The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1874-07-08

, ueTSLauu Inc nature ana lmlOF
lance of the White League, it has
been thought best to defer organ,
izatiOn until the assembly of the
mass meeting, on the 2Jth inst,
two weeks from next Saturday.
Meantime, the people of Jeaner.
cite have become impatient, and
have commenced enrolling them,
selves, and on next Saturday they
will organize the first White
League in Iberia parish.
To those who wish to know
more of the principles of the new
organization, we recommend q
careful reading of two articles OH
the outside of this weeks Sugar
BOwl-one in English, headed
"Let us be United," aud one GU
the fourth (French) page by 20.
l.. d."
1t is quite common to hear
white people despairingly remark
that we are in a hopeless minority
in this State; but a contributor to
the Alexandria Caucasian has
recently written an able article,
in which he shows cOnclusively
that by the census of 1870 we had
a majority of white voters in Lou
iSiana and as We then had q
majority OF white male minors,
the natural inference is that to.
day we must have at least 10000
majority of white voters in the
State. Hence if white men only
do their duty, we will surely carry
the State at the next election.
The following is the call for the
grand mass meeting, to be held
in New Iberia on the 10Th inst,
which is now being signed by al
most the entire white population.
Doubtless this will he the grand
eat meeting ever held in the
place:
TO the White People Of the PoriSh
Of Iberia, Louisiana:
FELLOW CITIZENS The time
is near when the voting pOpula-
ton of our State and Parish will
again be called to the polls. to
select certain of their State and
ParOChial officers. love of liber
ty, honor and honesty, a proper
respect for ourselves, families and
friends, and the hope of retriev-
ing the fortunes of our State and
people, physically and morally,
demand, in tones that no true
nan can disregard, that our sloth
and indifference he cast aside
that we be up and doing. The
experience Of past years has dem.
onstrated that those who now
hold the government are incom.
petent to rule-that their admin
iStratiOn can but result in oppres.
sion and desOlatiOn-tllat from
their rule can come but corrnn.
ton, decentralization and degra~ !
datiOn in every department of ,
life. Look about you, and what {
dc you behold? Alas naupht
save %desOlated, abandoned and {
uncultivated fields, a disheart. +
ed, discouraged and disgraced +
peOple-the State bankrupt in d
fortune and in name. Can YOU ;
bear it longer, that negro igno. :
rance, sOliditied in opposition to ,
intelligence, and led by i
Carpet'bag and Scallawag imp9- I
dence and villaiDy, shall continue J
to hold the State, your fortunes |
and your honor, by the throat, !
while they perpetrate upon you v
lndlgnitles and crimes unparalel. J
Will you permit this with )
out an effort to drive back the I
robbers? For years the negroes J,
nave been organized in the inter il
est OF theic own race-for wears j
hey have persisteHtIy presented ~
ne issue to the white people J,
or years they have Rejected every ],
'fter of Cancellation and united L
'nort Ill favor OF good govern, - y
nent; you know the fact. You e
iannOt have been blind to it, K
What shall You do! We answer f
organise the white Leagwc! Our j.;
lister parishes of st. Landry. ~
lafayette, st. Martin, St. Mary n
nd others, have done so, and L.
heir white population is being L
Enthusiastically and rapidly mar. "
hailed into a compact mass, to do j,
attic at the polls for intelligence IL
good government. Shall the
of Iberia remain behind ? L;
else they will betray the II,
mandate entrusted to them by NJ
allure. No else their white Pc
lperiority will be but the aeon. A
lulatlon Of their weakness and an
lsgrace. No! organize the A.
White League in your midst. FIR
Fellow Citizens, the White =
eague has in view DO violation , |
law, State or Federal. 1t does /
propose to interfere with j
10 rights OF anyone. 1t does. ilq
)Wever, propose to meet, at tie r.,
'lIs, the issue presented by the IH,
'grO population. 1t does pro. AZ
use, by compact and legal action Jos
the part Of the whites, to force Te !
g government of the State from Err
e hands of that villainy and ig- w
rance which are running and Phi
sgracing both whites aud blacks. F Fr,
does propose TO snatch the Mic
from nOIiaipnI ,,o, w