The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1874-07-11
Celebration of the Fourth by
the Radicals.

VI ucSlOco NuN uOyo' NNS HCAU !" OuA
city on the 4th, ostensibly to cele'
brate the anniversary oftle day upon
which our forefathers issued that i'm
mortal Declaration, but which turned
out to be a meeting to give vent to
personal abuse of our white citizens
apd tax payers, and such honest gen
t1cmcn of tho Republican party as
wcro lending aid to the Reform AS
ISOLATION. Each ono of the immacu-
late thieves from Myers to Hornsby,
were culogizel and gently "white
wasl,ed.' The action of our honest
people denounced as a movement
inauguratcd by individuals for per-
sonal ends. 1t was not our fortune
to attend, but from gentlemen who
were entertained with the display Of
Wcbstcricn logic and cloQuence, we
were pretty we'll posted.
W. II. Tunnard the apient editor
of the official Journal of the "gang,"
led off in his usual rambling and milk
and water style; his poor ctfasion
amounting simply to what he is, moth
ing. He was followed in order by
Blunt, Lewis, Redmond, Boullt, Bre-
la, T.. l.. Person, and the orations were
capped by a burst Of elo4uencc from
that sublime BLACKBOARD, J. Il. Horns
by.
Blunt, the dusky Senator and School
Fund manipulation, seemed to tiptoe
himself and in his allusions to state
mcnts made against him in the Yin
dicator, in relation to his drawing one
hundred dollars as the principal Of
the colored Academy, and employing
an assistant to do the work for thirty
dollars, grew particularly pathetic
and denounced the expression con-
tanned in that article as false, in that
he gave the assistant fifty, and as the
Republican in its philanthropy puts
it, "the gift Of one kind heart to an-
other"
This reminds us Of u little joke, rs
the lamented Lincoln would say {:
During the Greek war, Simon Suggs,
q character that has been rendered
immortal by joins Hooper, established
a scamp" at one of the cross road
doggeries found so often in those days,
in Taledega county Alabama, his
command was pretended to be 4 body
to protect the "wimmin' and children
from the ''hostile SAVAGE and was
said to 10 composed Of forty stall
wart mountain sons of that coun-
ty. Their "bloody experience" has
never been recorded, and their "san-
culinary raids upon the wagons en-
ployed in hauling supplies from We
tumpka and other places, for bacon,
-four and other produce, led to the
bands being called the forty thieves.
After peace had smiled once more, he
was charged with having command Of
those 'Spartan heroes" so denomina-
ted; at which Suggs took umbrage.
What, says he, "is this the gratitude
ofmy countrymen," is this the thanks
we receive for our ilisintcrcsted con.
duct in standing as wall Of fire be-
tween our homes and the "inimy."
10 be called a band of "forty thieves"
l denounce it as a d-m lie; for there
'serer wus but Mirty-ninc Of as.
The ide- ah-the "sable man of the
Senate does not deny that he receives
a hunded dollars, but he denies that
he gives his teacher $50, "its false, l
girc her $50"
And mark you that insolence, to
which We called the attention of our
people some weeks since, and which
the journal also INDUCES in, which
he demands with what right have
We or any one else to interfere will,
his private AFFAIRS" His private af-
fairs, Ye Gods! does he denominate
the steal Of $40 or even $50 from the
public School Fund, as ''his private
business did any ono ever sec such
brazen arrogance. No Mr(7) Blunt,
this is no "private affair" as you will
find out to your cost before you are
done with the white people, and IN
less you assume an entirely different
line of conduct from that on the
Fourth, you will find yourself in a
condition where your empty pated,
loud-mouthed believing, will do You
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