The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1874-10-03
The Crisis.
From the Louisville Courirr-JOurnAl. !

From the Louisville Couricr-JournAl1
The present crisis illustrates all Of
the positions from time to time laid
down in the Couricr-Journal, au( that
most torcibly. 1t illustrates the ruin
GUS character of the Radical policy.
at the same time that it illustrates the
hopeless character Of violent rcsis-
lance Oh the part Of the South. The
South has never realized the fact of
its thorough and complete subiuga:
ton. The North has been steadily
deluded BY the fiction Of nationality
put forward bya partisan oligarch.y
intensely proscriptive, sectional and
despotic. There has been 10 free
dom, in the broad republican sense,
since the war at the South. There
has been merely the pretcnse Of it.
Between the negro and tho Demo
cratic party, the scheme Of peace
FIJI and equitable reconstruction Of
society has fallen to the ground. The
North has been misled by the negro.
The South has been misled by the
Democratic party. The result is a
passage of arms in which We find
the great city Of New Orleans arraycd
against the Federal Government, the
whole South and half the North ar
IDENTIFY sympatlizing with tho revo-
lutionists, the army and navy, COM
manded by q dominant political fac
ton, siding with usurpation and cor
ruption, and organized to suppress IN
honest, conservative, commercial me-
tropolis.
The end, as far as q passage at
arms is concerned, can not be doubt.
ed. 1t is settle in advance by the
simple law of force against force
The power which put down fifteen
States will not balk before one ; the
letter of the law is plain the Radical
party not merely has u legal pretext.
but it has a malignant inclination aud
a partisan interest in measures the
most vigorous, no matter how arro-
CANT, destructive and unjust.
lfGoy. Penn and his advisers and
followers proceeded under the idea
that the full power of the Federal
Government would not he put forth
to crush the revolt in which the peo-
pie of Louisiana are engaged, they
made q woful mistake. If they un-
derstood this, the logical CONSEQUENCE G
of their movement must be bold
and resolutc resistance, by which, If
they hold out long enoagh, they can
force the addition Of at least fifty mil
lions to the national debt, and may,
in the end, paecipitate a general civil
war. They have nothing to lose,
aud everything to gain, by carrying
out the measure Of revolution they
have begun. If they do not, they
are mere rioters, exposed to vindic-
tive prosecutions for murder. In the
meantime the honest mes of both
parties know that Penn, as the repre-
representative Of the people of Louis
lana, is right, and that the Kellogg
usnrpation is worse than any of the
villainies practicel by European des-
potism in Ireland, Poland, Hungary
Or Venice the last fifty years.
lfGov. Penn backs down, and il
his followers dispense in response to
a proclamation which was q certainty
in advance Of their movement. and
which, if they have any fitness fol
their work, they must have consider
ell beforehand, what will it imply Z
1t will imply that all future resorts to
violence are not to be countcnance(l
and that the South must contile in
legal remedies, consoling itself with
patience end forbearance. This lat.
ter policy we have steadily advised.
We prefer to advise it now. But, il
We are to act on a different line, let
US act together, forcing the North to
rcconQuer us and give us a military
government, or else to do us justice.
The Government we have is q farce.
The whole South prefers an empire,
a king; therefore, let us, if VIC are
going to be governed by peaceful
suggestions, compel the North, by a
state of war which it's whole energies
will be required to suppress, to
change its form of government T; to
hold the South as vanquishcd pro-
vince; to relinquish the revenues
drawn from our prosperity, and to
turn US over to the negroes, bag and
baggage, body and breeches. Let Us
crush out the miserable lie which
Radicalism keeps before the country.
Else, let the marplots and the theo-
rists, who will do nothing but thwart
the efforts Of those who seek q diff
ferent aud peaceful avenue of escape
through nationality and reconcilia.
ton, forever hold their peace. Let
us do the one thing or tho other, fight
out Of the fryiug-pan into the fire,
or quench the fires of civil war by
tho process consistently advocated in
these columns, the process of making
friends abroad and of keeping the
peace at home, of dividing the Radi-
calls and uniting the conservatism Of
tho country upon q sound, national
and rational basis of pacifcation and
reunion. :
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