The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1873-04-26
DALLAS TEXAS SATURDAY MORNING, April. % 1873
TAX REsIsTANCR IN NEW Or
LEANS.

LEANS.
Gov. Kellogg Hanged In Emsy and
Burned.
[Frsm the New orleans Times, April 291
In the Superior District Court, ON Fri
day last, in the case Of the State VI. Ed
ward Booth, now pending, to compel de-
PENDANT to pay his license tax, the court
adjudgsd that Mr.. Booth had violated An
order Of the court for which Judge Hawk
ms sentenced him 10 be confined in the
Parish prison for twenty-four hours, and
to pay fine Of twenty dollars.
From the present attitude Of many OF
the citizens Of our, city,to the State gov.
government the case naturally excited
he Brofoundest interest, and the decree
Of the court r. iuing Mr., Booth and send
ing him TO prison. naturally created .
wjde-spread sympathy. According TO in-
strnctious. Mr. Booth was imprisoned on
Friday atl oclockE p NJ, for twenty -four
hours
On Sunday morning it was agreed
among his immediate personal friends,
the members Of the Tax Resisting Asso-
citation, and their sympathizers, to make
grand emoustration at the hour Of his
release, and 'oort him to his business
to show their sympathies, and in what
appreciation no was held for having ba-
come the object of an oppression, in the
defence Of his pefsoDal rights.
Before the hour of his release. y l,rge
concourse OF people assembled before the
doors of the prison, to hail the deliv-rance
of the prisoner, and the antc-room was
thronged with friends anxious to prefer
the hand Of sympathy and coincidence.
Presently, at l O'clock, Capt. Frsneaux
approached Mr Booth and told him that
he was free, supplemeuting the announce
ment with hope that Mr.. Booth would
regard the duty which had devolved upon
him in the spirit in which it was per-
formed, that of a strict observance Of
orders.
Mr.. Booth replied by thanking the cap
tain for the courtesy shown him, and de-
claring that he would remember him only
as friend. Taking the arm Of Mr.. Il.
]. Elias, MIR. Booth sled ont of the room,
and stepped into carriage in waiting,
amid rousng cheers and stirring air
from the band. Messrs. Ellis, Mellon, and
Colonel s. j. N. Smith also took seats In
the carriage, whish led off, followed by
no band and the large concoursc Of peo-
Ole, who gradually foil into IN orderly
line Of twos, to the number Of about four
hundred.
Filing out to Rampant street, the pro.
cession turned sp said street and marched
to Canal. Several hundred persons
thronged the banquette and moved with
the line on ito march. From Canal the
turned up Carondelet street, and
marched to Poydrss, down Poydras 10
Camp, and down Camp to the corn er Of
t-....,
On the way to this place the marching
assembly gave repeated and loud cheers
which were voeiferous on beholjing an
eifgy at the corner of Camp and Gravier
streets, hung to a telegraph pole. All
exclaimed .Thats Kellogg That's Kel-
logg' and the cheers were renewed.
From whence the effigy was taken to the
corner of Magazine and Gravier, and
again strung up, this time to a lamp post.
Here large crowd gathered, when some
one applied match to the efigy, when it
was in short time entirely destroyed.
The carriage containing Mr.. Booth drove
to the door of his place Of business, corner
of Magazine and Gravier streets, and on
alightug from the vehicle, the crowd called
loudly upon him for an address, to which
hs gave heed by mounting box and mo-
tioning for silence. lie thanked the as.
sembly for the grand demonstration which
they had made on the event of his release,
but regarded the fervor rather TO the mer-
its of the principles which were involved,
than feeling appertaining to his case in
dividually.
He denounced the steps taken against
him as move showing that the mos sacred
rights Of the people are jeopardized, and
that sths present administration was
srrayed against the liberty Of the people;
that they had been outraged, and that it
now devolved upon them to resist BY evory
legitimate means the advances Of this
He cited to them the fact
that their cause waS now before the Con-
gress Of the people-tbe nation itself.
and not that body termed Congress which
assemblies at Washington.
The people of this country would eveEt-
ually cry against the wrongs now being
and they would be adjusted.
He exhorted them to remember that "eter.
nal vigilance is the price of liberty" and
that to be supinely dormant was to see
evory vestige Of freemsn's boon swept
from them. Mr.. Booth closed his remarks
by saying: "This 10 State where men
know their rights, and knowing them, dare
defend them"
Loud cries for Mr. Campbell and Mr..
Ellis were made, but these gentlemen not
presenting themselves, Col. Smith took the
stand and, in the name of Mr..
Booth, requested that the crowd now
retire, at the same time urging them to be
prepared and nerved to their work, and il
occasion demand, let the halter be applied
to him who would be the despoiler Of n
peoples liberty.
The assembly retired amid loud huzzas.