New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-10-28
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asys OUT . brisk campaign. Tho success o.
Che White Peoples ticket 10 II accomplish
Ill shisge Taxes are - be paid when The
sscple are able. Men Who DO NOT vote With
che White Lesgucss are - bs 0arked. II
aayG
Il the White Yeopie's sickes succseds. the
e.xes new dse ios the payment Of An illegal
Aebt Will be closely scrutinize6, cut down,
~ 0epudiate3 in toto. while y Legislature
i sympathy with the people, would post
oOaS tho collection of those that are legally
due - suck time ~ tho property holders
Oere oble 60 pay. Everything depends then
anon our success in this election. Andlffef-
0ncs at Q crisis like this is not only culpa-
Ole, but it 10 crime thas will certainly
deceive . Just punishment in the future.
Down then With oil croAkers; they are con-
Amptible in the eyes Of honest men strug-
cling fOy everything that 10 near and dear
% maa. The battle is not to the strong
aAons, but the active, the vigilant, the brave.
Put ~ ysuH armour, be up and doing, do
Oh in your power, battle long and faithfully,
40 every means that is in your power to
carry the election and tho Peoples ticket,
che ticket Of low taxes, reform and honesty
will triumph oyer the party Of ruin and
Twenty days are left TO work in, and if
che white people are true to themselves and
their cause, victory such as will cheer the
the dropping spirits, and broken he's rts Of
Che people for years to come will crown our
efforts. Let every man do his duty, his
ShOlo duty, and be not satisfied until he
has found from one to five cOlOPed men
who will vote with him at the polls. ftcan
b DONE must be done, and will be done
Sv every ono that is true to tho cause Of
his country. CO to work and see what can
b done, and mark the man that is indiffer
ont as public enemy. in the interest of the
uegrses and the carpst-baggsTs. The white
man chat does not register and vote is .
81 his wife aud children, and deserves t. be
suled forever by negroes.
IN the Shreveport ZSmss appears An I'd.
dfess 10 she people. It encourages the
people 70 persist in che intimidstion Of
R.puhlican votefs by threatening to dis.
0napse from employment such ss exercise
the sight 70 vote rs they please. It also
advises the people to stand firm in the new
sebellion:
The position assumed BY our merchants
and property-holders has had it's effect
upon the negro dupes Of the thieves who
dead the Radical party; it has opened their
eyes, and many of them have determined to
vote with their best friends-the white
people. The object Of this movement Of the
KeIlOggites and federal authorities is
simply to coun:eract the influence Of this
movement upon the negroes; it is to in
timidato the gentlemen who entered into
the agreement to protect themselves and
force them to Withdraw from il; to make
them slink out of brave and proper &C
Zion by threatening them with the terrOrs Of
arrests and confinement in stOckades and
Of federal courts as they exist in Louisiana
II this e accomplished and our people back
down, the negroes will become Insulting,
arrogant and intOlerable, led BY their
chiefs, they will literally ride rough shod
over the community and this section Of the
State will be carried by them in the elec-
tion. This is what this proceeding means
nothing more nor less.
Ii these men, fellow-citizens, make this
ISSUE. force them to develop the dastarnly
outrage an its full proportions, that the
whole country may zee it in all it's hideuus
ness. Our word tor II. no one will remain
IN General Merrill's stockade or guardhouse
many hours after the news of the Oatrage
Is telegrAphed North and East.
Citizens. stand firm; dispatches have
already been cent over the United States in
relation to the threatened outrage upon
yonr rights and liberty, and the eyes of the |
American people are upon you. Your &C.
lion in this matter now will excite the sym.
pathy or derision Of the country, accnrl-
lnglv as 1t is courageous and manly or weak
and contemplate.
You are not alone; the whole community
supports sou. Lists are now circulating
the city pledglng the signers
to the same line OF action you agreed upon.
One hundred additional names have been
signed, and every man in Shreveport will |
share your responsibilities. The planters !
Of Summer Grove, Spring Ridge, Green.
wood and Nlooripgsport neighborhoods |
have unanimously signed similar pledges.
Even the ladies of our city are signing |
cards that will make them as guilty rs you
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