New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1878-10-05
To the Republicans of Louisiana.

The committee to which was referred
the duty of reporting for publication the
causes attending the adjournment of the
Republican State Convention on Monday,
the 18th instant, respectfully report: That
the State Central Executive Committee,
feeling the responsibility resting upon
them as the sole representatives of the
Republican party, deemed it their duty to
summon convention of the party, to as
semble in the city of New Orleans, to give
expression to the principles and purposes
of the party, as applicable to the conduct
of the present political campaign. That
ample notice of this call was given and
responded to from the parishes; that every
| indigutiOn has been manifested Of the zeal
and interest of the Republicans in the re-
organization of the party, and in the I'M
abated determination to sustain its prin-
ciples. That on the approach of the day
fixed for the assembly of the Convention,
fatal epidemic, unprecedented in its ma
Lightly, sparing neither age nor infancy,
made its appearance in the city of New
Orleans and throughout this and adjacent
States of the Mississippi Valley That in
consequence of the indescriminate restric-
ton upon travel and the dispensation with
which terrified people have been affected,
the means of travel by steamboat and rail-
road have been generally interrupted and
quarantine established at every railway
station and river landing prohibiting the
landing of passengers, but not the delivery
of goods. That this quarantine is en-
forced by mounted patrols and by armed
committees who threaten, with deadly
weapons, any person who may attempt to
violate their regulations. The Republi-
cans in all the parishes upon the Missis-
sippi, Red and Ouaehita rivers have found
it impossible to find transportation to the
city Of New Orleans, and were not pre-
pared to incur the expenses of visit of
several days to the city with an exclusion
for ten or more days from returning to
their homes. Your committee found a
general purpose on the part of the Repub-
licans to send delegates or appoint proxies
to the Convention. Almost all the parishes
had appointed q sufficient number Of re-
representatives. to have formed a quorum
of the convention but for the signal Ca
lamnity which has arrested the entire
business and commercial intercourse and
correspondence of the country. Under
those circumstances, the Republican State
Central Executive Committee deem it q
duty to assign the causes why quorum
Of the Republican State Convention did
| not assemble.
In yielding to the necessity which
has so deeply disappointed the whole Re-
publican party Of Louisian, the State Gem
trail Executive Committee has deemed it a
duty TO take provisional charge of the
conduct of the campaign, subject TO the
call Of thu convention by the State Central
Executive Committee, which the Republi-
can party is assured will be done with the
earliest abatement Of the pestilence, and
that all acts and measures proposed by
the State Central Executive Committee
viii be held subject to the approval Of the
Republican party Of Louisiana in conven-
ton 10 assemble.
Respectfully submitted,
WIZ. N. BURWELL,
]. HENRI BURCH,
". r. FISH,
HENRY DEMAs,
RICHARD sIMMS,
JAS LEWIS,
d. MARKS.
oniciaI: A. DUM0NT,
President Republican State Genital Ez-
scutive Committee.
Attest:
Wa. Tr0KRs,
Secretary Republican Stata Goatai H.
ecuiiFo Committed