The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1875-06-19
The Era Of Good Feeling.


the favorable consideration of any
respectable body of our white citi-
Gems, will never be considered as re-.
quiring at their hand any sacrifice
to remunerate. The party that has
held power here for the past eight
years, will ever he regarded with hor-
ror, and the memory of the War
mouth and Kellogg officials will re-
visit the minds of the intelligent and
virtuons citizen, only as that of ri.
lers, who, through the epoch Of 1867
rs, were the toadstool offspring of
reconstruction; the willing tools
of as vile an administration as has
existed in any civilized Countrywide
rule of England over Ireland, or Rus
STA over Poland not excepted. That
this party, reeking with foul corrup-
ton; its hands red with the blood of
our brethren; it's pockets still filed
with unexecutcd warrants for the ar.
! rest of innocent white citizens, should
ever meet with counteDance and good
feeling from US, is preposterous to
suppose. The "cra of good feeling"
of which the pap-fel press of Louisi-
ana prate SO feelinsly, does not ex-
tend its charitable benefits to the
horde Of carpct-bag and scallawag
bummers that have infested tho South,
| with path more destructive than the
Egyptian locust; the soldiers of the
Union and Confedcracy during the
late war, are making up"-burying
the bloody record IF the war that
the radical politicians, both North
and South, arc for ever harping on {;
We have no feelings against those
brave men, nor they against US, that
We cannot mutually expungc-bat, to
the tlieving republicans Of the South,
We offer no right hand Of forgiveness
or fellow. sAip-th they, that in the hour
of peace, under cover Of the villain
Gus enactments Of vile Congress
representing t1le bigotry, selhsl'ness
and blood-thirsty puritans Of the
North, erept into the temple Of our
! liberties and backed by the Federal
armies, dispoiled as Of homes aud
frecdom-lnsulted our manhood and
Intelligence and murdered our PEG.
ple-.for these men there is no era of
good feeling.
Their press and orators may cry
and preach the "return Of brotbcr)y
love-" but they feel and know IN :l1eir
"heart Of hearts," that with the re-
turn of that ''rosc tinte,l' feeling, they
and this arc doomed-loomed to
eternal oblo1uy aud degradation
doomed to crawl through an otherwise
happy and contented people, shun.
| ned and loathed by all that is good
! and honorable--dying as a thief and
a villain, the sins of their lives, will be
visited on their children, who will
walk the streets of our cities and villa.
ges only to be pointed out rs the Off
spring ola carpet-bagger or a scala.
wag-synonymous terms for a thief
and q traitor.
The anxiety manifested by the rad
ical press of Louisiana for q friend.
" chat" and a "social good feeling"
with the honest white masses of our
State, can he marked each day, and
not with surprise to US. Our people,
thank God, have not forgotten the
glories of their fallen friends in the
long years since ]8G7-years marked
by robbery, rapine and mu,der-the
cry of outraged women still echo
from the plains Of Colfax-the re.
vealed plot to murder our fair daugh-
ters at the ball at Coushatta, still
lives in our memories, and the stones
of the streets of New Orleans have
not yet drank dry the blood Of the
heroes of tho 14th September this is
Your "blood record" not half told, 80
miserable radical varlets of Louisiana
and you-you ask us to inaagarate
,cith yoa az era Of good feeling. Look
at your dishonest deeds; your out.
RACES upon our rights, our liberties
we still hear tho clank of the cavalry
sabers of Merrill's mob, to whom
Tarlton 10 his palmy days was a
saint-the abandoned fields and homes
of our people-their firesides the
roost Of bats and owls; the decayed,
dead commerce of New Orleans, ,cith
ito thousands Of starving white citi.
zens, the broken levees Of the Mis-
sissippi making lakes and lagoons of
farms that once blossomed as the
rosc-your eight per cent rates Of
taxation and your millions Of public
debt piled mountain high upon the
suffering backs Of o poverty stricken