The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-09-19
MEETING AT THE COURT mech,
Dallas FOrmalixes in Words OfVire
Her Sympathy for the Oppressh.

In accordance with call Nelly
signed 10y our most prominent citi1ps,
tremendous outpouring of the petle
of this city assembled at the c1rt
house on Wednesday evening to ste
expression to their sympathies W.
the lion-hearted efforts of the peole
of Louisiana, to liberate themselv(
from the bondage of misgovernmen\
On motion of Judge Good, the meet
ing was called to order and organized
by the selection of General William
l.. Cabell rs chairman and Major Jas.
f. Barkley, as secretary,
In explaining the objects of the
meeting, General Cabell made most
telling and thrilling speech, in which
he rose to the full height of his fine
abilities as an orator and concluded
amid laundering applause.
On motion, /. committee OF five was
appointed to draft and report resolu-
tions expressive of the sense of the
meeting. ID. McCaleb, r.. f Burks,
G. Fred. Tucker, l.. DePoorter and y.
Harwood were appointed said commiG-
tee.
| During the absence of said commit
tee, able and powerful addresses weie
delivered by Judge Good, Captain
Bower, Captain Brooks, Major Stevens,
Captain Fred. Tucker and others.
The committee, through its chair
man, ID. McCalGp, reported the follow
ing preamble and resolutions, which
were unanimously adopted:
oil nf T.It
and county of Dallas, fully apprecia-
ting the dire Affections to which the
good and true people of our sister state,
Louisiana, have been subjected by re-
suits growing out of the late war, in
which corrupt carpetbaGgers and igno'
rant negroes have risen to an unnler-
tied and unwarranted position OF pow
er, which they have violated no less in
their own personal interests than in
the overthrow and destruction OF those
rights that characterize the happiness
and prosperity of Il free people; and,
Whereas, The burdens imposed 10y
corrupt legislation, the insults offered
by officials who owe their position to
every conceivable machination Of
fraud, and the practice of ceaseless i'll
dignities under which brave men, who
knowing their rights dare maintain
them, have at last met their doom in 4
forcible Resistance by our ttlloW-oitl'
Zens of tl,aC state, who have exhausted
ever virtue of forbearanCe ia 4 patient
enduran,e Of their ills .and-A-l4 huve
-6TeD nee, 3ai.dN 80 appeo0 to ne G'h'
of battle. for ,gvndicatiun Of tbs
wrongs; anG,
Whereas, Syiro.hi~inF as do b
every throu az aiu, go ever emotion
Of regret aNd very iWpulse of tr,e
manhood tbay ilye Qc1asioned die
causes ms wei astua results of the COZ.
ilict in Louisian oW we citizens Ct
Dallas city ana county, 10, in mas
meeting asscmbsd,
Resolve, Tim 1a hail " it'll deligh
the success tn, aa crowned the bold
resistance ma iLr h- tgue men o.
New Orleans swfy whose prowcss
public pluud Designing dema
gogues ana corrupt uiicials have
melted away mi-t- vciore morn,
ing's sun, all eft to the people of
Louisiana full aId free enjoyment ol
their sovereign rihts.
That we pledgepur support and most
hearty cp0peraqu in any 9nd all
measures that my be devised by the
representative MI Of our sister state
that may be ealclated 10 preserve and
protect the liber9s they have SO n0hly
wresied from thdhungry hordeS that
for six long, wegy years have been
feasting and fat9ning upon those in
terests nearest adj dearest to the heart
of every freeman
That in the iliJht of the carpet bag
gers, the exodus { scalawags, end the
consequent depWure of vice from the
administration ii the public affairs of
Louisiana, we rbgniZe the advent of
a new light tbJ -will soon dispel the
deep gloom, un@,rdOnable Ignorance
and apparent eollptlpn from the gov
prnhsnts OF othJ states of the south,
where the vuitprt Of radicdlisiH still
feasts undisturbethlp0i. tne,liberties of
the people.
That We regard he proclamation of
President Grant s,ihe re- ult of false
and malicious m sppseu;atiOn of the
true stale Of airs rs ifley exist ~
Louisiana, tpat w. lei Ne he las
given his eAt u an, tygehs gho lah
singn6 soigs thaa nnEst nd ~ v,Hli.
| and that she ! ..i.,l -sp4e u p.ulf
4 iereas in no@sf slai nnairhs grl-.
than q military 'sspitI-ta win tis4e
| that, in our uiaai y. lie entire south
should MAKE c. last appeal to him
aud to congress tave Louisiana, 49,,
TO send the sirUuaAand Of the federal
government OF ne yirtuOus side OF
this contest.
That copy % th,ss resolutions, to-
getber with 0lgratulations Of this
meeting, be ilFWasisi ly me chair
main to acting Governor Penn, at
New Orleans4