Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1873-04-26
TAX RKsIsTANCR IN NEW O
LEANS.
Gov. KoIIsgs Hanged In Kmgy nm
harmed.
[Frsm the New Orleans Times, April 2o.l

JFrsm the New Orleans Times, April 90
In tho Superior District Court, on Fri
day last, in the case Of the State ". Ed.
ward Booth, now pending, to compel dc.
70 ndsnt to pay his license tax, the court
adjudgsd that Mr.. Rsoth had violated IN
order Of the court, for which Judge Hawk
ms sentenced him to DO confined in the
Parish prison fer twenty-feur hours, and
10 pay . 6ns Of twenty dollars.
From the present attitude OF many OF
the citizens Of our city to the State gov
government, the case naturally excited
the profoundest interest, and the decree
of tho court in fnins Mr.. Booth and send
ing him to prison, naturally created
widespread sympathy. According to in
structions, MIR. Booth was imprisoned on
Friday at l o'clock, p. n, 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 sympsthizsrs, to make
. grand demonstration at the hour Of his
release, and esoort him to his business,
to show their sympathiss, and in what
appreciation no was held for having BE-
come the object Of an oppression, in the
defence Of his personal rights.
Before the hour Of his release, . large
concourse of people assembled before the
doors of the prison, to hail the dslivsrsnce
Of the prisoner, and the snte-rsen was
threnged with friends anxious to prefer
the hand of sympathy and coincidence.
Presently, at l O'Clock, Capt. FrsnssuI
approached Mr. Booth and told him that
he was free, supplementing the announce
me.t with a hope that Mr.. Booth would
regard the duty which had devolved upon
him in the spirit in which II was per-
formed, that of . strict observance Of
orders.
Mr.. Booth replied by thanking the cap-
tain for the courtesy shown him, and de-
olaring that he would remember him only
as a friend Taking the arm Of Mr.. E.
J. Elias, Mr.. Booth filed out Of the room,
and stepped into = carriage in waiting,
amid rousipg cheers and . stirring air
from the baud. Messrs. Ellis, Mellon, and
Colonel s. JIM. Smith also tosk seats in
the carriage, which led of, followed BY
the band and the large concourse Of peo
ple, who gradually f,ll into an orderly
| line If tvo.. to the number Of shout four
hundred.
Filing out to Rampar, street, tho pho.
ce,sio. turned sp said street and marched
to Canal. Several hundred persons
thronEed tho bsuqustts and moved with
the line on its march. From Canal the
carriage turned up Crrondelet street, and
marched to Poydras, down Poydras !"
lamp and down Camp to the corner OF
Gravier. 'E.
On the way TO this place the marching
assembly gave repeated and loud cheers,
which were voeiferous on beholding an
etiigy Mt the corner of Camp and Gravier
streets, hung to = telegraph pole. All
exclaimed, !That's Kellogg That's KEEL
!og.!' and the cheers were renewed.
From whence the sfigy was taken to the
corner of Magazine and GrAvier, and
again strung up, this time to lamp post.
Here . large crowd gathered, when some
one applied match to the sfigy, when 1t
was in short time entirely destroyed.
The carriage containing Mr.. Booth drove
tc the door Of his place Of business, csr.er
Of Magazine and Gravier streets, AM -
aliehting from the vehicle, the crowd {, Z.
loudly upen him for an address, to bioL
h, gave heed by mounting box and mo-
t;oniup for silence. He thanked the as
sembly for the grand demonstration which
thew had made on the event Of his release,
but re gsrded the fervor rather to the mer-
| it's of the principles which were involved,
than feeling appertainiug 10 his case in
dividually.
He denounced the steps taken against
him IS . move showing that the most sacred
rights of the people are jeopardissd, and
that the present adm Illustration was
,rr.yed sepinst the liberty Of the people;
that they had been outraged, and that 1t
now devolvsd upon them 10 resist ~ every
legitimate means the advances Of this
| onnreasiou. He cited to them the fact
| that their cause wss now before the Con-
rress of the people-the nation itself---
and not that body termed . Congress which
ASSEMBLIES at Washington.
The people Of this country would event
lually CRY against the wrongs now being
psrpstrsted, and they would be adjusted.
Hc exhorted them TO remember that setter.
nal vigilance is the price Of liberty" and
that to be supinely dormant was to see
eyory yestise Of freeman's boon swept
from them. MIR. Booth closed his remarks
by saving: "This 10 State whore men
know their rights, and knowing then, 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 bs the despsiier OF
peoples liberty. e