The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1875-06-19
Republican Mass Meeting next
Saturday.

saturday.
In our issue Of May 18th, in COM
mcnting upon the return Of Blunt
and his proselytes, We predicted that
the universal quiet which has reigned
in old Natchitoches for the past seven
months, the only pcl1o1 of real peace
We have been permitted to enjoy in
almost nine years the good feeling
and understanding existing between
the laborer and his employer; the
happiness and contentment of the
colorcd man, would be rudely bro
ken, and what we then predicted is
about tn be verified.
It may be said that all men are free
and equal before the law, a premise
| We are more than willing to grant;
that these mon being 50 have right
to do rs they please, in which We full.
ly agree also-provide1, that lido as
they please" does not interfere ,riM
tie liberties anil rights Of others. We
have no reason to suppose that at
this early day, when the agricultural
interest upon which all other inter-
est depends, imperatively demands
that the fulIest and closest attention
should be paid 1t, there should exist
a necessity for an organization Of
either the white or black party, and
rs We have said before, it has not been
tie purpose Of tho whites to in any
manner disturb the calm which
wo now enjoy, but, should the negroes
under the leadership of Blunt, who
has called upon his faithful hcnchmen
to assemble with banners, brand and
bow, upon Saturday next, goth inst,
for tho Purpose Of gaining informa.
ton from Blnnt and Rally, of their
acts during tie Bump and Called ses.
sion Of the General Assembly last
Spring, should they, we repeat, elect
to open the campaign of 1876 nor,
necessity, imperative necessity, will
compel Us to promptly meet them.
Tho subterfuge used by this saddle
colored hero is decidedly rich, but is
lacking (by reason Of long and not
at all favorable acquaintance Of the
individuals who make the enuncia.
tion) much Of the talking in quail
ties" to deceive our white citizens.
They have heard his clamors bofore,
from his Fourth JAY Spring speech,
in 1867, in which he advocated the
taking BY force the lands Of the
whites Ivy the negroes, as they had
by their labor made it, 'and for that
reason were entitled to it, down to
his private confab with ward leaders,
in which he evinced his christian az
spirit and holy ~ calling, by recon-
mending the "swinging Of the axe at
the sound Of his church BELL" and
that neither age nor sex was to be
spared by his blood thirsty miscre.
ants-,re are prepared h prove this
awfsl statement If Mr(i) Blunt or his
friends aud supporters desire it.
Blunt lives here by sudrance; he
must be made to understand it. Does
no not know that he returns from
New Orleans with the lies and foul
ISLANDERS there uttered before the
Congressional Committee, not only
against US as q community, but
against named individuals, citizens
as fir above reproach as lie is below
belief. still warm upon his lipsf And
does he imagine that the Matched
compromise was sufficient to grant
him from, our citizens, absolution for
his past sins-sins he is ever ready to
commit with td"fd'l, zeal, when &C.
casion rcquiresi
The white citizens are not at all
disposed to allow Blunt to add public
insult to the injuries he has already
inflicted upon them. No colored man
Of industry, standing or respectable
ty, cares a snap Of the finger what
Blunt or an! one else did in tho Gen.
eral Assembly, and he knows that
this is used only as an excuse to
gather around him nucleus for q
new negro party, with himself as the
shining center piece.
We cannot SEQ what good has ac-
crued to US by the compromise, and
wo arc certain that this organization
of the negrpes BY Blunt, at this early
day, or at any time, vas not part and
parcel Of the 1unwritten" adjustment
with which we were to be afflicted.
Our advice, which We give in all 20
robustness, without Hope, however, it
will be needed, and We might add,
without carving much, whether 1t is
not, is, that Blunt drop this organiza.
ton business stop this political agi.
tation and ,tsume the calling which
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