The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1874-07-11
What Determination can Do.

Notwithstanding the buster and
blow made by Purson Blunt and his
satellites on the 4th, l4o and behold
the Police Jury does resign Oh the 9th.
Is not this significant? and does it
not show conclusivcly that our chars-
es made in Mass Meeting are true;
that these people have Systematically
robbed us through the corrupt and
ignorant members of this and other Po'
lice Jur;es-tlat these c0wardly
thieves would have. continued their
spoilations unless they had been met,
Just as they rere, and checked in the
manner they were, is demonstrated
beyond 4 doubt by their actions Of
Saturday and Monday.
The white people Of this parish
have at last been made to understand
that the threats of these would be
Hectors, of the invisible power that
backs them up in their wholesale
measures. which are calculated to DIES
troy our liberties and cOntiscate our
property; amounts to nothing. We
desire to say this in addition to our
colorcd citizens, and III it we reflect
but tho opinion Of leading minds,
who have shown themselves to be
the true friends of the colored race
by their acts, that they should not be
led into any movement III opposition
to tie acts or demands of the white
people. No harm is intended you
and none will come, should you con-
duct yourself as your duty requires
you to do.
The Republican party have done all
that they consider themselves requir-
ed to do, aud the United States gov
eminent has lentall the aid it intends
to. You have your freedom, the bal
lot and all the lawful rights which
by legislative enactment appertain to
all classes Of citizens, and you must
win the rest.
The question of your being able to
sustain yourselves as citizens, to un-
dcrstand your duties aud act in &C.
cordance with the spirit and letter Of
the principles and genius Of Republic
can government, is not for their con-
sitleration; if you fail in these re-
quircments, you must 90 to the wall
to an; other class of rnen.
The action of the white people, and
the consequences flowing from such
action, show conclusively what a de-
termined and bold stand will accom-
plish. These scoundrels imagined
that the white people of this parish,
to use the expression Of tho ':Hea'l
Centre" of tile gang, "woull stand
anything"
There is danger in every thing which
is carried to extremes, and in nothing
is that danger more awful than the
retrihution that all long oppressed
people surely take upon those who
have tyranized over them. The his
tory of tho world has no parallel to
the cnormity of the retribution which
the people of France took upon their
oppressors, and theirs was an educa-
ton Of serflom, what then would he
the vengcnce Of people born frcemen.
We call upon our citizens to relax
not one particle Of their vigilance,
nor cease to make demands for our
rights. No majority composed of ig-
uorant, irresponsible parties have the
right, either human or Divine, to tax
and degrade a people possessed of in
telligence and property, it was never
contemplatedin the formation of gov
eminent, that such state of affairs
should exist, and it is expressly i'm
piled by the very spirit upon which
all Republic rests, that when such a
contingency does arise, there is but
ono redress; aud that is an appeal to
the power which gives birth to all
liberty; tho last, the greatest and the
right which man inherits from his
Creator, the appeal to arms. We can
be free in no other way. Ifthe color
ed citizens desires the good Of the
country, the prosperity Of its people
he cannot surely wish to exercise his
right as citizen to such an extent as
would be detrimental to tie property
owner, and such has been his conduct
for the past six years, that all right