The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1875-12-18
The Williamson Movement.

icaI camp show to us no new plans,
rs some would think, bnt simply a
rrrctition Of the old 1872 campaign.
in o,der tO secure a new lease of pow.
er t" the carpct-bag and scalawag
element.
Some IF onr people look upon the
nomination Of Geo. Williamson, ex-
Colonel, Confederate army, to the
position Of Governor, upon the ra1i.
cal ticket next year, as a new depart
IRE on their part. Such, however, ia
not the case, as Il little reflection will
show.
OF Col. Williamson's standing and
qualifications personally, no one can
judge, The fact of his joining the
radical party in Louisiana at this
time, is primo .focia evidence Of his
being zone Of them" in heart and
soul, and what they are, the world
knows, and we can but say that the
person going in with them now, no
matter what he may express Nv his
intentions, or give as his reasons there
for, assumes their past acts to be law
FIJI, just, aud he takes OF must take
his share Of tho responsibility, for
those unconstitutional acts, such az
Durell's order, the consequent use of
troops and the displacing Of the lie.
gal (McEnery) government. following;
he must admit the acts of the return
ing board to be just, and tho conduct
in January, "f the military in over
turning u State government, to he
lawful; u responsibility that neither,
Of the Congressional Committees dar-
ed assume, us even the nd justmeut
tacitly admits.
Personal preferment may actnate
land does no doubt) many men, to do
things their own Judgment must re-
bel against. This talk of going into
the radical camp for the purpose of
assisting the white people has been
the excuse used by all those who have
shifted their positions; have laid
down their principles, since recon
struction first began-but we have
vet to name one that acted in even
one instance, to the end that the
whites would he benefited. On the
contrary, they have in nearly every
instance showed that zeal to their new
masters that has ever marked recent
converts to any cause. They have
been tho most vindictive, the most
partizan of all that noble army (3)
Of thieves who have enriched them.
selves at the expense of the people.
1t is but history, the history Of all
that same class that have existed
since the foundation of human gov.
eminent, being repeated.
Kellogg, in 1872, WAS to have done
for Louisiana just what Williamson
promises, or his clan, for him to do.
Chamberlain was to have done for
South Carolina, what Moses did not
do, and we know too we'll how they
have both fulfilled those promises.
Accepting as fact, that they were
all willing to reform, they are power
less to do so, from the fact that they
arc without assistance. Kellogg has
a. legislators, Warmouth's thieves
Williamson will have the same that
kellogg now has; in fact, the plan is
simply to paint up the old hnlk, and
disguise it with u new figure head.
Williamson, and 60 on as ever. That
is the plot and no one can deny it.
We take, for instance, such materi.
al "a is presented to work up Mr..
Ni,liams"n's ideas of reform, if he
has any, in oar respective commune
ties throughout the State, and we at
once see how utterly vain is the hope
IF relief from them. Take Natchito-
ches, its parish and the district to
which it is attached, rs an example.
Blunt and Twitchel as Senators, and
Pierson and Raby as Representatives,
put an end to all argument in favor
Of hope, from Williamson's anticipa
ted radical State government. The
whites have shown in two elections,
1872 and 1874, that they are perfect.
~ able to carry the State; of their
ability, for government history teach
es us, aud the man who would say
that negroes and thieves can better
govern society than honest, virtuous
and intelligent white men, insults