The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1874-10-10
NATCHITOCHES, LOUISIANA, OCTOBER TO- 1874

item of news was found the President,
attention was called to it. Sometimes
he considered it of sufficient impor.
lance to br worth reading, and some.
times he didn't. His manner of expres.
sing himself when the news of upris.
ing was brought to him plainly showed
that he had no idea OF the desperate
feeling throughout the State. On the
previous night he had tarried long al
the wine bottles of the Affects and he
found it almost impossible to com.
prehend the situation. We have very
serious doubts whether the President
has any clear ideas with reference ia
the situation in any portion of the
South. If lie has, why did he place
the whole matter Of sending troops
South in the hands of Williams ?
The New York Times; organ Of
the administration, thus briefly out.
lies tho situation in Louisiana
There is open instruction in a
State, blood has already been shed,
the recognized State government has
been over turned by an armed mob,
and If the Federal power does not in-
tertere, utter anarchy will very soon
prevail. These are the facts, naked
ly statel-but how much there is to
modify these tacts i! The people who
have risen against the State govern
ment have been ruthlessly plunderetl
and oppressed the governor who
was turned out has abused his office,
and the State government which has
temporarily been upset was a disgrace
to tho whole country. If we admit
one set of facts, We must admit the
other also. No man can honestly sur
wy the condition of affairs without
out disgust. The spectacle of United
States troops being sent to New Or
leans to restore the Kellogg gang to
power may be pleasing to some peo-
pie, but the general public can only
look upon it with regret.
We tind in the New Orleans Bulle-
tin the following extracts from the
Brooklyn Eagle, which claims to have
the largest circulation of any journal
in the United States:
The lawfully elected officials of
Louisiana have forestalled tho pur-
poses Of the oppressors of their State.
They have turned over to the regular
army officers, the buildings, arms and
effects wrung from the usurpcrs, aud
they have tbereupon retired from
power, leaving the State in military
hands. 1t now devolves on the arms
officers to do that for which they were
sent-which is themselves to reinstate
the Kellogg crew Of pirates in place.
That is a work which by analogy ex.
actly revcrses the least savory occu
patton Of a scavenger. As it was
plain that the movement" was fol
effect only on the moral sentiment OF
tie country, and that it was devoid
of any chance for practical success,
owing to the Identification of Grant
himself with the worst of villainies in
the State, so does it become equally
plain that the moral sentiment of thu
country has been profoundly touched
BY the movement from inception to
collapse. We think the abductors Of
Charlie Ross are more charitably and
tenderly discussed this day than is
the administration, which is le-en-
thralling Louisiana, even in the minds
Of the men who raised it to power.
All tho world sees it in its unrelieved
hideousness. All the world knows
that Grant is wrong and Louisiana ia
right, aud we are willing to let that
knowledge work out it's results.
As for the miserable cravens, rob-
bers, swashbucklers and chawbacons
"reinstated" in power, they raise to
the bottom of no persons contempt.
The "organs" which approve of their
restoration hold their noses as the
gang emerge from their holes and
pass again to power. If they do not
find their heads in ono county and
their boots in another before long,
the most "loil" shrieker, who is not q
rascal at heart, will himself be- tlisap.
pointed. The Louisianians endured
with patience, uprose with courage
and brilliant audacity, arranged their
true government with models ration and
honor, and succumbed to Federal
brutality with dignity. Their moral
victory over their despots is an al
most sublime spectacle, and Lee was
better off at Appomattox than his
captor is this day, lighting his cigar
at the pyre of q State. 1t becomes
more than doubtful whether even
Grant can, stomach his partners down
there, and his assurance Of infamy
fer continuing in the wrong, because
he started in it, is one Of the certain
ties Of history already. a
"A clergyman, who owned a farm,
found his ploughman sitting on biz
piow, resting his horse. Quoth the
clergyman: "John, wouldn't it be a
good plan for you to have q good
stub. scythe here and be cutting q few