This is the last act in the dark
Jugglery for power, and will not avail.
And throwing Off all Disguise, s. B. Pack
ard, the United States Marshal himself, the
most colossal figure of infamy that stands
out in the revolving history of Southern
oppression and misrule, steps forth as the
candidate for the Governorship against
you.
In him you recognize the arch author of
yolr woes, the tyrant who seized your
State House at midnight with a company
CT Federal soldiers, who scattered and
eerved blank warrants throughout Louisi
ana, arrested and dragged from their homes
the peaceful and law abiding citizens of
your State, and whose Office was shown to
be by recent congressional committee of
investigation tinged with corrupt and ty-
Eannical practices.
Against this unhoy league are arrayed
as never before the people of Louisiana,
white and colored, who yearn for good gov
eminent under the banner of the Democra-
'Ic and Conservative party.
After eight years of suffering, of grind
ing 'axation and legalized robbery, they
have come to realize that their only hope
of escape from the terrible evils that beset
them is in union of the two races for the
common good.
That union lie now complete. Under Pro-
whence, the redemption of Louisiana will
be the joint and glorious work of her sons,
white and colored, and they will enjoy to-
gether the great fruits of victory.
They will share alike the blessings of a
firm, economical and just administration of
the laws; thorough and complete reform
nj existing abuses; the establishment of
benefcient and complete system of free |
schools, with equal advantages of educa-
ton to white and black an able and up |
fight judiciary {; aud, above all, that con
cord, confidence aud pesperity which have
bNnxS-~ Low v,;ol,x
-s:te shameless governments that have been
forced upon US. The government we pro
pose to install will be alike lust to all
classes, protective of all interests, and
equal in it's burdens rs in it's benefits" The
colored people need fear no discriminating
legislation, no interference with their rights
and privileges, as guaranteed by the CON
Stitution and the Jaws.
In oCr Chief Executive, Francis T.
Nichols, you will have a firm, Just and
pure man, called by the voice of an entire
people from the retirement of private life,
unsolicited, to assume the grave functions
of q public office; he will not buck ster the
executive patronage; he will exact a stern
and faithful execution of the laws, and will
not interpOse the executive influence to
avert their just penalties. In the name of
the whole people of Louisiana, we call upon
you to go forward with the good work so
Sospiciously begun, to preserve the peace at
all hazards, and not by the slightest act of
violence feed the outrage mill being run at
the North. Upon every citizen rests a
grave responsibility, solemn duty, and he
who shrinks from it in this hour of peril to
the State is guilty of great moral misde-
ueanor. This is not merely q political
struggle; it is a crusade against corruption
and those abuses which have wrought ruin
20 the whole country.
The standard of purity and reform is "full
high advanced" by that mighty champion
of honest and constitutional government
Samuel j. Tiiden. The patriotic Nichols
is pledged to uphold it, around it let every
man who loves his country rslly-rally for
the preservation of peace, for the supremacy
of the laws, for the reduction of taxation
for the blessings of education, and for the !
enjoyment of self- government 8
IN the Union of our fathers.
l. w. PATTON,
President Democratic Conservative State
Central Committee. :