The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1874-09-05

Address to the People Of Red
River and our Adjoining SIS
tor Parishes.
We the people Of Red River Parish
DO hereby tender to our neiglbors
and friends II our adjourning parishes
our sincere and heartfelt thanks AID
everlasting gratitude for the prompt
and efficient aid rendered Us at q time
when a serious rist was eminent,
which We believe was only prevented
by tho uuprecedent prompt action
and determination Of our friends CO.
operating with our true sons
In ton or twelve hours We had
thousand brave spirits ready and de-
teruiued with their lives to assist US
in defending our homes wives and
children-we owe to you kind friends
4 deep and lasting debt Of gratitude.
To the colored people We have to
say that our action in the present
instance must fully convince you Of
the sincerity Of our repeated declar-
atoms that "onr war; was only against
such Of you as are silly and vicious
enough to combine with the horde Of
scallawsgs and ocsrpet-baggers who,
like vultures, have been preying upon
our people for eight long years, aud
whose yoracity seems to be insatiable.'
70 all such We give fair warning. To
) those who want peace, aud the re-
demption Of Louisiana We guarantee
ample protection in the full and free
exercise Of all their civil and political
rights under the law, and We earnest.
" request you to 80. peacibly and
quietly to work. Some Of the bad,
white men who have been for years
intoxicating vicious ideas into the
minds of the colored people of Red
River, and arraying them against the
true interest Of the country, the white
people and their own, were arrested
for their completely in cold-blooded
murderous assassination upon our es-
Unable citizen Joseph B. Dixon.
They have rendered their designations
and left this morning at their own
earnest prayer and request under a
guard Of our best citizens selected by
themselves, to depart from the State,
promising never to return as will he
seen by their statement hereto annex
ed.
T. W. Abney, President Executive
Committee, T. e. Paxton, G. B. Will
]isms, J. w. Sandiford, w. A. Perry,
J. Pierson, J. Lisso, L. E. Love, C. D.
Bullock, J.F. Stephens, D. NJ. Gid
dens, E. w. Rawle, A. 8. B. Pior, B.
S. Leo, VS. Williams, G. w. Cav
thon, B. G. Kenny, j. Howard, j. p.
Hya.ns, H. 8. Bosley, VIM. Sprowl, r.
D. Champion, and five hundred more.
CoUsHArrA, La, Aug. %, 1874.
We the undersigned officers of Red
River and DcSoto Parishes, now re-
siding in Red River parish, La, tes-
tify to the following statement:
That we here propose on our part
to leave the State IF ILL.,, and surren-
der to tho people the offices We hold
and here request All escort Of citizens
to protect us out Of the State. We
further testify that tho leading citi-
zens Of the political organization of
the white people here, used all their !
efforts to protect our lives aud dis
coantenanced and opposed the efforts
Of any violence towards us in any
way.
r. A. Devices, Tax Collector of
DeSoto, F. s. Edgertou, Sheriff Red
River Parish, II. j. Twitchell, Tax
Collector Red River Parish, Clark
Holland, Supervisor of Registration
Red River Parish and w. F. Howell.
Given under my hand and seal of
office this Goth day Of Aug. 1874.
J. P. HYAMS,
Clerk District Court.
Since the above extra has been
published, it is said that whilst those
parties, with the escort Of their own
selection, were about to take dinner at
Mr.. Hutchinson's place, midway be-
tween Coushatta and Shreveport, they
we're pursued for eight miles, over,
taken and surrounded by . body of
five hundred unknown men, supposed
to DO Texans. Their body guard
cndsavored to get away, protect and
save the lives of the unfortunate men,
but force prevailed, and the men ia.
ken away from them, and it is said,
slain.
Such ~ occurrance, if true; is de.
plorabse indeed. And to say that
such scenes Of blood are the bitter
fruits Of Radical robbery, oppression
and tyranny, Of eight long years du-
ration, which have driven the people
Of the South to desperation and mad.
uess! It Ia the result Of the War.
moth and Kellogg administrations
Of ruin, taxation, spoliation, false
hood, perjury; Of judicial corruption
and infanay, high and low; 81 vic.
leace, backed BY Gaslin guns and
Federal Interference /; Of the ignorance ,
and prejudices Of tho colored race,
worked mon and inflanad aoainat !