The People's vindicator., 1874-06-27
The Republican on the People s
Meeting.

Meeting.
Under the caption of "rhc People
, Mceting' the Republican, she'
: published in this city in the interes
J and representing the views Of tn
, "powers that be-" has al article, if
can be dignifed by such IN appella
! ton, upon the action of the citizen
, who assembled in our city two week
since; and as VIC are aware, that til
circulation of that sheet is very limit
ed among that class Of persons, til
tax payers, who composed that meet
: ing, we think it>but proper to give
a little ventilation.
1t says, the ayowed object of tn
meeting was to adopt measures tt
stop the unnecessary expenditure o
funds by the Police Jury, and inaugu
rate means to decrease the burden 0
taxation-but mark you, the declared
object was the personal abuse Of "of-
iiccrs in power" and that this wa:
evinced by the series Of resolutions
promulgated, and by the Language
and style of address used by the speak
ers on the occasion; to quote fully
its language, "by appealing to the
excited feelings of the people to arouse
them to acts of violence, against such
officials"
This is all "bosh' rs that Journal
well knows. Will it please explain
to the satisfaction of the people,
why (9 they are excited' They admit
that we are, and intimate that we have
Just cause to be excited. We will
tell you Mr.. Republican, and we gain
say your denial of the facts, why
the people are aroused. They have
awake1 to q just sense of their duty,
and they are just beginning to realize
the dreadful condition they have been
drifting to by the acts of your Re-
publican rulers, and that they have
been shamelessly and Systematically
plundered by your officials.
We defy you to point to one off,
cial act Of the Republican party in
this parish for the past four years,
intended to benefit the Taxpayer or
to meliorate the condition of any
class Of our citizens.
Examine the records of the pro-
ceedings of your intelligent, your good,
your loyal Police Jnries, and what do
you find in the mass of Senegambian
Dr. idiotic legislation, any act passed
to benefit the parties who pay the
money to support your officers? What
ire toll and road bridges, your map
md immigration contracts? Open
'windles or steals, done in defiance
If law and the protest of all decent
,eople of the parish, both black and
White; it is useless to say they were
lot put in effect, that the courts had
lecided them fraudulent, the onerous
egislation lies at your door, and the
PRESSURE of public opinion, the opin-
on Of those who assembled in mass
Meeting on the 18th inst, and who
meet again to-day, and to whom you
proceeded to read a lecture upon their
uties as peaceable citizens, and in.
mated that no "real" wrongs existed
Dr. which they should demand redress;
hat forced your courts to destroy the
fleets of such legislation. You must
stand the point" nor will the peo-
10 allow your party to claim the vir-
1e of necessity. ;
Look at the squander of public
'onies to bogus paupers and favorites;
nd here lies one of the most outra.
pous and long continued robberies in
10 whole lot, under the name of al
'wances to pauper funds and pay for
'ntingent expenses, thousands, aye,
nsof thousands of dollars were stolen
your individuals in Office" under Z
lch tlimsy guises as, warrants upon
| empty Treasury to paupers long
nee dead or who. had only existed Il
name, in the minds of your "po. {
;ical leaders," at the rate Of over a
ousand dollars per month, and there l
at this moment paupers who are
ing allowed, by tlat model, that ii
lew" Police Jury, paying salcries for Il
ing mendicants. There are in q
'lgments obtained against the par p