The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1874-07-18
The White League.
ITS PLATFORM IN FULL.
A MANLY AND STRAITFORWARD DOCU.
MENT.
From the ". O. Picayune, l.

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It having been alleged or implied
that tho White League is a secret Or
ganization, and therefore open to adj
verse criticism and remonstrance, We
have concluded to publish iu full Che
address of the Crescent City White
League, a manly, simple, patriotic do.
cument, whereof We gave synopsis
in our edition of yesterday. lift con.
tains one proposition on which every
honest, well-meaning citizen Of Louis.
lana cannot unite, we are unable t0
discover it ; if there is one principle
in all its compass which initiates
against truth, reason or our common
advancement aud prosperity, we can.
not point it out.
We submit the platform of the Cries.
cent City White League, believing
that it can and will be made the plat
form of the white race in Louisiana
The Crescent City Democratic Club
of]s6s;; having changed its name to
that of"Crescent City White League"
has thought that all explanation was
due alike to its retired members
and to the people of New Orleans of
the motives ola change so seriously
and so sadly suggestive:
It may he stated that the elements
of personal character aud of general
purpose in the club haye undergone
no change since its origin. Our men,
bers, with but few losses or accessiOns,
are the same as for many years past,
and We feel ourselves animated al
ever by the same earnest determine
ton to strive in the task Of practical
politics to establish and maintain
such government in the State and
city as shall guard the liberties of the
citizen, his business and tho accumu.
lations of his industry.
Our fellow. citizens will permit us
to recall with just pride our siren
uous and persistent efforts in this be.
half, though they have again and
again been ;prostrated by the fatal
intrusion of i high hand whose VIC.
lence was stronger than our rights
All our struggles had been hitherto
conducted under the ancient banner
Of Democracy, to which we shall eve,
look for guidance in all national con.
tests. But we are now fast drifting
to a conflict bounded by the limits q
the State, and which the men of Louis.
lana alone must settle, if justice and
fair play shall rule and not Fedora
violence. 1t is a conflict not invol.
wing a single issue upon which or
honest Republican can possibly diff
fer as such from an honest Democrat
a conflict the decision of which W,
would confidently and gladly remit tt
the votes Of the very Radicals of New
England, nay to any body of civilized
men in the world for it is a contlic
between virtue and depravity-be
tween enlightenment and thick IT,
norance, between civilization and bar
barism-a barbarism artifcially slim
ulated and held up by the perverted
authority of the most civilized natio1
in the world a civilization whose CT,
not for help against threatened des
truction, but for mere fair play il
maintaining itself, is answered from
Washington by insults and a blow
In this dire emergency the Nationa
Democracy is powerless to afford re-
lief. The National Republican party
absorbed in its dream of future do
mination, and Quarreling over presen
schemes Of finance, has forgotten
that there is such an outlying pro
vince as Louisiana, which it nigh
rescue from perdition and disgrac,
for the sake Of the good name Of the
National Commonwealth.
Need we draw a picture of our ut.
ter desolation :? Need We point OF
the one hand to our devastated fields
our warning commerce, our idle work
shops, our decreasing population, oul
increasing taxes, our pauper multi
tudcs, pensioners on alien charity