The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1888-08-25
The ADsestile Revolution.
IT'S ORIGIN AND RESULTS.

30 many Conflicting reports having
gone abroad concerning the state 81
affairs existing here. and IN many
instances connecting these occurren
ccs with the unfortunate riot in Free.
town. we deem it necessary TO
promptly correct them.
Abbeville, like all towns Of its
size, had a certain number Of vile,
vicious and undesirable citizens. SO
long as they conducted themselves
with some slight regard for the Or
binary proprieties Of common &c,
ccncy, the good people put up with
their presence. Of late, however.
their numbers had Increased, meas
urabiv so by the influx Of similar
characters from the surrounding
country and towns. Then they grew
bold and insolently detied all rules
and rights Of propriety. After a
little consultation among the leading
men Of town, it was resolved that
these "hard citizens should be re.
Qnested to emigrate. and how it vas
done is well and trutifully por.
trayed in the following special to
the Picayune
On Friday night. the 10th, the reg.
ulators whipped certain parties here
in town, ard on Saturday night they
made another tour. The parties
whipped we're Migrants and prosti.
tutes and that class Of characters.
On Saturday night they went to q
house where a white woman and a
negro man lived together openly.
When they tried to open the door
of the house some one fred from
within, wounding one of the regula.
tors. The party shot is not seriously
hurt, and is improving. No one
else has been shot or seriously hurt.
The report that one regulator was
killed is entirely false.
The trouble rose out Of the fact
that this place has been infested
with a low down class Of characters
whose presence could not longer be
endured, consequently a mass meet
ing composed of 400 or 500 of the
better element Of the citizens, both
white and black, was held here on
Tuesday, the l4tb, and passed a
resolution deploring the fact that
there was such a state Of affairs, and
pledging themselves to support any
action necessary to rid this commu.
nifty of that element without resorting
to violence, and required the au.
thorities to enforce the law OF
vagraucy.
There is no real conflict, nor
does politics or anything of that
kind have any relation to or cut
any figure whatever in this move
nient. 1t is q spontaneous move.
ment Of the people, white aud col
orcd, for the purpose above stated.
In pursuance Of the resolution adop.
ted, o committee of eighteen men
were appointed, six white from the
town, six white from the country,
and six colored men, who went
around and notified obnoxious char.
acters to leave the parish, given
them a limited time in which to do
so, and warning them that if they
did not leave they would be whip.
ped out Of the country. The only
party whipped by that committee
was a white man, the colored mem
bers standing 10y aud seeing it done.
That party was ordered to leave.
The committee finished its labors Of
notifying and all parties notified,
some Of whom are white, have left.
There has been no serious disturb
ance or outbreak as rumcred, much
less anything like a.race conflict or
any necessity for the militia. The
people of the parish and the au.
thorlties here can and do manage
their own affairs. Everything is.as
quite as can be. The movement is
more of an industrial aud moral
reformation than anything else.
n. Jovis, the French aeronaut,