Year: 1872




The manifest disposition on the part
of many leading politicians and editors
to ignore the nominations made at tho
late Dem ocratic Convention for State
offices, has had Il damaging effect upon
the successful prospect of the ticket.
A feeling of dissatisfaction seems to
have taken fast hold upon the people,
and in their great anxiety to relieve
the State of the expressions under
which it has so long groaned, they are
pursuing the very course, which, in our
humble Judgment, will tend to rivet
the chain Of despotic rule more firmly
upon the people. Should this ,lisa fee
ton culminate in u new party organi-
ZatiOn, with new leaders and new is
sues, we can see nothing but defeat
and disaster as the result of its hasty
action. In the present political cXi
gencies of the times, we cannot afford
to spring issues that will tend to the
disintegration Of the party. That con-
! cessions should be made, and alliances
formed for the general veal, all must
admit, but can any one be 50 blind as
to suppose that the Democratic party
| will consent to Il disruption Gifts organ
ization, merely to gratify the whims
and capriccs of disappointed Office
seekers and designing politicians: We
are aware that (: large and respectable
number of those who favor this new
departure, are true and honest in their
Intentions, and really desire the ulti-
mate good of the State; but the uucs
ton to be determined il this, can a ncW
organization effect what the Democratic
party, assisted by strong outside in
tlucnce, is powcrless to accomplish:
Think you the great and patriotic Dem
ocratic party Of the State will throw up
its ticket, and rally, as ono man, around
Il new standard, borne aloft by new
leaders, with the ostensiblc object they
have in view, and tc which the honor
and strength of the party are pledged ::
This would be to cNalt human nature
beyond the highest moral attitude at
tainable by man. We believe the
State can be redeemed through the in
strumcntality of the present Democrat
ic nominees, if the Ecformcrs and dis
affected Republicans will support the
ticket, and which they should do, if
they arc sincere III their desire for re-
trCnchmCnt and reform. The formal
ton of any new party, ut this late day,
will carry with it an element OF weak
ness instead cf strength, for tho great
mass of the Democracy will not tan,r-
" submit to tho humiliation which
will thus nc cast upon It's action, in
presenting II ticket which nll good and
trnc men can support, with every rnn-
fidence in its ability to accomplish the
great end had in view.


The call for Il parish convention on
the fourth instant is we'll enough, pro-
vidcd its action will look alone to the
redemption of the State through icgiti-
mate and honorable means. If that
convention, and all others throughout
the state, will pledge fcalty and sup
port to the Democratic ticket. and labor
for its success, it will surely triumph
over the combined powers of Radical
ism: otherwise, it will be ShOrn of lis
strength, and in the traGm"utary and
cmaSculated condition of parties, the
Radical element will Win the conflict,
and an illiteratc negro Governor ahap"
the destiny of diSgraced and degraded
Louisana.-SHTsi'e0o Southwestern.


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