The Ouachita telegraph., 1877-09-28
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.

ouSA tuSu RkC00uS Gu0AAA W tAA0 100
ture for approval, and If sanctioned, /,
for the General Assembly to submit
them to the people for adoption. This
suggestion, In my estimation, is emf
nently wise and ttmely.-COsvespon ponCsent
Aissd1en Democrat. 8't'.5
We think the object of those who
propose the plan abOve stated is plainly
Giiscernible. AS to the plan, it Is un-
tdemoCratic, as totally impracticable as
any we have yet heard of. AS to the
motives which actuated It's proposal ,
they are apparent. ...l
- For long time many really good
aud we'll meaning men In Louisiana
thought, and for that matter still think
that we should SO trim. our conduct In
this State rs to win at least the silence
Of the Northern Radical. The States
of the South that had the prepOndera-
longer underRadical bondage and when
out will be NO longer reaching honest
government and prosperity. v
~ Let any person In every day life so
: conduct his private affairs as to satisfy
the complaints of Tom, Dick and Harry
and not with the view of honestly sup
porting and providing for his family
and he will certainly fail, both In
appeasing the Toms and Dicks aud in
feeding and clothing his household.
Now these men object to y constitu-
tiOnal convention simply because our
motives might be misconstrued by the
Republicans Of the. North, and as long
rs we continue thus In leading strings,
thus shufiaing about In order to temper
and time ourselves to the capriciOus-
ness of the knaves Of that party, just
SO long will there be murInurs and COM
plants at home.
The constitution affects Louisiana
alone, and her people are made or un-
made by it. Then what is the use OF
this eternal truchle to what the North
says" or any one else outside the State
for that matter?
We favor u constitutional convention
because there can be no such thing as
reform, economy and good government
hoped for in this State until we have
an honest constitution. As well might
We expect figs to grow on thistles.
Let the country press cease not in
their efforts to bring about this cOnven-
tion. IT we fail with the present Legis-
lature we will elect one in 1873 which
will truly represent public sentiment.
-Nutchitoches Vindicntor.
We copy from the Mansfield Re-
porter, upon the same subject, the two
paragraphs following '.
Parties who are privately opposed
to q State Constitutional convention
and yet dare not avow 1t, don't find
anything good In the new constitution
of Georgia. The same parties will evil
IDENTIFY favor postponement of q con-
stttutional convention In louisiana,
because they are we'll provided with
fat places under the old, and they can
not say how it would be- under the new.
They howied and growied themselves
into warm Radical places, but now be-
come extremely conservative and think
1t rather dangerous to tamper with an
instrument which provides such rare
naoyceaus in the way of salaries for its
officers.
The few Journals of the State who
favor u postponement of State con.
stitutional convention to some indeti-
mite time for prudential reasons, may
be regarded rs belonging to that class
who would never call a convention as
long as their friends or themselves
have good fat positions under the enor-
NOUS salaries saddled upon us by the
collar OF Radicalism. 1t would be far
more manly to openly oppose it on
the broad ground that the carpet-b bag
concern under which we live was good
enough for Louisiana, than to skulk
behind timOrOus fears, and hawk up
political or partisan reasons for advocat-
ing u pOstpOnement. The argument OF
expense Is simply u rope of sand, for
more will be saved to the State In one
year than the whole cost of IL conven-
tion.