The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-10-24
address. 90 the oi,i.on. Of shreveport,


the Kellogg usllrpntl0n, ARE ~ this mo-
ment preparing allldNyilsNnd warrants
on which to have slXly'ilye or seventy
Of our most prominent citizens arrest
cd, The only charge that can bo made
against the proposed Victims Of this
pending outrage, IN that they have Ob-
ligated themselves no longer To retain
In their employ men who persist IN
voting ny they have done In years past
for cnrpetbag, scolnwng aud negro
thieves, who have, by corrupt nlislllc
boggared the state aud rendered prop
erly literally valueess. In other words,
their only crime Is that they propose
to discharge from their employ aud
hire whom they please, and IN the eN-
crclse OF this lain and simple right OF
freemen 10 protect themselves from
exorbltant taxation, plunder aud final
ruin.
That the arrest OF the gentlemen who
entered into this agreement, and prob
ably of Others, " 10 be made by federal
authority, backed 10y the federal army,
ana that the processes for the infamous
work ure now being prepared, we have
lllt iAIltNf VI ifilhtNiNi
General Merrill, commanding this de-
partnent, and a. b. Loyisee, United
States commissioner Tor this district.
Now, this IL u hold and nudaclous
game of intimidation in the Interest Of
the Kellogg usurpati0n, but If our pe0.
pie are firm and resolved, If they have
the backbone 10 sustain their own nc
ton, if they are true aud brave men,
the dastardly programme viii be
beaten, and the outrage made 10 react
with fearful power upon the perpetra-
tors
The position assumed by our mer-
chants and property holders has had
its effect upon tie negro dupes of the
thieves who lend the radical party it
has opened their eyes, and many of
them have determined to vote with
their best lriends--the white people.
The object of this movement of tho
Kelloggites and federal authorities Is
simply to counterfeit the influence of
this movement upon the negroes; it is
to intimidate the gentlemen who en-
tered into the agreement to protect
themselves, and force them to with
draw from IL; to make them stink out
of y brave and proper action by threat
ening them with the terr0rs Of arrests
and confinement in stockades and of
federal courts as they exist in Louis
lana. If this Is accomplished and our
people back down, the negroes will be-
come insulting, arrogant and intolera-
BILE; lead by their chiefs, they will lit
orally ride rough-shod over the COM
munity, and this section of the state
will be carried by them in the election.
This is what this proceeding means
nothing more nor less.
Let every man, them of whom il is
proposed to made a Uictim in this mat
ter, stand resolutely by his action, and
meet all Its consequences with the cour-
age of freeman, and with II freeman's
determination to main his rights.
The purpose of the authorities is,
without doubt, to propose to release
the prisoners on bail. If this PROPOSE
ton is accepted. and the prisoners i'm
mediately released the end of the au-
thorities will be obtained, the influence
of the action of the citizens upon the
negroes will be destroyed, and there
will be no indignation excited in the
north. In other words we will be cap
tured, and this is precisely what is ex-
pected 10y Merrill and Levisee to be
accomplished.
Therefore we advise our people
those of them who are arrested--to re-
fuse to give any bond, to treat the ar
rest, as II Is, rs u scandalous outrage,
without law and without Justice. We
advise them to force these men to re-
tire from this thingor to carry it to its
full consequences, and then let the
American people judge whether, ten
years after the surrender of the south
ern armies, after Louisiana has been
recognized as state and as part and
parcel of the union, while there is no
hostility within the borders to the fed
eral government, and when her own
civil authorities can execute the laws,
a brigadier general and u United States
commissioner, candidate for state of
flee, surrounded by cavalry and infan-
try, can arrest and imprison our citi.
2ens because they choose to exercise a
right exercised in every other section
of the union and in every other section
| VI Wv NA'iahSu NOius II llltSt men,
fellow-citizens, make this issue, force
them to develop the dastardly outrage
in its full proportions, that the whole
country may see it in all its hideous-
ness. Orr word for it, no one will re-
main in Geueral Merrilps stochade or
guard house many hours after the news
of the outrage is telegraphed north and
east.
Citizens, stand firm; dispatches have
already been sent over the United
States in relation to the threatened
outrage upon our rights and liberty,
and the eyes of the American people
are upon you. Your action IN this
matter now will excite the sympathy
OF derision of the country, accordingly
as it Is courageous aud manly or weak
and contemptible.
You are not alone; the whole COM
nudity supports you. Lists are now
circulating throughout the city pledg-
ing the signers to the same line or ac.
ton you agreed upon; one hundred adj
dlti0nal names have been signed, and
every mau In Shreveport will share
your responsibilities. The planters of
Summer Grove, Spring Ridge, Green
wood and MooriDgsport neighborhoods