The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-01-13

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10 the chair, aud briefly stated the OBJ
ject Of the meeting,
On motion Of Judge j. j, Good, DR.,
Cutler aud u, w, Baylorwere appoint
cd secretaries,
On motion OF Mr., Barnett Clubs,
the following gentlemen we're selected
~ vice presidents
Alfred Davis W \ Cabell
Fbanger w " hhhlon
NJ D Warrington W.ICiark
Nc u DOWan IM Wheat
! y Caldwell GEORGE w Baylor
John Kerr q y hlephenson
n Adams EPl.yle
Jules y schneider " Murphy
w " lluAhea w II Prather
u u Grove Eh Gay
Il u Tompklna ue0rge shields
u Il LuGe Jf Elliott
N Gilman ID KerloOt
w A Jones i A Work
4 N Mlrn W hwlndella
John Lockwood hlnA Hare
III bnrkAdnla " hafltey
j l. Downs Thomas Yields
w a Randall DF Jelt
A u ObunChaln W Wohl
"a DOelling w A Rogers
n u Mayea William Cameron
DIR hoy hcOlt l'ranl Austin
\ q pOytOn John III Brown
j II hofugga M " FRANKLIN
The chair appointed the following
committee on resolutions: ID. w,
shannon, j. L, Caldwell, J., II, Bark
ley, Charles Stevens, w. w. Peak and
j. j, Good.
Judge Good being called for, made
one OF his happiest efforts, renewing
the history of civil liberty and de-
nounced Grant and Shcrldan's con-
duct.
The committee on resolutions,
through Colonel shannon, reported
the following resolutions which We're
adopted;
RESOLUTIONS.
The committee, to whom IL referred
the report Of resolutions, for the action
Of this meeting, In regard to the con-
duet of General Sheridan, In dispers-
Ing members from the house OF repre-
sentatives. In the state of Louisiana,
beg leave TO state:
Fllsb--bthcIhi Dhtlldhni w MS in-
reference with the organization of the
lower branch of the legislature of the
state Of Louisiana, violated a prlncl-
pie that Is sacred, and therefore at war
with the spirit of free government.
Second-Legislatures are the law
making powers, and, by their nature
free, have alone the undoubted right
to judge of the qualifications Of their
own members. These rights are priv
ileges which the kings Of England dare
not trench upon, and in these states
are coeval with the republic.
Third-General Sheridan, in asking
the president to declare the white peo.
pie of Louisiana u part OF what Is
known in military parlance, as the de-
partment of the gulf, to be bandit,
violated u rule of human nature, AS no
people in christendon can be, by pro-
fession, murderers and outlaws.
Fourth--The south claims to be. rs
she Is, u part of n common country,
entitled to the rights and immunities
of common citizenship.
Fifth-The tumult caused by General
Sheridan may be viewed to teign mo-
tives to upturn our form of govern
ment, and, in that event, we do de-
clare that no king,no dictator, no mat
ter what guise may be put on, can be
elevated to despotic and arbitrary pow
or In the United States.
Sixth-We are loyal to the govern
ment of these states as recognized by
public law. The civil war with its
woes is left to history, but we do pro-
test against past events being made a
cloak to cover acts of tyranny, vio-
lence and fraud, in the teeth of the
public opinion of the age.
Appealing, therefore, to God and our
common country we hereby protest
against the acts of General Sheridan as
opposed to freedom, to justice, to truth
and the liberties of the people, which
in the United States were wruDg from
an arbitrary king, and established as a
common heritage.
During the evening number of gen.
tlsmen addressed the meeting, among
them Judge Good, Colonel ID. w.
Shannon, Judge Silas Hare, Barnett
Gibbs, e. II. Jenkins, w. S. Oldham,
J. +. Caldwell, Richard Morgan and
others.
w. S. Oldham offered the following
resolution, which was adopted unan-
imously:
Resolved, That the legislature of the
state of Texas be requested to instruct
the members of the house of represent
tatives and the senators from Texas in
the United States congress to enter
their solemn protest against General
Sheridan's action in his Louisiana
usurpation, and protest aga inst the ex-
pulsion of the members of the legisla-
ture of our sister state by federal sol
diers.
Upon motion the meeting adjourned.