The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1874-12-05
Who is Responsible ?

At last the mist has been blown
away, and "tilue, which makes all
things even," has revealed to US the
real authors, the prime movers in the
recent outrages perpe,rated in our
Parish, wherein innocent men We're
dragged from their homes, their bu.
Siness and their families, and sub
jectcd to brutal arrest and outrage
Gus treatment at the hands of such
creatures us Mcintosh aud Stockton.
1t is a serious thing to make un-
founded charges against persons OF
parties, but we know whereof we
speak and are prepared to prove what
we say. But how very serious must
it be to make charges against midi
viduals known by the parties to be per
tectly innocent, and to follow up this
outrage by wholesale dragging to
Cavalry camps by Deputy U. S. Mar.
shals.
Did these men think to intimidatc
our people, to frishten them into sub
mission to the rule Of the "bright
Shining" thieves who have fattenc,l
and grown rich at the expense of the
prosperity of our citizens. Did they
not know, that there are men in our
parish who have lived hours in dan
ger, a moment of which would quake
the pigmy souls from the miserable
carcases of such creatures who were
wont, to daily strut and smile through
our streets. Or did they suppose
that all we had said against them, all
we had done to rid ourselves of their
hated and ruinous government, was
idle wind and vain vauntings, that
like the slave, we would cringe and
crawl when the lash was attempted to
DO applied to us. But they were and
arc woefn)ly mistaken, and as truth,
"though crushed to earth will rise
again." our cause has been vindica.
ted in their overwhelming defeat, and
Notwithstanding past denials the
names of tue instigators become
H. Boul|t, the Prince of
thieves, a man who has lived upon
our people, who has amassed a for.
tune by trickery and fraud, whose
skin is white and whose soul is as
black as midnight, is the man who
furnished the lists Of the persons to
be arrested, and sent them to New
Orleans by that worse than nothing,
individual, "Coley" Pierson. These
charges 'rc make and are prepared to
prore them.
We, and the Nindicator speaks for
the prisoners; do not desire to engage
our people in any strife against this
'.poor old man, but we desire to
show up to the people of this parish
who may have some lingering sym
patty for this publican, how like
Uriah Heap he fawns and strikes.
What ills my countrymen, have we
suffered at the hands of this individ-
ual-our fields have been untitled,
cur homes made desolate, taxes piled
upon us mountain high, immigration
driven from our midst, our presence
been insulted by the sight of such
men as Myers, Breda, pierson, ct CO.
ira all, all the prime friends and co.
adjntors Of this D. H. Boullt-the
destroyer of Judicial Districts and
Police Juries, the violator. Of solemn
compromises, he to-day lives but to
disgrace humanity, whose form he
has been unfortunately vested with.
Boullt was the man who declared
to gentlemen a few days before he
was made to resign, that should harm
befall him "thero would not be ten
bales of cotton raised in this parish,
aye not one, there will not be a gin
house left standing, not even a resi-.
aence, and your women and children
shall be clothed in ig.leaves and live
in bark huts." Citizens of Louisiana
and the Union, you behold now the
man Of all men who has done all to
Dppress and rob our people, the boon
of Devices the burglar,
md Twitchell the thief, the proclaim
cd house burner, the arrester Of in
nocent people; and We would ask you
what fate the mescreant dese rvess
We will answer it for you, we are
The wronged, the oppressed. Let him
|ire his miserable eristance out, shun-
we'd by all that Is rirtuous and good,
and dying, dccend into hell covered pith
the curses of erevv honest man IN 0mr