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ST. FKANC1SV1LLE, LOUISIANA, FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1872.
NEW SER1ES-Ï0L 1. KO. 39.
Address to tlte People of Louis
has nominated and presented a State
settled, and to controversies which
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j ladies at the seaside wear
in long braids, tied with
ibbons. It is said to bo styl
cident to the right arm of
Iman" is considered a good
tbe suspension of a Mis
aper for a week.
i who was told by a clergy
[emember Lot's wife, replied
lad trouble enough with his
|bout remembering other
res.
Arthur, of England, is
contribute to one of the
series of arti
t customs in tho Bri
onsin editor has been pre
kith a peck of new onions,
I his very next breath gives
"strongest" kind of a
I boasts of an elderly man
hundreds of thousands,
|vcls in his own coal. The
i round town don't brag so
I him.
oplc of West Haven, Coh
laro keeping pretty closely
j houses now-a-days. Tho
that a boa constrictor, es
»m a menagerie, is loaûu
te neighborhood.
and Brown clubs are
I up in all parts of Vermont,
j creating wipe-spread con
l among the re-nomination
ieir zeal and the prominence
|wn who are enjoyiiig the
mks.
» Henry Smith, the author
," and a small but
(tk on ethics, died recently
"I, aged sixty-three years.
intense lover of nature,
rated friend of Maurice.—
ttndale" was a book full of
taught, expressed in lan
remarkable tenderness and
ïork paper states that the
of Tennessee " has grant
•ite to Dan Smith, who was
to be hanged to-day till
August." This is a very
"8 on the Governor's part,
11 Smith were to be kept
»twomonths at this hot
® year he would certainly
t'bern (N. C.) Times says :
gentleman was in town
'ays ago to buy some sta
d other little tricks who
»en in Newbern, though
111 adjoining county, in
years ; this was in 1813,
in from tho country
jOsket on his shoulder to
^ militia to the front "
^nt trip down the Mis
■ Forney got up one
wanted ice water.—
RUsual in this, as Col. For
7 Wants water in the morn
ih ? 'reats that beverage
""sly after breakfast. But
make the mistake of
H-ed delegate to the con
"M of a waiter, and had
Address to tlte People of Louis
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Headqcarters Liberal Party op )
Louisana , N. O. July 13,1872. j
Tho Cincinnati convention, recog
nizing tho necessity of uniting all
the elements of opposition to Grant,
nominated as their standard-bearers
Horace Greeley for President and
B. Gratz Brown for Vice President,
and presented for tho consideration
of tho people a declaration of princi
ples. Tho Baltimore convention,
concuring iu tho causes and reasons
which gavo birth to that great popu
lar movement, indorsed their nomi
nations and accepted tho platform
on which their candidates stood. It
has thus set an example to the coun
try which every consideration of
political safety and expediency re
quires should bo imitated within the
States.
If the Democratic party has main
tained its national organization, it is
only that tho alliance with Liberal
ism may bo rendered stronger or
more effectivo. Tho delegates who
met at Baltimore for tlie purpose of
cementing that alliance could not
have anticipated that fractions of
their party, in the several States,
would set themselves in opposition
to tho Liberal Reform movement,
by using their organizations for the
purpose of perpetuating divisions
through the nomination and support
of seperato electoral and State tickets.
They knew that without union on
these points tho acceptance of Gree
ley and Brown would be only a
mockery, a delusion and a snare.
In other States, as in Illinois and
Indiana, the plain course dictated by
common sense and common honesty
has been follojved, and a close union
with the Liberals lias been effected.
In ouo ft joint State tickot has been
nominated, and in tho other the for
mation of tho doctoral ticket has
been remitted to tho whole body of
Liberals. In every State except
Louisiana friendly relations have
been established between tho Liber
als and the Democracy, and efforts
have been made in good faith to
unite tho Liberal and Democratic
vote for State as well as for national
purposes. In Louisiana alone a
different course has been pursued.
In Louisiana alono tho Liberal party
—that party which first rallied to
the support of tho Cincinnati move
ment, which anticipated the decision
of tho national Democracy, and
which gave a resistless impulse to
the Greeley and Brown tickot, lias
been treated by the Democratic or
ganization with contumely and scorn
and made the object of bitter invec
tive and denunciation. And yet, in
Louisiana, perhaps moro than in
any other State, a thorough union
of tho Liberal and Democratic vote
is necessary to success. So evident
is this fact that on the adjournment
of the Opera House Democratic Con
vention, thousands of Democrats in
New Orleans and throughout tho
State abandoned tho Democratic
organization and joined the Liberal
party. These accessions are counted
by tens of thousands. They are so
numerous that we can assert as an
indisputable fact that, in at least
half of the parishes the Democratic
organization is without a follower,
and in the greater portion of the
rest the Liberal party commands a
large majority of what was onco the
Democratic vote.
