The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1875-07-03
SANDER.

into contemplated attack upon the
rights of the negro; the conduct Of
certain parties with relation to the
meeting of tho Committee of Seven
ty and the radical mass meeting last
Saturday, is good comment on this.
No one ever dreamed of disturbing
the radicals, aud their action in dis
patching messengers to Merrill, at
Shreveport, for military assistance,
was a piece Of unmitigated SANDER,
manufactured from whole cloth.
The Committee ofSeventy is y bug
bear, at the sound of its name, Ger
tain radical leaders begin to tremble
in their boots-the quake no doubt of
the guilty, aud it is time it should be
known that they are not band of
White Leaguers, or any other po-
litical or war-like organization; for
the benefit of those concerned, we
give a list this week of the members,
with their color and political COM
plexion, and wish in future that all
parties interested should know that
no violence has ever yet been done
or, thought Of even, BY this Com
mittee, or any other peoples Commit
tee in this parish.
As long as Natchitoches parish sub
mitted quietly to be plundered, we
were a reaceable set; vide, the testi-
mony of all radicals before the Con-
gressional Committee; but, the mo-
ment We revolted against 8 per cent
taxes; against $4,000 school funds
being stolen against the rule of the
ignorant and the vicious, we were
outlaws, bandits and all manner Of
vile men, seeking but to slay all the
innocent radicals, who never did harm,
save to steal two or three hundred
thousand dollars from the tax.pay.
ers.
Many of these harmless individuals
firmly believed that the adjustment
was only to give them a perfect right
to return to the fields of their forme,
labors, and renew the old, old game
when they find it will not be submit
ted to-, the howl goes up that thu
Committee of Seventy arc going tt
"break up'' a republican meeting.
Such stuff would be quite amusing
to any other people but ours; w
have been slandered, lied about and
outraged enough already, and d.
not intend to allow it any longer
The Resolutions of the Committee O
Seventy, which we publish to-day
are submitted to the consideration o
all people, and we defy any but tn,
| most pacific construction to be placed
upon a single sentence contained
therein. The tone is firm and manly
and We all intend to give their reso
lutions our undivided support-al
| threats to the contrary.
| 1ne proceedings of the meeting o.
the Committee Of seventy, is publish.
ed elsewhere. We ssqqa Mme4tAb tMssitdefa:
ton of all parties, and especially ID
those who imagined a "large armed
demonstration of whites were coming
to stop the negro or Republican par
ty from assembling"
Why it is, that any authority would
pay the least attention to the com
plants Of the radicals here, We can.
not, of course, know, but one thing
is certain, that We are the only sui.
fercrs. Let us ask Kellogg to put q
stop to the plundering of his horde
in Natchitoches parish, and he is full
of promises to us, but never does
any thing-wheu We take the matter
in hand and do it ourselves, one o.
his little-fry officials can have "mil'
lions Of troops" to protect them
against whom? against people they
are plundering, whose peaceful de-
mands the Governor will not heed
as he is, We suppose, not any Gov
ernor of theirs.
We understand, while in this con
nection, that great stress was made
Of this call for meeting Of the Com
mittee Of Seventy, and troops wer,
applied for to protect the robber,
against q supposedsresistance, on tn,
part Of the robbed.
The time is fast approaching whel
| every person in this State muat tax,
care of himself and cannot have tn,
''strong military" invoked to protec
him from imaginary foes-when tina
time does come, some one, We imag
inc, will sing in a very low key.
We find that the comments Q
the Eastern Democratic press il
not as commendable as it shOuli