The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-07-30
The Militia Question.

A DELEGATION FROM SHREVE-
PORT CALLS TO SEE GOVERNOR
WARMOTH-THEA ADDRESS AND
REPLY.
A report that Governor War
moth designed sending battalion
of State militia to Caddo parish
to preserve order during the next
election was the occasion of a
meeting of the white citizens OF
that place being held on the ninth
instant. The object of assembling
was declared to be for the purpose
of sending an address to the. Gov
ernor, protesting against any such
action, if such, indeed, were his
intentions, which was not very
positively asserted by any of the
speakers. We find in the Shreve
port Gazette a report of the pro-
ceedings and the resolutions
adopted on the occasion, as fol-
lows:
Whereas, A rumor has reached
us that Governor WarmOth de-
signs sending a battalion or regi
ment of strangers to perform duty
in our parish
Be it resolved, We are unwilling
to believe that Governor Warmoth
contemplates an act SO directly
hostile to us and ruinous to our
interests, and so directly in viola
ton of the laws of the State.
| Resolved, We solemnly assert
that in no community does law
and order more absolutely prevail
than with US, and never in the
history of this section of the State
has law been more uniformly and
quietly enforced than now. ANY
statement to the contrary we de-
nounce as false and calumnious,
and we call upon the officers of
the law to confirm this assertion.
| Resolved, That we are ready
and will proceed at once to organ
ize the militia under existing laws,
and will hold ourselves subject to
all orders from our superior Off
GERS.
| Resolved, That the chair APP
point a committee of five to CON-
municate in person to the Govern
or and Adjutant General, and to
lay before them any facts or infor-
nation pertinent to the subject OF
these resolutions.
The chairman of the meeting, Z.
7. Land, appointed the following
gentlemen on a committee to visit
Governor Warmoth, in compliance
with the fifth resolution: r. G.
Cummings, r. J. Looney, j. S.
Ashton, S. L. Taylor, J. w. Dun
can, A. III. Leonard, G. B. Clarke,
T. 2. Leavenworth, G. M. Pegues,
L. G. billiard. The meeting had
designated Mr.. Land as chairman
of this committee.
On Saturday, the 10th instant,
this delegation waited upon the
Governor and read to him the
following address:
NEW ORLEANS, July, 1870.
To His Excellency, H C. Warmoth, Govern
or of the State of Louisiana:
| SIR-We have the honor to in
form YOU that we have been an.
pointed a committee to present to
you the enclosed resolutions,
adopted at a public meeting of the
citizens of Caddo, Bossier and
DeSoto parishes, held on the 9th
inst. in the city of Shreveport, and
to call your attention to the fol.
lowing statement of facts in rela
| ton thereto.
We have learned that it is your
intention to send a regiment OF
militia to the parish of Caddo at
the coming election in November,
and believing our information to
be correct, we are constrained to
express to you, in the most pointed
manner, the universal anxiety
which has been thereby created
in the public mind.
The parish of Caddo was never
in a more quiet condition than il
is now. The laws are universally
obeyed and enforced, and the
rights of person and property are
everywhere respected. The Off
GERS of the courts concur in the
statement that fewer infractions
of the law take place now than al
any other period in the history o.
the parish. From no quarter have
we learned of any attempt to in
| fringe upon the rights and priv
leges Of any class in the commu
, nifty. Free opinion and free speech