In the whole State there aro but
sis journals supporting tho Demo
cratic or united State ticket, and of
tbe fifty-six parishes not half a dozen
are represented in the Democratic
State Committee. In spite of these
conspicuous facts, tho Democratic
organization, thus reduced to a mini
imum of voting power, persists in
keeping up a show of separate and
independent organization, and the
Democratic committee, thus emas
culated of represeutative character,
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has nominated and presented a State
and electoral ticket. No rational
man believes that they expect to
elect either ono or tho other, and
hence the public can come to no
other conclusion than that they aro
running their State ticket in the in
terest of the Baton Rouge candidates,
and their electoral ticket for tho
purpose of defeating Greeley and
Brown, tho nominees of their own
National Convention. We distinct
ly charges this upon them, because
wo have no right to assumo that
they aro so blind as not to seo the
facts of tho situation, or so silly as
not to foresee tho necessary effects
of their own acts.
It is proper for the wholo country
as well as for the people of this State,
to know that tho Democratic rump
organization, while pretending to
accept tho decision of the Baltimore
convention, is in reality hostile to
tho national Liberal candidates, and
that while it presents an electoral
ticket in tho name of Greeley and
Brown, it is trying to givo the voto
of tho State to Grant.
Whether this course is tho fulfill
ment of the contract entered into
last winter between tho Custom
house party and the Democratic
committees, whether it is tho result
of moro recent and moro secret bar
gains, having for their object the
control of local offices and patronage,
or whether it is dictated by an un
reasoning obstinacy which prefers
total ruin to success obtained by
concession and conciliation, the pub
lic will decide according to the prob
abilities of the case.
Whatever may bo tho decision,
the Liberal party feels that, if un
fortunately the State should be lost,
they at least will not bo hold respon
sible at tho bar of public opinion.
But they aro convinced that tho
good sense of tho peoplo will avert
tho calamitous consequences which
might otherwiso result from tho bad
faith or tho irrational prejudices of
the Democratic .leaders. They do
not believe that tho peoplo will per
mit tho State to bo sacrificed at the
dictation of men who have shown
themselves utterly incompetent to
understand tho necessities of tho
times, and incapable of achieving
anything but defeat.
The Liberal party appeals to all
citizens who are opposed to Grant's
administration ; to all who are
sincerely in favor of Greeley and
Brown ; to all who wish to defeat
tho machinations of tho corrupt and
wicked faction Çrcpresented by the
Baton Kongo ticket. Their conven
tion, to bo held on tho fifth of
August, will represent a vast major
ity of the Liberal and Democratic
voters of tho State, and their will be
supported by an array of numerical
force, backed by an amount of moral
inilueuco, which will reduce the
Democratic bolt to insignificant and,
perhaps, inappreciable proportions.
Tho people understand that in this
election the State must go either for
the Liberal or for the Customhouse
party. The success of tho one in
sures our vote for Greeley and Brown,
and will give us that practical reform
in State affairs which wo so much
need. The success of tho other,
with Mr. Kellogg as Governor, and a
reversion of tho executive office to
the notorious C. C. Antoine, will en
tail ou us a perpetuation of corrupt
and venal legislation and all the hor
rors of a government remitted to the
hands of tho ignorant, tho vicious
and the degraded. For any useful
purpose the present Democratic or
ganization is powerless. It repels
rather than attracts popular sympa
thy. It appeals only to a naine
which has become an empty word ;
to memories which recall the divisions
and resentments of a bitter past ;
to prejudices and passions which are
the legacy of an era of stnfo and
blood ; to issues which have been
settled, and to controversies which
aro closed.
The Liberal party turns from the
past to tho future ; it seeks to heal
the wounds which years of sectional
hate and angry conflict have inflicted
on tho country ; it strives to release
the peoplo from tho galling fetters
of party tyranny, and to combine in
one great movement all tho opposi
tion to tho corrupt and despotic gov
ernment at Washington ; and to the
equally corrupt and despotic faction
which represents tho national admin
istration in this State.
Representing a great popular
movement and a great popular im
pulse, it yields to the diction of no
cliques and is subservient to no indi
vidual. It invites to its councils all
who sympathize with its effort to re
deem the State and to co-operate in
the redemption of the nation. It is
essentially a party of principle and
toleration, and its action will be in
fluenced solely by the intelligent
public opinion to which alone it con
fides. It appeals to the common
sense, the virtue and the judgement
of tho peoplo ; and to this appeal
the responses aro so general and so
emphatic that it has no longer any
fears for tho result
By order of the Stato Central
Committee.
D. B. PENN, President.
A. Heuo , Jr., Secretary.
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A String of Pearls.
