The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-08-22
MASS MEETING OF CADDO PARISH.

MASS MEETING OF CADDO PARISH.
One of the largest, most earnest and
most enthusiastic meetings ever held
in Caddo took place in Shreveport on
Wednesday last. The place of meet
ing was the extensive warehouse of
Stacey IL Poland, in the center of
which had been fitted up II stand for
the accommodation of the officers OF
the meeting and orators. People be-
gan to pour into the city early in the
morning, and when the hour for speak
ing arrived there were more than fif-
teen hundred people present. Colonel
p. w. II. Cumming was elected to pre-
side. On motion of Judge w. A. Seay,
a committee of six was appointed to
prepare resolutions. Pending the re-
port of the committee on resolutions
Colonel r. ii. Marr, of New Orleans,
was introduced to the meeting and ad-
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-
lutions presented its report. We re-
gret that the length of these resolu-
tions-eighteen in number--debars Us of
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 intolerable
despotisms the world has ever seen,
robbed and plundered to an extent
never before dreamed of under govern
ments calling themselves free, to-day
make known the sentiments by which
we are animated, and our determina-
ton to free ourselves from so Calling Il
bondage and so degrading "A subjuga-
ton. We have lived to see the finest
spot on earth turned into wilderness
under the domination of the party
which, for several years past, has had
control of every department of the
state and federal governments. We
have been robbed and pundered by
radical officials and by radical taxation
and have been driven to the alterna-
tive of emigration, ruin or resistance.
A state debt, once purely nominal, has
been raised to over S4O, ,O0O,OOO, aud cor
responding taxation to meet It's eXl-
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 works-nothing hut
desolation, decay and death all around
us. Our commerce lauguishes, our i'll
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 all 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 S4O, 900, 900 stolen from our
impoverished people have gone into the
pockets of negroes, renegades ana ad-
venturers, who ac. as if they were in-
vested with the privilege of despoi!ing
the people of Louisiana of their sub
stance and their most cherished rights.
If we attempt to substitute the gov
ernment of the people of Louisiana for
q government of usurpers, the federal
government, with its fixed bayonets,
steps in, and, for nearly two years, has
supported u usurpation which, without
such support, could never have had an
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
kept under pay and been sent among
quiet and law-ablding people, under
whose auspices, rape, robhcry ana MUIR
der have been committed in open day
light and in defiance of law aud of
justice.
These things call loudly for redress,
and the white people of the state of
Louisiana have determined that they
will submit no longer to such outrages
and to such usurpation.
After the resolutions were voted upon
and unanimously adopted, Colonel
Cumming, in q few appropriate re-
marks, introduced Governor John Me-
Emery. The Times, from which our
account of the meeting is condensed,
says:
His appearance upon the platform
was the occasion for the most un-
bounded enthusiasm, cheer upon cheer
rending the air. His speech was con-
else and pointed, he being greeted with
marked applause throughout its entire
length, the interest seeming to grow
greater, as it were, as he continued.
His words will long be remembered by
his hearers, and if his advice be acted
upon, the day is not far distant when
Louisiana will be free from the fatal
embrace of carpetbaggers and scala
wags.
The brave men of Caddo may rest
calmly on the assurance that there Is
not an honest heart in Texas that does
not beat responsively to their prayers
for deliverance, and that IL anything
more than our sympsthies should be
needed it will be found ready at any
hour.
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