The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1874-09-19
Let US have Peace.

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isiana, is truly alarming to those of
sensitive nerves, and well calculated
to make strangers imagine that some
awful aud untold evil was about to
betall the Republican negroes in this
section of country.
North Louisiana is tho rccepticlo
of the choice language of these viii
Ion bohemians, and if any thing is
to bc proven by words, we mnst be a
sorry set of cut threats indeed.
In all this storm of abuse, of Will
fcation, we are unmovcd, for we pos
scss the conscience of innocence. It
is the same old story, the out-crop of
this long fell and bitter hatred Of the
bluo.noscd Yankee, to the more warm
bloolcd southern citizen. We have
heard the can't and cry so often in
our lives, that we are not ut all STAR
tied or alarmed at it. But We con-
tend it would be better that our peo-
pic should understand that we are to
be held as un(0ryircn for all time.--
That the northern mind is not purg-
ed of this enmity towards us-tllat
We must he kept down-mailc to
bow unwilling or not, to the yoke of
such government as may he chosen
by them to rule over us, to insure
this, which to them, they construe into
a matter Of duty, our homes must
needs be made lesolate, our fields be-
come barren wastes ami our very
lives, but the cheap privilege to
breath and move.
AS long as We remain like the alb
jcct slave, supinely quiet, and allow
the thieving hordcs who emmigrate
under cover of the guns Of the fede.
raj armies to our midst, to plnnder
and rob us at will; "all is quiet in
the South" and Reconstruction
goes on well. But should we attempt
to assert orr manhood, then the cry
goes up of the second rebellion" the
South is at ''its old work." and all
such stories that are eagerly graspel
by mind willing to believe anything
against, and nothing for us; minds
fed and nurturel in malice and h.-
tired towards all mankind, who may
differ with them in matters Of socie-
ty, religion, or politics. We realize
and feel the same spirit that led
Cromwell and his crop-eared dema-
gogues, to pull down and destroy the
pride and glory Of the English ca.
walters. We see men who would des-
troy science, art and literature, with
the fawning cry of "Reform in Lib
erty of opinion" There is in the or
der Of nature a point beyond which
forbearapce mnst cease to he a vir-
tue, and we of the South have well
nigh reached that state. The worm
will turn and sting when trod upon
Let US then have q fair understand.
ing with our Yankee brethren. It is
far better not only for ourselves, but
for coming generations, that an end
should be put to this "half and half
liberty, do|ed ont tn rs by the stint.
ling hand Of a cowardly set of DIES,
potic fanatics. Let US now under.
stand fully the condition We are held
in by the North; those people al,
though fully aware of the enormity
of the ou:rages under which We have
to this time patiently suffered, and
simply because they themselves II
the plentithde Of their mercy promised
to SEQ us righted if We would-al.
though they know We are now at thu
verge Of the precipice, and make the
last stand in a fight Of civilization
against barbarism a barbarism lei
on by brutal, characterless gang o.
rapacions individuals from their owr
shores; they hare chosen to cast side.
'cim the negro against their omn colo,
and their o'rn blood. \We, of Louis
lana, are not alarmed at your mar.
shalling Of armed hosts, her sons
have faced steel and snielled powder
too often to be frightened or intimi.
dated at the display Of a regiment Of
so Of puppet soldiery. They can use
them for what purpose they may
elect, but remember we have given
them fair warning, we wash our llande
'of all responsibility in the contest
We value peace, but We value liberty
more, our homes, our rights are more