The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1874-10-24
The Colored People and the
White Radical.

There is q very significant and in,
structive lesson to b. found in til,
discords and feuds now breaking 0u>
among the Republicans everywhere
within the State. The recent faction
riots in St. James and Plaquemin,
are only straws. The great wind hal
blown them to US as evidences Ut itt
power and direction.
Plainly the crisis We have all fore
seen and anticipated is approaching
lfnot actually at hand. The igno'
rance and credulity and prejudice BY
means Of which q mere handful u
white Adventures have arrayed the
colored people in blind and bitter hos.
Utility to us, noderates under the in
fluences of time and experience Com.
mon misfortune, tho stern arguments
of poverty, lack Of employment, gaunt
and visible depression, threatening
ruin-these have touched the negro
AZ no words or protestations ever did ;
taught him the folly of the course he
is pursuing: warned him Of the cer-
tain result thereof. Perhaps tho pro
cess of the awakening was quickened
more than We suspect by the 18th d
September. 1t must have been q Sc
l'ious appeal to thee colorel peoples
better sense to find, after 90 many
years of fear and suspicion, that
the whites, flushed with victory and
unrestrained in their power for good
or evil, manifested not the slightest
enmity towards them I; developed
none Of those murderous and revenge.
full instincts which they have been
taught to believe were latent an only
awaiting an opportunity for display
One cannot we'll doubt that the con.
viction growing cut of this testimony
did much to vitalize. the discomfort
felt BY the colored people with their
pretended friends and self-imposed
rulers. They had taken up these
men because they were persuaded it
was necessary in order to preserve
themselves and perpetuate the pri-
leges accruiog from the war; yet
here, by one supreme fash of truth
and enlightenment, they found they
had been falsely persuaded, aud that
the danger they were guarding against
so painfully had no existence save In
the carpet bagger's unclean fancy.
=, 1t ssens like magic, the sudden oat-
cropping Of Independence and rebel
lion among the negroes in half the
parishes Of tile State !; and like poetic
justice, the carpet. bsggers growl and
menace, which keeps even pace every.
where with that outeroppiug. Color
ed John Gair cheated and sold out By
carpet bag Weber, in Point Coupee !;
colOred Dave Young. beaten and
swindled by carpet-bag George Ben
ham, in Concordia while, here in
New. Orleans, the colored men
James H. Ingraham and F. c.. Antoine
are kicked out of office ten hours
after signing q protest against the
neglect aud indignity heaped upon
their people by the Kellogg admins
traitor. The colored man begins to
show his manhood and intelligence !;
the csrpet-bagger begins to show his
teeth. Cajolery is TO be followed by
hard blows; flattery and deception
give way to force and compulsion.
Tho wolf drops his masqueradiDg
fleece and the negro must. grapple
with or submit to the enemy thus re-
vealed.
Aud here, to day, the situation
crystalises." A Republican Conven-
ton meets to nominatea parish ticket.
Nine.tenths Of the delegates are COL
ored-a fair arrangement. justly re.
presenting the colored strength in the
party I; and they find slate already
prepared fot them by their white COL
Out 81 ten ' on that cut and dried
list Of candidates, two are colored.
The others are white men, not white
men famed for deeds of friendship
and benefit to the negro, but white
men who suit the ring some Of them
sf6ce holders BY Democratic favor;
This ticket has been dictated to these
colored delegates, and, it 10 generally
believed, would have been endorsed
Yesterday. had thA Convention GOT IN