Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1879-09-27
ADDRESS.
TO THE DEMOCRATIC AND CONsER-
VATIVE PEOPLE OF THE STATE
OF LOUISIANA.

leans the GOVernOrShp Ut the State dur
ing the ensuing four years. Gratified at
this concession, the first of it's kind in
the last half cen fury of the States histO-
~, very large portion IF the Democrats
and Conservatives of New Orleans have
determined to pre- sent to the State Con-
ventiOn. tor the high office of Governor,
the name of its most honoYed, most illus
trions, and hest beloved citizen.
Aware of the fact that the people of
the country parishes usually regard city
politicians with distrust, and the politics
of cities as cnrrnpt-which is too often
the trutn-the Democracy of New Or
leans have resolved to present a pame
untarnished by a suspicion; a name of
spotless purity, and which shines by 10
borrowed lignr.
Aware of the fact that in our own
midst divisions, jealousies aid suspicious
divide and distract our people, we have
resolved to present q name which VIII
heal every lewiston, inspire perfect con-
tidence and unite the good people of the
State as one man on the side of law and
order, and IN the cause Of honest and
economical government.
The name which we thus present is
that of General Frederick Nash Ogden
At the mere mention of that name, what
stirring and heroic memories throng the
mind OF every true son and daughter Of
Louisinaa!
A soldier, he battied for the South
with matchless courage through four
years of ar, rising from the rank Of pri
waite to the position of colonel command
ing a brigade. From 1872 to 1876 he
ste cd by the side OF Gov. John McEnery
and D. i. Penn, and held up their -atri-
otto hands in all that memorable and i'm
mortal struggle for the right of self gov
eminent. In this cause, in 1873, Gen.
Ogden was wounded in the night attack
| upon Jackson Square. In 1874, while
some mel who now seek to be your lead
ers We're comfortably installed in Offices
and held commissions issued and signed
by the usurper Pinchback, or were open
ly in the Republican camp, Gen. Ogden
quietly organized the companies of his
immortal Crescent City White League.
And when the burden cast upon our peo-
pie became too heavy to be borne longer,
THEN OSeen drew his sword, and in one
brief day the usurpatiOn was broken in
pieces and lay in ruins at his feet. And
though its fragments were gathered up
and skewered together by Federal bayo-
uets, yet Ogden's victory over it demon
strared its utter weakness, and it never
recovered from the deathbIow which he
gave it; and the story of Louisiana's
wrongs, which often told in words and
written ink, had attracted but little SYM
pathy or investigation, thus written in
| the blood of Ogden's soldiers Oh the dust
of the Levee, caused thorough investi-
CATION into the horror of Radical rule in
the South, and the result was that the
people of the Union elected for the first
time in fourteen years Il Democratic
House of Representatives., and but little
over two years from the day of Ogden's
blow, carpet baggery and Radicalism in
the South bad passed away.
In January, 1877, when the emergency
of the conflict between the rival Govern
ments of Nichols and Packard demand
ed leader, all eyes Turned again to Or
den. He came with his matchless cour-
age and his matchless legions. His was
the cool counsel. the undaunted bearing,
the self-posseSsed courage that inspired
hope and confidence. And when the cri
sis had passed, and this hero saw the
chosen Governor safely in power, he sim
ply said "Governer you now need us as
bye and beg only to say that if danger
ever threatens our beloved State and you
need us, you have but to call" And
then he retired to his place of business,
as if unconscious of his immortal services.
When the death-angel of Pestilence how
cred above our homes and "mourners
W ere going about the Streets" tn IN again
came this hero and during all the dark
days of death and desolatiOn he moved a
minister of mercy and love from home to
home, visiting alike the lowly and the
proud, the rich and The poor, minister
ing to the sick, assauging the agony of
the dying. and wiping away the tears of
the heart-broken.
Such a man is Fred. N. Ogden-a hero
in war philanthropist and Christian in
peace; a good citizen at all times.
In politics he is and has ever been a
Democrat. There is no period of his his
tory when hiss political views were in
doubt. He has never abandoned prin-
ciple for policy. He has never temper
| lied with bad men Or corrupt parties.
He is under political pledges and obliga-
tons to no man, nor will he ever be. He
| and those who support his candidacy
! have made no combinations, nor will they
enter into any alliances. He and. those
who support his candidacy have prom
ised no official favors conditioned upon
! his accession to the Governorship. The
corrupt politician can make no overtures
to him and the demagogue cannot ap-
proach him. Under Gen. Ogden's ad-
ministration tie life, the liberty and
for he will govern the State in justice
and tirmness.
A merchant of this city, his mind is
keenly alive to the wants and necessities
of onr suffering commerce, and his clear
brain and firm hand will suggest and ap-
ply the needy remedy.
Fellow citizens, we are entering upon
a new era both in politics and in business.
Splendid improvements at the mouth of
our mighty river give free ingress and
eoress to our vast commerce; and before
the swelling bud shall Al nounco the COM
ing of another spring, our railroads will
! be complete INTO the very heart of that
vast empire State of the South, Texas
Soon will New Orleans and the whole
State awake from their slumber and take
giant steps forward in the road to wealth
| and power
The horrible nightmare of Radical.
| carUet-ba ru le ia ended now consti-