Louisiana capitolian., 1880-06-03
FOR PRESIDENT,
w, s, HANCOCK,
orr Pennsylvania.
LOUIsIANIANs, READ THIS!
LET Us HAVE PEACE-BAlONETS AMI
GRAPE FOR THE SOuTH-THE
REPUBLICAN PROGRAMME
FOR 1880.

EIlBL1NAN INv'hN""'
FOR 1880. ,...
The following letter and accOmpa-
nyipg documents, which are i'll our
possession together with blank forms,
rolls, ETC.. will show how much rcii-
ance can be placed OH the words OF
Cancellation uttered by U. $. Grant,
during his late visit to the South,
when her citizens were dipped into pay
ing him llonors and treating him to
banquets and feasts.
Let those of our people, who arc
about to be scducedby false hopesre
these documents and say whether
Southern men can afford to give their
support to the Republican nominees
of the Chicago Convention.
Republican success means the over
throw of the Republic and the oppres-
sion of the Southern States.
1t bellooves all those who loye the
government of the Constitution and q
Union of co-equal States, to meet the
issue in serried ranks to defeat, at the
ballot box, the conspirators against
the liberties of the American people :
PoRr ALLEN, WEST BATON ROUGE, !
May %, 1880. !
Gen. Leon Jastrcmski, Baton Rouge
Dear Sir-1 enclose you q few docu-
ments and circulars transmitted to me
through the Post Office, which may
prove of Use to you in showing what
the "Boys in Blue" arc doing. In send
ing these documents to me, they have
evidently mistaken the man, as |
served too long wearing ofthe Gray
ever to desert my colors.
Yours, etc., G. J. BARROW.
THE UNION VETERANS UNION,
Boys IN BLUE,) HEADQUARTERS UNION
VETERANS NATIONAL COMMITTEE,
0s76-lSS0.)
No. 1l5 Broadway, p. 0. Box 9O6, New
York
Gen. U. S. Grant, Chairman.
Col Drake DcKay, Secretary.
Gcn. +. Il. Spinner, Treasurer.
Comrdde The events connected
with the Presidential election OF 1876
and the present attitude Of the Demo
cratic party show the necessity of a
thorough working organization of the
Veterans of the Union, to insure by
their influence as well as their votes,
IN the approaching Presi sidential cam
paign, the preservation of what was
gained for humanity by their sacr-
fees in l66l-lS65.
This Committee desires that clubs
of the "Union Veterans Union" shall
be formed in every village, town and
ward in the United States i'll which its
clubs or kindred organizations arc not
already i'll active existence, even in
localities where there are only suffi-
cicnt veteran soldiers or sailors to Off
Ger the clubs. Where clubs of same
nature, but under different names, ex-
ist, they are invited to cooperate with
the Union.
The Committee wishes that action
should be so taken Immediately i'll Or
der that the clubs should be in good
discipline and working order, and
prepared for the coming struggle, and
also that the distribution of important
documents and the dissemination of
political knowledge may be, through
them, at once commenced and contin-
ued during the months prior to the
time at which the Republican National
State and County Committees arc pre-
pared for active work.
With this view the Committee calls
upon you, Comratle, to re-enlist in
the Army of the Boys i'll Blue, and
take an active part i'll the coming
campaign, whicI, is certain to end in
u glorious victory-a victory which
will finally convince the enemy that
what armed treason and copperhead
ism failed to do in the war, "solid
South" with the cooperation of their
allies in the North, canrOt accomplish
with that ballot which Republican
gave to those who at
to destroy tho Union and
human oppression.
The Committee asks you, on receipt
of this, to call together q few of the
most active and influential Republi-
cans in your town, district or ward,
who served in the army or navy, and
organize q club in general harmony
with the bylaws which arc herein
enclosed. These bylaws have been
for your convenience IA
copy to be pasted in front Of record
book), and can be altered or amended
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