The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1874-10-03
Tie Situation.

Of the peoples forces have yielded to
the appearance of the Federal army,
or q small portion of it we should
say, and having given up the State
house to Col. Brooke, who returns it
to Kellogg, and that individual FAC
cepts' We are constrained t0 ask ;
what is the condition in which we are
placed by these events? Are we
bound by the surrender thus made 7
In other words, is the redemption or
attempted redemption Of our beloved
State by the means and in the man
ner inaugurated and set forth by the
citizens of Natchitochcs in June last,
to cease. We have anxiously looked
to our supporting Journals for some
inkling of y we'll defined and stable
policy by which some good and per-
mancnt results might accrue to our
people, and we have failed thus far
to discern even u shadow of sound
advice. What tho Bulletin may say
of the latitude of the country par
ishcs," or the Shreveport Times re-
marks of "what shall VIC do," in no
way apply to the situation, and gives
the people no thread whereby they
may be rescued from the mazcs of the
seeming incxtricable confusion the
action Of our New Orleans citizens
have placed them.
The Couyiey-,Journo of Louisville,
comes to the rescue to late, it is true,
to benefit those to whom it is par
ticnlarly addressed, in an article in
its issue Of the 18th ult., upon the
crisis, but it can be acted upon by us,
and of which VIC give extracts ap-
pended.
Before our readers enter at length
into the gist Of the article, we beg
leave to state that candor compels us
to classify ourselves with those whom
that journal pronoupces "marploters,' y
and We hope we will DC excused il
We call the attention of our able con-
temporary to the fact that in it's H.
lustration of the situation We occupy
in the "Fire and Frying pan" smile,
a very close proximity to the bottom
Of the pan. 1t may be, and no doubt
u.s.. all we'll enough for that journal to
advise illegal remedies" and advocate
our consoling ourselves with "patience
and fortitude," but we are in situa-
ton similar to the Frogs in the Fable
The advise is all very well-good,
but unless the boys are kept from
pelting US, we cannot see why We are
to be blamed for occasionally dodg.
ing. The fact of the business is, the
Courier-Journal does not understand
our situation. Although a South
ern State and subject to the influence
of tile sectional Constitutional Amend
mcnts aud partizan laws passed and
enforced by the bisoted Radical Con-
gress and administration, Kentucky
has had the benefit Of a conservative
construction of these laws and amend
ments, and they have been admins
tered by honest officials with an eye
single to the welfare of the whole
people. With us the opposite has
been the case. The native intelligent
citizens of Louisiana, have been de-
barred from participating in the af-
fairs Of our local government, and
all legislation has been to the end
that wo might be robbed, and all
justice exerted only to protect our
dispoilers. Vthepeople Of any Coun.
ty IN Kentucky acre compelled as we
have been, to pay 8 per cent Taxes,
and that for no purpose except the fees
and salaries efoticials, We venture to
say the Courier-Journal would be the
head centre of "marplots aud theo-
rists." 1t is all very we'll for those
journals to "theorize" on the situa-
ton when they have none Of the
burdens to bear. We are anxious
and willing, more so, we venture to
say, than any outside parties, for a
solution Of the difficulties under
which wo labor, but we are in no
condition to wait years, and the slow
returning sense of the Northern PEG.
pie; because by that time we would