The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1874-11-07
A Voice from the North-What
is Developed by Actual OBJ
servation,
Condition Of the South.

servation,
Condition Of the South. :.
on HORSEBACK THROUGH LOU
ISIANA.
From the Special Correspondent OF tho NC"
a.. York Daily Times.
NArcHlrocHEs, La,
wednesday, Oct. "A, 1874. :
There can be little doubt that the
Radical carpet. bassing officials were
working in their usual fashion to get
I'D an outrage, by exciting the anger
or tho apprelensions of the whites,
and getting tlom tn arm themselves
so as to place them on the windy side
of tho law. But the negroes fired on
and desperately wounded white
man, and 60 put themselves in the
very position In which they had de-
sired to put the white man, that il
to say "a tho first aggressors. Then
came the arrests, the departure from
Constants under 4 safeguard, the in
Perception by armed bands, and the
massacre. II has been believed up
North that this was q mere concerted
business, that the safeguard was a
blind, and that the massacre had
been arranged in Coushatta. But,
fortunately for the honor of the
American race, tho people of Cou-
shatta cannot be accased of this.
The circumstances of the case show
conclusively that the bloody deed
was ACHE ed without che participa.
ton even, much less with the knowl-
edge, Of the parties who arrested Ho-
mer Twitchell, the tax collector, and
his friends. = - - .
But there is not, and mover has been
since 1868, any dream Of battling
with the United States, or any thought
of denying the Federal authority.
Just as III Poland, under the influence
of the old ideas, every ten years or
SO there would he q revolution to
prevent tho Poles from getting salts
fed with the Romanoff rule, so, l be-
lieve, the leading party in North Lou
isiana blows the embers Of class feel
ing, and gets up a trouble. And, to
do thes, Justice, tho carpet-baggers
are every whit a, culpable. They
get up outrages, too, to make the
Federal Govetilment believe that the
old rebel element Il, atill active, and
that white Republicans cannot live in
Louisiana without the protection of
Uncle Sans uniformed nephews. "
1t might bs, ssid, that these things
being &c., sympathy would be wasted
on either party. But it is not so,
Besides the fact that the leaders Of
the white party ouly take this. stand
in North Louisiana, and nowhere else
in the State, it is andeniable that the
Radicals have plundered this people
beyond endurance. In Jupe last no
less than 600, 600 worth Of property
was advertised for sale for uapaid
taxes III Natchitoches Parish. This
was the last straw upon the camel's
hack. The citizens rose en- saasse,
compelled all the officials tn resign.
Up to 1870 the Police, Jury had
provided for the expenses Of the
parish by assessment, according to
what was required. But q ring was
formed To 1863, If which the Boss
Tweed seems to have been Dr.. Boullt,
the Tax Collector. He saw bis way
to fortune, little warrants tssned by
parish could be sued for and iudg.
ment entered against that parish.
The law gays no. such power, but he
aud lis. friends procured In the Log
islature that year the following en-
actlnsnt: hero follows the law. re-. !,
Dr.. Bodllt now couuseled the Police
Jury tall.begrees) that the best way
to do woa'3 u to:make no estimate
for 1870, batlst 4 pay in warrants
and sue for them in patches. Having
had lis eldest son appointed to the
position Of Psrish Judge, tone Of the
courts in which suits would be pre-:
ferred, J " Bchllt WIS ready The
milch con W. IN 'tas paddock; md
nothing ,lelpailyd hat to milk her.
Proceedings M6ie commenced by in
creasing the pauper list from 20 to
40. ltwas tho custom In Natchito-
ches Parish to support all paabers by
q monthly allowance, and to have no
prison for them. This is q remnant
Of old French customs, for with the
Creoles the Indulgence Of Old tge or of
misfortune haslnevsr.i been consider
ed crime, and has not been render
ed additionally bitter By abise aid
insalt. The, monthly stipend was
five dollars, and tho recipients were
four white men, all cripplss, and six,
teen negroes, oil either MANNED OF
too old to labor. The Police Jury
swelled this list by l60 additional
members but - they kept no books
the only 'case - to the honesty Of the
transaction or the actual existeuce of
the behe6ciaries would be furnished
BY the statistics Of tho warrant book
Al for the warrants themsAlvea. nDth-