The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-06-29
june 10 1872
\ meeting Of the citizens of COulee
f~'rOrhp-

june ID 1872
a meeting of the citizens of COulee
CrOchc-
Mr. N Richard called to the chair
AnnlS Cummings secretary
Dr. Mcmillan was requested to state
the object of the meeting
Gentlemen / presume we have been
called here to-day to vindicate our char
acters III regard to al article published
III the OpelOtlSaS journal of the9instant
headed another outrage, intimating that
there Is 4 band of aSSasSinS i'll our midst
and we know them, now Gentlemen |
would make this motion that we the citi-
zenS OF C0ulce CrOche are opposed to all
disOrderly conduct whittier it come un-
der the head of kukluXOr any other that
would deprive any individual of his law
f!l rights to life liberty or property. and
that we are opposed to those clans that
are committing outrage i'll whatever
part OF the country it may be dome. and
that we know of no such elan but if we
shall here after find that there are such
among us. we will surely report them to
the proper authorities
unanimously adopted
on motion of Asa Miller that u c0mmity
0t three be appointed to answer the
Journal although he claim this high
journalistic privilege OF condemning
C0ulee CrOche before he knew where or
by whom the outrage was committed.
COmmittee-Gustave D~elahoussaye
WCJOhnsOn Annis Cumming NJ Richard
On motion of Nh Marcel Richard was
added to committee
Editor Of tho 0pelouMas Journal d.
1t seems that COulee CrOche is to he
hunted down by you, and the Lake
Charles echo. you assert that we have Il
band OF those Infamous assassins who
are killing and doing all the
that is done i'll the parish. now let us the
people of COulee Cr0che have n say mi it,
you have admitted that we are ten to
II against the murderers. then YOU
must come to one of two conclusions
that We do not care d. we are consumate
towards. any brave man will come to
this conclusion, nOw.allow Ills the people
of Coulee Cr0cle to say that neither liz
true we have no such clan in this neigh
borho0d to the best of our knowledge
and it You know of any Il or more Of
such persons, please give us natice but
we DO not hold ourselves accountable
for the people in vermilii0n parish or
crimes committed in Grand GOteau or
any any other part of the parish or state
we there fore hope you have seen your
error In the article of the 8 June and
that in your next you will correct it,
june Be
meeting call to order Gustave DelahOu-
sage in the chair on motion the above
was adopted
motion by Delahousaye ESQ resolve
that we the people of C0ulee CrOche
hereby endorse and approve of the eff
cient conduct of (District) attorney Hnd-
speth IN ferretting ont crimes and we
hereby pledge ourselves to assist any
offices il necessary day or nightfn bring
ing those mTIrderers to Justice, resolve
that we request the two Opelousas pa
pers to publish the proceeding of this
meeting
Annis Cumming Sect
Marcel Richard president HOnOre Son
nier w C johnson JAMcMillan Edmond
Leger LESSEE w Ferguson Treville Lee
ger Cezaire Miller Iephezin LegeF Simon
Doueet Pierre MeLane a A Kimberley
j d Richard Ednd Tlibodeau Jos Fer
gusOn Aug1stin LegeF JOS Venable
Emile Sonnier Placide Thih0deau Leon
Thihndeau VIM Miers VIM Fall Kalsin
Leger Auguste G~ourvelle Valmont Fall
CD Smith Sylvester Miller Homer Miller
John Bite Colligan Michel Venable Alex
aIlUB Cummings JHIilPS BETT James NGI-
son Asa Miller I'D Miller II II Brown
Richard Shaddicks Pierre Woods Gus
tlve Delahousaye Wash Cummings w
+ Smith TlleOdilc S0nnier Ben Higgin-
botham Henry Guidry VIM Smith Pierre
Montousse Honore Meche 9
THE VOICE or KENTEeKr.-The
Louisville Ledger does not appear To ex+
ercise very much influence i'm Kentucky.
Observation-Disclosures the 18th ann0gln-
ceS that the city and county convention
! appointed delegates to the State Con-
!, vention who favor the endorsement of
I Greeley and.Brown. The Ledger has
beenclamoring m0stlustilyf for straight
j out Democratic ticket for some time,
but the people needed not. They fully
{ realize the situation, and will mo longer
/ imperil our civil institutions simply TO
J crafty Il vain and FuitlessspiritOfpaFt
J stubbornness. The people arc not so
. much for "parfyp now IFS they are for
country. The party remains unsha-
/ ken, but the country has been shattered
I to atoms and being unable to gatherup
| the fragments alone, the Democrats ask
friendly Republicans and others to aid
/ them in picking MP what is left, and i'm
II rebuilding the old constitutional tent
J pie. I'm this way only can the march OF
imperialism be arrested by such n Goa
/ litiOn of liberal elements alone can We
hope to gain the sceptre and badge of
power. We are glad TO see Kentucky
: Pebukingthe BoiifboIis Who it permitted
to lead the way, would carry MS TO an
l other Democratic funeral. The whole
2 State will unquestiOnably follow the
/, example set by Louisville, and thus re-
; mind Col. BlantOn Duncan and his hand
full of e die in the last ditch adheFents,
, that the people of the Commonwealth
: are for the country first, and then the
party.-EEicksburg Herald.
! The Louisville Courier-JoHrnal keeps
hammeFing away mt the dead body OF
Dan Voorhees,. Here is the latest:
: Dan Voorhees, loves the South. In
1880 he told MS that the AbOlitiOnIstS
: would have to walk over hin dead body
I tn GET at us. Vet lie voted men and
money to sublne us. Three weeks ago
: he reminded us of our 0bligatiOnt 10 Nun;
? and then, when our dearest hberIlesS
. were IN i'm the scale and being weighed
: in the balance, he ran away from on
/, gress and left Ts to root for ourselves,
1 whilst he plotted OHr destruction lA In
6 diana. As the young lady III 1l0stesf
observed TO the young man OF BeIY.al,
ad-m such n man q Dan Voorhees,
Then q picavuHes says that the BOfr-
!. hon State ticket fell stiiIbOEn upon the
Z neoplp Of tlatcity. The SoUth-Bestern
! ,1isfs fine ticket, but is forced to make
! nm anueal to its readers NOT to repudiate
tlteS abortion. Tt New Orleans ana
: Shreveport, which were mainly instfil-
! mental in committing the folly OF put
), ting the ticket i'm the field, fail TO SHOW
any enthusiasm, what can he tXpesets't
elsewhere in the State where the asfntlle
4 otnpiditv If the ROurbOns W~aSgnnNenlll-