Read tho following opinions of
eminent public men, as tho unfitness
of General Grant :
"No man can hold office under
Grant and maintaiu his self-respect."
—Col. Jno. W. Forney.
" Grant has no more capability
than a horse—Major General Joe
Hooker.
" He is not fit to govern this coun
try."—Stanton's dying words.
Thoro are sixteen weighty reasons
why Grant should never be Presi
dent."—Colfax.
" He has no moro sold than a
dog."—Bon Butler.
" He is not controlled by constitu
tional law, but by political rings."—
Trumbull.
" His San Domingo business
stamps him as a first-class conspira
tor."—Gov. Palmer.
" He is making money out of his
p osition, and that's all he care3 about
it."—Senator Carpenter.
" He is a man without sufficient
knowledge to preside over a caucus."
—Logan.
The California bag of flour, which
netted so much for the Sanitary Com
mission, has a promising rival in
Boston baby house, which has been
twice donated to an Old Ladies'
Home, and has brought over a thou
sand dollars to the institution al
ready. And the liouso is still in the
market, in a hundred shares, at five
dollars a share. Raffling is not ex
actly a Christian institutions, but
why not make a divine use of the
devil's instruments sometimes ?
General Williams, of Nevada, sta
ted to a reporter of tho New York
Tribune that if an honest expression
of opinion were allowed at the polls,
the people of Nevada would in No
vember next cast a large majority
for the Cincinnati ticket.
An Italian savant, M. Luigi Val
lerio, of the Academy of Florence,
has just discovered a new art, that
might be called photo-painting ; for
not only are drawings reproduced
but the colors also with remarkable
distinctness.
" Look here, Potc," said a know
ing darkey to his companion, " don't
stan' on tho railroad."
" Why, Joe ?"
" Ease if he cars see dat mouth
of yourn, dey tink it am do station,
an' run rite in."
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HOPE ON—HOPE fiVEU.
[Written for tl»e Semi-Weekly Republican. J
pe on—hope ever,—when darkest flows
Plie blftck current of life ;
For tortifne laves not strongest those
Whom) course is all smooth ami fair.
ope on—hope ever,— a dav of joy shall coim\
When least tlie soul expeets ;
IDLE WOHDS.
Seeing t wo soft, starry eves,
Darkly bright as midnight skies—
Kye.s prophetic of the power
Sin e to be thv womau's dower,
When tlit- years shall crown thee quocu
Of the realm as yet unseen ;
" Sometimes sweet, those eyes shall make
Lovers mad i'or their sweet sake I"
Seeing tresses, golden brown,
In a bright shower falling down
Dver neck and bosom fair.
As yon sculptured angels are
Odorous tresses, dropping low
'er a forehead pure as kuow ;
Sometimes sweet, in thy soft hair,
Love shall set a shining snare !"
Seeing lips, whose crimson glow
Mock the roses wet with dew—
in, sweet lips, whose Inrath was balra,
Pure, proud lips, serenely calm—
Tender lips, whose smiling grace
Lit with splendor all the l'aee;
•' Sweet, for kiss of thine, some day,
Men will barter souls a way !"
Onco t satd,
God hntli taken care of all,
Joy or pain that might he tall !
Lover's lip shall never thrill
At thy kisses soft and still ;
Idly said !
The Soldier and tlie Politician
I have in days gone by spoken of
Grant's magnificently fought battles
of Mission Ridge and Lookout
Mountain, of his unrivaled tactical
skill and indomitable will as display
ed in the bloody Wilderness. I have
even, to the satisfaction of his most
jealous friends, praised and extolled
him as a soldier, and I ever shall ;
but to-day I am speaking of his po
litical, and not of his military,
achievements. I want to hold up
before your faces Grant the politi
cian, and not Grant the soldier,
ask you to look upon him now as
the leader of a ring of politicians
who claim that the Republican par
ty is all justice, all honor, all mercy,
and above honest criticism, and that
they, with Grant, constitute tho Re
publican party, and not upon Gen
eral Grant, the successful leader of
our great Union armies. And when
I tell you that this government has
been plundered under the present
administration as no nation was ever
plundered before since the days when
republican Rome was ruled by a
Cœsar and robbed by a Mark An
tony, I don't want you to answer,
" Yes, 'tis true, but then Grant cap
tured Vicksburg." When the whole
country is clamoring for civil service
reform, and reform in government
and judging from the past wo can
not have it under Grant—wo will
not be silenced by the cry, " Yes,
but Grant whipped Bragg at Mis
sion Ridge." And when we show
that Grant and his admirers have
disgraced and humiliated us a na
tion abroad ; that he arrogates to
himself powers delegated alono to
Congress ; that tho wholo tendency
of his administration is toward cen
tralization ; and finally, that he at
tempted to force through Congress
tho outrageous proposition to place
in his hands the power to suspend
law in the time of profound peace,
that he might place a creature of his
own at tho ballot-box, backed by
federal bayonets at every town and
hamlet, to re-elect himself to the
high office he has so shamefully dis
graced, it will not do to say, " Yes,
but Grant received tho sword of
Lee at Appomattox Courthouse."
