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

make reconstruction Il sad and weary
labor. Let him give tho freemen Of
Louisiana freeman's right in the
choice OF his rulers. And having
done this let him throw the weight
Of his office and his name in favor of
a notionai convention of peace and
reconstruction, representing all the
States, to assemble in our centennial
year, to consider the grave and burn-
ing problems resulting from tho war,
which have brought US scandal in
Louisiana, that may tomorrow bring
US scandals in Wisconsin, California
and Observation-Disclosures of re.
construction, rights of labor, race,
railway and class monopolies, State
rights and finance. We cannot it,
more these problems. We cannot set
tie them by the sword. The revolu-
ton in Louisiana is only a despairipg
prayer for their settlement. Public
opinion points the way, and it is for
the President to lead it.-N. y.
Herald.
The people of Louisiana have, BY
their prompt submission to Federal
authority, atoned for the PREVIOUS act
of revolution. \ The revolu.
ZIONIST have disbanded and surrender.
ed everything. But Kellogg knows,
rs all the world does, that the people
of Louisiana, rs one man, demand
that he shall vacate the office which
he has never held b. right.
If William Pitt Kellogg will not, of
his own volition, resign the guber-
Material Office of Louisiana, be should
be compelled to do 80 by the force of
pubic opinion North and South. For
years upon years the Enquirer stood
in the front rank Of those journals
which led public opinion in civiliza-
TONS crusade against black slavery,
and while it fought, as we'll as it knew
how, against that monstrous wrong
against humanity, it is now As strong
ly opposed to white slavery.
may be essential, and it would
seem to be essential, in order that tho
forms of law may I've duly respected,
that Kellogg and his horde Of politi.
cal adventures should be reinstated
in office. But that being done there
can be no doubt entertained by any
unpejudiced or honest mind that he
and they should he forced by public
opinion to resign their places, and
that the McEuery government should
be invited to assume the office to
which the people Of Louisiana called
t'lem.-Philaelel'hia Enquirer, (Rad.)
The wrongs the Louisianians suffer
are and have been such as would
have stung any other people to fren-
~ long ago. Lamp posts in New
York would be as thick with corpses
as Jersey pine trees with crows, had
our people an experience one.half so
bitter as the people of Louisiana have.
Brooklyn Eagle, Rep.) a
We must confess that the political
prospects of Louisiana are dark. Two
years more Of Kellogg's rule, judging
from the past, will leave the entire
property of the State in the hands of
the tax collectors, the proper remedy
and the only remedy, likely to I've at
all satisfactory i'll its results seems to
be a fair unfettered expression of the
popular will of the electors Of Louis
lana at the ballot.box. Anything
short of that is mere patchwork. The
power of the United States from time
to time supprcsses the hostility to
Kellogg, but it fails to extiuguish it.
Every now and then the United States
army is required to go down to Louis
lana and set Kellogg, like q child
learning to walk, on his feet. As
soon as the Federal power is with.
drawn, down he goes. In CONVERSE
ton yesterday he said that the out.
break of Monday was due to the with.
drawal of the United States troops.
What kind of a civil government is
that which goes to pieces rs soon as
the army Of the United States marches
around the corner I
Our neighbors Of Philadelphia are
to he congratulated on tho spectacle
which Louisiana promises to furnish
for the "Great International EXPOSE
ton" with which they have decided
to celebrate the close of the first hun.
dred years of our national existence.
1t would be notifying enough, We
should imagine, for the people Of the
United States to look one another in
the face on that occasion, and remem.
Der Louisiana, and not Louisiana
only but 4 large majority Of the
Southern States. We are bound, how
ever, to have our fashionable friends
from over the ocean present with Us
also, and q very pleasant meeting We
shall all have together, no doubt.
Evening Post, moderate republican,
The Worcester (Massachusetts) Press
thus alludcs to one of Grants little
weaknesses
The fact that'the revolters of New
Orleans limited to President Grant
that he did't understand the situation
in Louisiana has been made the sub
iect of considerable merriment. Let