The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-08-15
por congres.-rhira DIslrir,
HON, JAMES W, YHROCRMORTON,
~ CoiIin.
mAss lMEkrisa on cADDo pAalsIL

MANS NETTING OfCADb0 FA"iS'
Ondof the largeAt most earnest ana
most entmlAlastIc meetings ever held
IN Catdo took place III Shreveport on
"Wednesday last. Tho place OF meet
Ing was the extensive warehouse OF
Stacey n Poland, In the center OF
which had been fitted upa stand for
the accommodation OF the officers Of
the meeting aud orators. People be-
gan TO pour Into the city early In the
morning, aud when the hour for speak
ing arrived there were more than iif-
teen hundred people present, Colonel
p. w. II. Cumming was elected 10 pre-
side. On motion OF Judge w. A. Seay,
o committee OF six was appointed TO
prepare resolutions. Pending the re-
port Of the committee on resolutions
Colonel r. II. Mari, of New Orleans,
was introduced TO the meeting and adj
dressed the large audience for more
than an hour with great force and elo-
quence. AT the conclusion OF Colonel
Marr's speech the committee on reso-
lutlons presented Its report. We re-
gret that the length OF these resolu-
tlons--elghteen In number-.debars usof
the pleasure OF reproducing them In
the columns Of THE HERALD. The
spirit that breathes through all the
resolutions Is well indicated In the
preamble, which was rs follows
We, the people Of the parish Of Cad
do, In mass meeting assembled, suffer-
ing under one OF the most inloleraDie
despotsms the world has ever seen,
robbed and plundered TO mn extent
never before dreamed Of under govern
ments calling themselves free, to-day
make known the sentiments by which
we are animated mud our determine
ton TO free ourselves from 80 CALLING u
bondage and so degrading n subjuga-
ton. We have lived 10 see the finest
spot on earth turned into u wilderness
under the domination OF the party
which, for several years pnst, hns had
control OF every department. OF the
state and federal governments. We
have been robbed and plundered by
radical officials and 10y radical taxation
and have been driven to the nlterna-
tive Of emigration, ruin or resistance.
A state debt, once purely nominal, has
been raised TO over SAC, 0OO, 900, and cor
responding taxation to meet It's eXi'
gences has reduced us to bankruptcy,
to desolation and TO ruin. If we could
point to railroads or other works of inn
prOvement as the result of our eXpend-
lures, we might submit TO them
with some kind of gracefulness.
But, under the radical rule, we
have no railroads, we have no canals,
we have no public w0rks-nothlng but
desolation, decay aud death all around
us. Our commerce languishes, our in
dustrial resources are dead, immigra-
ton shuns us as the dead sea, the fair
est cline under the sun is n desert,
which our prosecutors call peace. Our
taxation Is two thousand per cent high
er than IT was In the hey-day Of our
prosperity, and for oil this we have
nothing to show In the Increase OF our
material welfare. We have only the
dreadful realization brought home TO
us that the $40, 900, 600 stolen from our
impoverished people havegone into the
pockets of negroes, renegades and adj
venturers, who act as If they were in
vested with the privilege Of despoiling
the people of Louisiana of their sub.
stance and their most cherished rights.
a. W. up W. sHs 81 nu, .e s1 ,or
a government Of us,lrpers. the federal
government, with its fixed bayonets,
steps In, ana, for nearly TWO years, has
suppor.eu usurPa,ion whicn, w,.nou.
existence. Under this government the
acme of corruption, of incompetency
and villainy has been reached. The
peoples lands have been wrenced from
them, under the hammer of the tax
gatherer, until many of them have
scarcely the ordinary means OF subsis
tence. A standing state army has been
kent under pay and been sent among a
quiet and 1aw-abiding people. under
whose auspices, rape, robbery and MUIR
der have been committed in open day.
light and In defiance of law and Of
Justice.
These things call loudly for redress,
anu ne wni.e people OF the s.ate o,
will submit no longer 70 such omtrages
and to such usurpation.
After the resolutions were voted upou
md unanimously adopted. Colonel
Cumming. In few annronriate re.
marks. introduced Governor .Jobn Me-.
avn, ",o" o"'