The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1874-12-19
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ly said, that the army that depends for
success upon the blunders its OPP
ponent a.ay commit, is reduced to dire
extremity ; indeed, the chances are a
hundred to one that the opponent
does not blunder-how much are these
chances increased, when the Republic
can leaders SO wisely ~ assume a
plan, We must necessarily follow, that
the apple Of success may drop in
their outstretched and eager hands.
We are constrained to believe that
this labored effort on the part Of the
Tribune, to show that the Democrats
intend to push the State rights doc
trins to radical extremes, is not so
real As it seems. The question of the
"pecuniary recognition" Of the re-
belliou is not the arrow the Republic
can partisan fear, but that which re-
mains in the culver; the recognition
of the PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT
for which the South contended strip
ped of the thin gauzs Of "freedom to
the slave" with which the Radical
leaders have 80 far enleavorcd to
cover tho naked deformity Of their
unjust war upon US, is what the
Tribune fears will reach the vitals OF
its party through tho broken meshes
Of it's sauctimouious covering.
The Southern people yield to none
in their aAherance to the PRINCIPLES
Of the Union. We were uot Secs
sionists for the purpose Of being dis
organizers, but because tho dominant
aud sectional party were opposed tu
that construction If tho constitution
that its verbage demanded aud its let.
ter aud spirit required; aud W. are
we'll content that even ut this late
day, the Northern people should ad-
NIT that We were fright, but they
stronger" and that they should verify
the expression of our great leader,
"that the principles for which We
contended we're eternal and were
bound to reassert themselves at 10
distant day. Our ideas Of policy in
the conduct Of government are at op-
posite extremes to that Of the Tribune
people; VIC consider that protection
to the life, liberty and property Of a
citizen, are questions of paramount
consideration to that of high Tariff,
protected and fostered monopolies-
shinplaster money, and the cringing
demands of lucre for a dashed back, a
murdered subject, or an insulted flag ;
dignity measured by dimes, is a hide
Gus deformity in responsibility We
cannot lend ourselves to. ..,v.
Parties that control governments to
the end that benefits accrue to the
greatest number governed, will al
ways retain tho confidence of the
masses; that the Radical party has
failed, aud that most signally, to meet
this requirement, the judgment pass
ed upon it on the Sd November last,
amply demonstrates. Speaking from
Southern stand-point, We are az
willing to allow the acts and sius Of
tue Republican party against free
government and civilization, to be
buried in as deep oblivion as the war
oftlle rebellion. They were twin sis-
ters Of iniquity upon principles, and
the future greatness Of our. common
country, the welfare Of our posterity,
i'nperative'y demand that they should
be erailicated from the American
heart, erased from the tablet of our
memory. Looking only to the future,
each citizen should strive to make
both his private and public acts re-
dound to the glory and advancement
Of his State and tho Union. This is
what policy demands-what civlliza-
ton demands, and what christian en-
lightenment requires-what the NHb.
~ne and its followers think Of, or how
they intend to act in tho matter,
amounts to but little. The States Of
this Union are the CREATORS, the ma
tional government but the Creature
what legislation is for the good and
benefit of one must rebound to the
greatness Of the other. Centraliza-
ton is incompatible with liberty, aud
the "Corner Stone" Of Democracy the
Sovereignty of States underlies the
whole structure Of our Government.
Destroy that, and you but rear in it,
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