The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-16
The Citizens Of CaddO and the Returning
Board.

At a very large meeting Of the most promi-
ncnt and influential citizens of the Parish of
Caddo, held at Shreveport on the 10th inst,
the following preamble and resolutions were
unanimously and enthusiastically adopted:
We have witnessed with INDICATION and
alarm the fixed purpose on the part OF an un-
scrupulous and partisan Returning Board,
through the machinery Of an infamous statute
70 deprive the people Of the fruits of glori-
GUS victory, won at the ballot-box, on the I'd
of November last. We know the result of that
election, as the ballots were counted at every
polling place, and We do not intend that it
Shall be reversed by clique of conspirators
and scoundrels.
The right of suffrage and the privilege Of
choosing our public servants are guaranteed
by the Constitution, and we cannot be de-
prived Of their exercise, either by their
fraudulent combination of individuals or the
failure Of officials, through willfulness or ig
norance, to perform their prescribed duties;
therefore,
Be it Reso'ya', That we. the white people
Of the parish OF Cuddc. in mass meeting as.
sembled, declare that we intend to be bound
alone by the verdict Of the people. expressed
at the ballot-box on the I'd day Of November.
1874, as announced by the commissioners Of
election, who counted the votes in the pres.
ence of the public and ut the polls. That we
proclaim it to be our fixed purpose to install
into their respective offices, on the LIST of JAM
uary, 1875, all the officers elected in this par
ish, whether they are SO returned by the Re-
turning Board or not.
And we call upon other parishes. and par
ticularly those Of North Louisiana, to take
similar action, pledging them our co-opeya.
ton and assistance.
Resolved, That we believe it to be the duty
Of the members Of the Legislature who were
elected by the Democratic and Conservative
parties to assemble at the State capitol in the
city Of New Orleans on the first Monday OF
January, 1875. in conformity with the re-
quirements of the Constitution, and organize
the General Assembly. That Caddo parish
pledges herself to furnish her quota of men
and money for the establishment and support
Of the legal government OF the State. That
we are law-abiding people, but we know our
rights, and as American freemen intend to
maintain them even at the peril OF our lives
and fortunes
The report of the United States Commits
sary Department, AS presented to the House
by the Secretary Of War. shows the cost Of
supplies as distributed in the States that sui.
fered from the overflow. to be as follows:
To Louisiana. Observation-Disclosures. $3.50 1S6
To Mis- .issippI. ...................... $685.
To Alabama. ..........-....-.--. 23.l23
Expense incurred in vurcha sing and dis.
tributins .,............ 1915
Total. ................... ...-.-... .3l1 .6.2
Amount received from sales Of bacon I'M.
properly distributed, but segalned
and sold. .................,. Gs5
Net total. -...-............-.,. .s31o. a46
The total debt Of the city OF New York OF
the 1st instant was SHIFTS. SIS, or less sink
ing fund than of S26 1873, 100, leaving as the !