The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-10-24

4. act of Mr.. White raised the Indignation of tn
y citizens; public meetings were held in almos
I every ward inthe parish, where resolutions wer
q passed against the payment Of the tax by tn
st people, unless compelled by law. They ads
e pledged themselves not to vote for or suppoi
any person for office who was in favor OF th
!, tax At the Summer Grove meeting, docto
c Flournoy presided as president, and Mr. Whit
7 was severely censured for doing that which b
I twas required to perform by the police jury AM
n was ii accordance with his own view of wha
s was for tie interest Of tie parish. See articl
S above copied from the Caddo Gazette
; Doctor Flournoy' S opposition to the tax grow
+ stronger. He says, you can never build TIN
] railroad unless the company will relmquish TIL
n tax. Then the people would voluntarily sub
S scribe without being forced to do So Matter
: drag on heavily for the road. At last ricl
: Georgia company take the contract to built
/ and equip the road from the Mississippi to tn,
{ east bank of Red River, and deliver it to tn.
company in December 1860; they receiving
all the revenues Of the entire road, even if com
pleted ia twelve months from signing the con
, tract, as their payment. It is unnecessary Il
say now every person is in high hopes of the
road to the Mississippi river, which we all wan
and which is. the only road the planting inter
lest ofthe countryis in any way interested in
The doctor now feels and sees that this is the
big side ofthe question, and we again find him
on 1t. He is one of six who take a contract to
construct the road from Shreveport to the Tex
as line, and agrees to receive In payment three
iourths OF the contract price in stock and bonds
of the company and one fourth in cash. Now
can the doctors railroad stock and bonds be
made available, or prove remunerative to him,
usout tile collection Of tie taT, to iron and equip
the road? Most assuredly not. This end OF
the road (from Shreveport to the Te1as-line)
HAS TO BUILD ITSELF! Dr.. Flournoy is a mem
Der of the company who have undertaken to
build it, and believe he would never have Join
ed this company but for the fact that he was
well satisfied that the tao 4Uould be Collected
But, the doctor says, elect him to the legisla-
ture-that he has influence in New Orleans
I that be will use his influence, and expects to
get large subscriptions from the merchants of
| New OrleansH This is the most absurd part
of all he has enacted in the railroad comedy
| What will the New Orleans merchants saw in
answer to his solicitations? They will tell him
that New Orleans has now millions of dollars
locked up in the valley of Red River-that a
railroad to the Texas-line will only convey.
cotton to Shreveport, where we have had thou
sands of bales in store for twelve months past.
Tap the Mississippi river-that is the road for
you and us. The doctor cannot fall back on his
influence at home for the road-for, alasi his
loft and on movements" will be known This
is the man who now wants your votes for the
legislature He brought forward therairoad
tax, urged its necessity and propriety, and then
voted against it; and at Summer Grove solemn
" pledged himself TO Support no man for of
fee, from the highest to the lowest, who is in
favor of taxation for internal improvements, -
when he himself was one of originators of the
obnoxious policy and earnestly appealed to bis
fellow citizens to vote in its favor Now, where
do you find him? Investigate closely and see
if his interest viii not at this time prompt him
to be in Javor Of collecting tie tag, and have
the money his company will, if they can BY |
any means collect it. These are some of nv
reason for opposing the doctor; but there are
many others which have no time to enume-
rate. A TAXPAYER.
SAM" published at Mansfield, asks the
anti-Americans, who pretend to entertain so
much love for foreigners, why at the last ses-
sion of the legislature, they enacted the follow
ing law:
Sec. L. Be it enacted, &C., That any free
white citizen of the United States, possessing
the qualifications Except that of resdence1
necessary to constitute legal voter shall be ad-
mltted to practice as an attorney at law in any
court of this State upon obtaining license
from the supreme court of this State. /
The foregoing statute was signed by Messrs !
Sandidge and Wicklitfe, and approved by the {
governor. Il permits all citizens of the Uni c
ted States to practice law in Louisiana, even $
before acquiring the right of voting, but en- |
,rely forbids an unnaturalized foreigner from {
the same privilege. The right of ,
practising. law is a civil right, and the demo- !
cratic Legislature of Louisiana has in this statute
placed asstronger restriction on the privileges {
If foreigners than is claimed by the American @
party, for we are willing to extend to them all s
he civil rights of American born citizens, and c
'nly seek to modify their political privileges. t
Answer US, gentlemen why you prescribe aliens O
rom exercising a civil right, which can have
10 possible bearing on our political institutions.
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A Washington correspondent of the Charles s
on Standard, referring to a report in circula- V
ion that general Gadsden, our minister to Mex O
co, was IN disgrace with the new government
# that country, on account of non ratification a
# new treaty he had negotiated with Santa o
Anna says: l have made careful inquiries at /
ead quarters, and | find that the state depart a
nent is in possession of no such facts. On the b
ther hand the prospect is, that general Gads- tt
en- will be able to accomplish now the objects a
4 which he failed before Santa Annals over V
brow. Several large claims for damages are a
ending before the Mexican government in ia il
or of citizens of the United States 1t was al
eneral Gadsden's inability to effect any ar Al
with the dictator which has furnish tt
d ground for much complaint, and for the oft -
epeated charges of i'll feeling between secreta- Ia
y Marcy and the minister to Mexico. [ feel a
authorised in saying, however, that the kindest Sc
Citations exist now and have always existed be- te
ween these two gentlemen. n.y.. e@e W
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The Jefferson Herald says thatit learns from le
''reliable source that all of the streams above
re oyerfowing; Sulphur out Of its banks, and
PIPER Red River rising rapidly The Her. CT