The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1874-10-31
hes The Welfare Of the People is thes Supreme Law
NATCHITOCHES. LOUISIANA OCTOBER Fl 1914

extortions Of the official plunderers
in this parish. A parisl, tax Of g.
mills was illegally levied and being
collected. There was no relief in thu
courts. The people came togethe,
in mass meeting and the honest in.
dignat'on Of the whole people, black
and wbite-republican and democrat,
put a stop to the wrongs Of which
they complained. 1t was not vio-
lence, disorder, nor lawlessness; it
was tho touch Of honest indignation
and thu will of wronged thousands,
that produced the result. This &C.
ton of our people was sustained even
by the Radical administration itself.
The Auditor said "the parish taxes
are illegal and appalling" Kellogg
SAID ''invcstigate and report, l am sat-
isfied there is wrong up there and the
Auditor made q written report con-
demniug the parochial administration.
Assistant Atty General Dibble said
in an elaborate opinion ''the parish
taxes are illegal and there must be
fraud at the bottom Of it,"
Orders were issued requiring the
collector of taxes to restrict his COL
lections, to the legal rate l4} mills for
any and all parochial purposes. The
Supreme Court said "there had been
great dereliction Of duty on the part
ofparish officers, and that parish Of
ticers paid no attention to the law"
These are the facts connected with
the conduct Of this people during the
past few months and for which they
are now branded as Ku-Klux, White
Leaguers, &C. For this they are to
be arrested, and outraged on the eve
of an election and thus deprived of
their only means Of obtaining an hon.
est parochial government-the ballot.
The charges have been trumped up
without the shadow Of truth or even
plausible pretext. Leading Repubh.
cans here admit that the whole pro-
ceeding Is for political purposes and
an outrage upon all law and justice.
Not only are the white people to Ike
arrested and intimidated, but the nc
groes are to be forced to come out
and vote by threats, and even violence.
Such are some of the outrages
weakly portrayed, that now challenge
our fortitude. More, no doubt, re.
main in store for you. 1t is, in all
human probability the wish and desire
Of the conspiritors that you will, out
of despair, and emarting under the
wrongs and indignities heaped upon
you, resort to resistance even against
the U. S. army In your midst. Such
a collision wonld bs heralded over
the North to stay the tide now set so
strongly against our unfortunate con.
dition. We admonish you to forbear-
ence and fortitade. The great ,Ame-
rican heart is right and your sufferings
and imprisonment will call down
upon the heads Of those that violate
your liberties for political purposes,
the indignation Of the honest masses
of the great States of Pennsylvania
and. New York in November, aud then
the day of your deliverance will surely
come. Let no man fly from the threat.
eued arrests. Abate not q single ef.
fort to. obtain your rights at the
polls. Stand together against this
last assault upon your patriotism aud
manhood, a. you have hitherto stood
against spoliation and robbery, and
you cannot fail of success. The rot
teness Of the party in power in this
State cannot always be supported by
armies, Unity ofpurpose and unity
Of action are now more imperative
than ever before. Lett man fail to
do his whole duty in such a crisis.
.F~ BY order Of the PARISH Ex-
EcUTlvE COMMITTEE. La.'
d. PIERSON.
Chairman.
A respectable" Oswego woman
created quite q sensation in the streets
Of that city the other day by getting
drunk and driving furiously about
town In one horse buggy. She had