The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-01-05
SUGGESTIONS FOR TIE CONVENTION.

OUUQE0 A1VNS EVn me CVNv ENllVN.
The following letter which was written fol
the consideration and at the request of q
number of gentlemen, most of whom we're
delegates to the Convention, contains some
very excellent suggestions and We take pleas
ure in publishing it The members of the
Convention will be amply repaid by perusine
this letter, as it will probably set before them
in q clearer light their opportunities and
their duties:
New ORLEANS, Dec 30, 1875.
Conference.-The importance of having the
action of the January Convention harmonious
and their recommendations thoroughly di.
gested, calls for just such previous discus.
sion as you suggest.
As am unable to meet you as you request.
ed this evening, avail myself Of your polite
invitation to offer few points for your con-
alteration.
To my mind, the one great object and pur-
pose OF the convention-that, indeed, which
includes and absorbs all others. is the stead.
fast maintenance of our struggle for State
integrity against the unconstitutional en-
croachments of the Grant Administration.
Specifically, !. To repudiate as false in
low 0AU RoAAASAOAS Ala PAAASAPAO eAO PuoAsAoAA
that the organization OF q State Government,
can, under any circumstances, be under the
supervision OF the National power or that
the life of State, or the recorded voice of
its people, could ever be made the subject of
barter and adjustment by Congressional com.
mlttees or party caucuses
firm and manly appeal should be
made to Congress to interpose the right
arm of its power, to check the encroachments
OF Presidential ambition upon the rights of
States, and to wipe out the foul blot upon
the National escutcheon of q spurious Gov
eminent forced upon the State oy Federal
pc wer, in defiance of the recorded votes of
the people at that very time in the possession
of Congress
Public liberty can only be maintained by
swift resistance to the entertainments Of
power, and quick retribution upon the I'M
faithful servant by whose connivance or direct
action the liberties Of a people are imperiled.
Il is through ecquiesence 10, or Indifference
to these encroachments. that many OF our
citizens have come to look with stolid calm
ness upon the jeopardy. of their most sacred
political rights, and consent, by silence, to
the destruction of the very life of the State.
Agitation against wroHg, resistance to illegal
force, and rigid accountability to the peo-
pie on the part OF public officers. are polite i
anxioms in which our Republic had birth,
and have always claimed the support of the
Democratic party.
3. A warm endorsement of the policy in
dicated by the party caucus in Washington
1t the opening of the present Congress, and
ably foreshadowed by Its chairman, Mr. La.
mar.
4. A square pledge of the party to reduc-
ion of the expenses of the State government;
pafno fra l,o1~ -
ng vassalage in which this city government
aas been held by the State, and which has
made the city .nkrupt, imperiled the liber-
les of the State and upheld an usurper in de-
lance of law and the will of the people; fair
md economical assessment, State and paro-
'hial, reduction of taxation; an honest dis
oursement of the public funds; non-partisan
judiciary, and an equal, but separate distri-
,ution of the school fund, coupled with
borough reform and retrenchment in the ad-
ninistration of the School Boards, State and
,arochial.
5. A denun citation of the infamies of the
Returning Board, by which five partisans,
With powers far beyond those given by the
to the highest judiciary, are
INSTITUTED tor the whole people of the State,
nd whose fiat strikes aside their declared
dice in its most solemn act of sovereignty,
y tAO OoAAoG OoAs "A VI Iu0 WuOl0
of the election laws, framed for |
raud and conceived for the perpetuation in |
ower Of a ring OF political Adventures.
6. An exposure of the late census as H. |
egally compiled and false in fact, and fraud |
lent in its political results, and calling on |
be Legislature to appoint at its first session, |
committee OF inquiry thereon, before any |
pportionment is made hereunder
These, my dear sirs, are some of the many |
oints that occur Is important. Others will |
oubtless contribute more able and clearly |
efined suggestions.
1t might not be inopportune, in this Gen.
,nnial year, that Louisiana-in her gloom
nd disg race-should raise her voice again,
supplication to her sister. States of the
MON. We might beg them to place the
held of their unimpaired powers before her
zee, that the crown of her liberties be not
rested from her. We might remind them
lat the cross she bears today in the pres
ice of the hooting emissaries and repre-
ntatives of the Radical Administration, is (.
orn in q struggle that alone can work out
leir political salvation We might warn
ZEN that manacled Louisiana at the Centen-
al Banquet would not harmonic with the
'irit of that celebration, nor the memories
ere invoked; nor would she afford pleas
It illustration OF the happy effects OF Ma 6
onal power in the domestic affairs OF q {
ate /! II
At all events, I close with the suggestion,
ID am most truly yours, Ii
JAMES L1NGAN t