The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1886-07-31

to work with all tho energy of my nature
to effect this OBJECT.
l au1 firmly convinced that immediate
| sud pressing action should be taken to de-
clsre forfeited tho land grant made to the
State of Louisiana for the benefit of the
Ficksburg, Shreveport Il Texas railway
company, juno Srd, 1856, in far MS said
grant was not earned in ten years after the
passage OF said act. The terms of the net
were not complied with, neither by tho
State nor by the railroad company, and in
my opinion, it is the bounden duty as we'll
as the legal and equitable right of Congress
to restore the ,,nearned lands to the Public
Domain. After long years OF delay, many
settlers homesteaded. and improved lands
situated i'll this grant. believe that their
rights to their humble but cherished homes
should be held sacred against the world.
These homes are not very valuable, per-
haps, but they are all these settlers have
and are very dear to them and their iaini-
lies. Tho railroad should show a good title,
"a valid and strong title before il is allowed
| TO Dust these settlers from their homes.
Will any body deny this9 l am in favor OF
"equal and exact justice to alV'--and by
| this rule, firmly believe that no railroad
| in the United States has legal or equitable
title to one acre of the 10O. 600 900 acres not
| earned within the time prescribed by tho
| grants II tho reople SEQ tit to entrust tho
| assertion of their rights to mo, l pledge
| myseIfto work faithfully and zealously to
| forfeit all land grants where the grantees
| have not strictly complied with tho condi-
tions of tho grant.
IN saying this, do not wish TO be undcr-
! stood as having any prejudice against rail-
! roads. l apply to them the same rules of
law and conduct that 1 do to individuals,
! "withont foar and without alloctiun.' They
are entitled to be protected in all their
rights hut no moro. Unfortunately there
is ~ tendency on the part of large corpora
tions TO control This country--iis legisla-
ton. its business, its worry life. III my
opinion tho Two great dangers TO this Re
public arc corporate influence with its
supple minions in the lobby of Congress
and every State Legislature, and tho money
power with its nuukeys aud itlolators in all
he byNays and thoroughfares of soeety.
These evils must be fought in the interests
OF the people and they must hold up the
hands OF men who are able and willing to
honestly and unsworvingiy champion their
cause. Corporate fnHuence III Politics,
the Money Power i'll Politics, these two
giants of mischief and wrong, Cog and
Ma2og, Scylla and Charybdis, are the mon
sters that must he throttted and destroyed
before labor gets its own and the peoples
| rule shall find prosperous sway.
There arc many other important ques-
tions which vitally affect all tho people of
| this nation, such as the Tariff. Silver Coin
ago, Pensions, &c. On these and all kin
dred questions, 1 stand on tho wise and
| conservative Platform adopted by the Ma
tional Democratic Convention at Chicago
! i'll 1854. / thoroughly embrace tho spirit
! and letter of that Platform, and most es-
! pecially applaud that part of it which
! pledges the party to an economical ad-
ministration of the government. 1t is pal
| pablo that extravaganza and waste run riot
! in tho expenditures of tho Federal Govern
! mont and one OF the soundest claims of the
! Democratic Party to tho support and con
| iidenco OF the people is its honest and mag
niiicent reduction Of those expenditures.
Follow ciiiZsns, while | ask for your
trust and support, wish 10 say that il is
my heartfelt dosire that harmony should
prevail in your councils. Above all things,
l want to see union and harmony in the
| Democratic party in this district. Let that
consideration outweigh all others and let
no friond Of mino say or do aught. at any
tine or III any place, that would encourage
or countcnance split or diseorl in out
| ranks.
Nor would approve of Il campaign o.
personal pickering and aspcrsion. YOU
have many worthy and abie candidates DO
fore You and it has not been and shall MOI
be my purpose to dctract one jot or tittft
from their good standing, fair namo anC
sound Democracy:
"For il no basis boar my rising fame
But tho fallen ruins of anothcrS name,
Then teach me Heaven to &corn tho guilt,
+ bays,
Drive from my hreast the wrat ched last @
praise
tnblcmishcd let nc 1.-Two or die unknown
Grant INC an honest fame, or grant M
Nonct'
a. \. EtNBY.
Momoc, La, July "a, 1856.
4 HcuIptor's Misfortune and II. Sequel