The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-22
TO THE CONVENTION.

Gentlemen and Fellow Citizens:
You are assembled together to perform the
most important work that can be imposed on
the citizen OF free and Independent State-the
framing OF the organic law of the people.
You are OF the people; you come together
directly from the people. and your work is to
be for the people. You will not take 1t amiss
then II you are addressed and reminded by an
humble one OF the people.
l. Remember that the great question OF public
fnance-or so-called public debts not a
question OF naked law. as will be commended for
by most Of the legal profession. but that 1t Ia
one OF pure politics. This Is an irrefutabe
axiom and the moment YOU permit the sophist
TO create a doubt OF 1t In your minds. that mo-
ment your usefulness ID impaired or ami
Inflated.
a. Remember. that to place Warmoth-the en-
bodiment OF forcible usurpation and public
profiigacy-in power. in 1868, the greater por-
ton of the white race. comprehending the over
whelming proportion If the property Of the
State was ruthlesslu Acknowledgement by an
edict of the people Of Louisiana but by an
edict OF the general government at Washington
a po,Uer that nerer did hare and 1teper can have
nc eoner r e % the rsh q a
IN the case OF citizens OF the sovereign States of
this Union.
II,
proficiency I'D public robbery was Instituted.
which found the ople Of Loul, ina worse of.
pecuniaiir. than when the war " deh and which
Of bonds, warrants. etc. the extent OF which
1. Remember that amid this eaturnala OF
infamy and profiipacy, the voice Of the op-
pressed people OF this State was always and ev-
erywhere heard denouncing and damning the
to the world that they would not be bound long
or by any OF Its acts than they were forced to
live under It,
s. Remember the heroic struggle made by us
to elect McEnery Govern r of the State. and re-
member that We did succeed
9. Remember. tina! In spite of our success IN
electing Democratic e. vernment, midnight
order was issued by an iufamons United States
Judge. under the influence Of brandy and in
tive halls Of the State were seized By United
States soldiers with fixed bayonets. and that the
Infamous Kellogg was Installed and kept In
Rubernatortal power BY the same bayOnets.
~. Remember that the pe. pie Of this State. In
the most formal manner. here and BY commit
Of Koss as ey iad on hat 81
and that they never did yield one jot or little Of
their denunciation and opposition while Kel-
g; Remember that. so odious and oppressive
did Kellogg become, on the fourteenth OF Sep
tember, 1874 the people rose In arms and
Q. Remember. that IN his efforts to retain his
usauped po,ner tbs representative Of the oppres
so''s OF Jree!nen shot our people to death on the
10. Remember that Notwithstanding we had
thus demonstrated to the world that the Kellogg
people, and that 1t could not maintain itself
here one hour through the power Of the peo-
pie, the cover. n. at Ct Washington again lendS
II. Remember hat Kellogg, finding that War
moth had left him nothing to steal through
taxation. devised the infamous plan OF mixing
up In one mass The legitimate and spurious
claims against the State and sealing" the !
whole at the rate Of sixty cents in the dollar.
pnr,a hart a ar RI ov,I, !, A. t.,
infamy he and his Legislature put the matter
before the people at the polls In the form of a
so-called contract by constitutional amend
ment.
amendment. and that the only existing evidence
turning Board board that reversed the real
vote OF the people at the same time for Treas
urer and Legislators. and that has been since fla
rupt set of men ever organized officially for
political purposes. TO put 1t In another, form.
that the people never lev Voted the constitutional
amendment was that Kellogg desired them to
do So and that Mad. Wells officially said they
:, H. Remember that in the process Of funding
the debt by the Funding Board provided for
NY this constitutional amendment. certainly.
that utterly illegal bonds las those of Ludelin&s
railroad) were funded. and that this was even
contrary to the mandate Of the so-called consti-
sutional amendment.
Y. IT, Remember that In funding the debt under
the so-called law, no record has been kept OF
the nature OF exchanges of bonds so that the
holders of the new bonds declare 1t is not pos
sible to identify and def me the transaction
existence.
ls; Remember that the highest duty which
such high public functi onaries owed the state
rate record as to have made 1t the easiest mat
yer 70 trGce every exchange, and that the failure
their official action.
And now remember that fraud vitiates all con- J