Gentlemen, the partisans of Grant
are powerless to refute tho charges
of wholesale frauds, of executive
maladministration, of dishonesty and
corruption in highest places, of the
crimes and misdemeanors of their
chief himself. Ho and his partisans
are trampling upon the rights of the
Stato and the liberty of the people ;
they are binding us over to a milita
ry despotism, and their cry comes
back, " What are you going to do
about it ; didn't Grant capture Lee
at Appomattox Courthouse ?" They
shut their ears to the indignant mur
muring of an awakening people.—
They close their eyes to the omnious
strides already made to Grant's in
ordinate ambition and lust for pow
er, and, heralding abroad with peaus
of ecstatic praise his most insignifi
cant achievements, they tremble at
his nod and bend in humble submis
sion to his slightest wish. Gentle
men, let us rather " be dogs and bay
the moou" than be such Americana.
—Sjieech of General Kilpat-rick.
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The Reason Why the 1'coplc
12 rumble.
[From the Baton Rouge Gazette-Comet.]
Any murmuriügs of the people
against Government officials since
tho rebellion has been ascribed to
their hatred of the government, the
laws and yankees iu particular with
out ever investigating whether they
had any just cause to gi'umblo or
not. In many instances government
officials who were candidates for tho
new fledged favors of the colored
people, made these murmurings of
the peoplo against their official acts
an excuse to make political capital
out of, and we dare say that through
just such agencics all the cry about
Ku-Klux has been raised.
The government always listening
to its faithful subs of course con
tinued to persecute tho rebel spirit
while tho sub was making a good
thing out of it. Laws were enacted
upon which ho could easily place his
own constructions, and give himself
all the power he wanted to further
his purpose which, to him in a pecu
niary way, was a very laudable one.
Wo have a case before us that de
serves attention not only from the
ing masses at the approaching
election, but also from officials high
er in authority than the individual
who figures in this transaction. We
will first produce this receipt and
then wo will proceed to explain some
few things about it as related to us
iu person by Mr. Williams of West
Feliciana parish, doing business at
Tunica, La., about thirty miles abovo
Bayou Sara :
No. 13. (1)
U. S. Internal Revende, )
May ad, 1871. )
Received of Williams & Porter,
(Tunica.) '
Seventy-seven $77 20[100 Dollars
for Excise Tax on Itetail Liquor To
bacco Dealer and $30,00. Penalty
50 per cent. $15 DO. Interest and
Costs by Seizure $32 20. Total
$77 20. Being amount assessed on
Nov., list of for year 1870, ending
May 1st, 71.
A. J. Whittier,
Collector.
Mr. Williams states that he called
at the office of Mr. A. J. Whittier in
tho town of Bayou Sara, in compli
ance with tho public notice of that
official to settle his indebtedness to
the United States Government and
Mr. Whittier was no where be found;
again and again ho visited the town
of Bayou Sara purposely to see Mr.
Whittier with the sole intention of
settling his indebtedness but neither
time was he able to catch tho atten
tive official at his office, and at ex
pense, trouble and great inconven
ience ho was each time disappointed.
Afterwards, however, he happened
to be in that town on business and
he accidently met Mr. Whittier and
then and there informed him of tho
facts above stated and reiterated
that he wished to pay his dues to
tho Government. Mr. Whittier
made out his claim against Williams
as abovo, knowing tho facts as stat
ed, and when remonstrated with by
Mr. Williams, threatened to close up
his store if ho did not pay the
charges in full as made.
As interesting items we cite tho
fifty per cent penalty, incurred alone
by tho neglcct of Whittier to be at
his office at tho dates he advertised
himself to bo there. Then again
there is tho interest and costs incur
red by seizure, when Mr. Williams
informs us that no seizure was made.
If this bo the case what right had
Mr. Whittier to demand thirty-two
dollars and twenty ceuts for inter
ests and cost of seizure when no
seizure was made. We should like
to know how such things as this can
be reconciled in tho eyes of the peo
plo ? Probably an examination into
tbe case would have the salutary
effect of unearthing another trans
action, though very small in none
tho less mean. Owing to limited
space we have to cut this interesting
article off short to-day but we will
refer to it with pleasure at another
time. There are other things in this
case wo wish to refer to and there
fore this article will be continued in
our Tuesday's issue.