The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1875-03-06
It was a Delusion and a Snare.


which has been held up to US for the !
last three weeks, as the best and most
mastery ftroko of policy which could
have been designed for the adjust
ment of our political troubles in Lou
isiana, is now dead and buried for
ever. The death blow has been CIV
en- it by tho parties who gave it birth.
We have always contendcd, in sub
stance, that it was intended to weak
en- our cause before the country that
the originators Of it were not up.
right in their motives; that it was a
dead sea fruit, beautiful, tempting,
and lnscious in appearance, but that
it would turn into ashes in our months,
the moment we attempted to partake
of it. We have always warned our
people against it, and implored them
to be cautious whenever they dealt
with the enemy, and not suffer them
selves ''to be betrayed with q kiss"
The result has proved that We had
forcseen what would be the conse-
quences, if our people would aban-
don their vantage ground and sur
render themselves disarmed, with
their hands and feet bound, to the
enemy. Read the majority and mi
nority reports Of the sub Committee,
to Congress it is conceded by both,
that tho Conservatives carried the
election in 1874, and that there was a
! fraud in the illegal conduct Of the
returning board. Yes, says Messrs.
Foster, Phelps, Potter and Marshall,
Eve understand the committee to be
unanimous 10 finding the fact that the
action of tho returning board has
defeated the .cill Of the people as e.
pressed by them at the polls, o" the
3rd of Norember, ls74.' They further
say: The registration was incorrect.
and exceeded tho true colored vote {;
it was wholly in the hands Of the
Kellogg officials, Will, United States
Marshal Packard, at their head; that
republican Supervisors Of Registra-
ton complained of unfair and insult
ficent registration, in only three par
isles that the conservatives speci-
fed ,cith proof, that there were 5,200
cases of conceded false registration,
in New Orleans alone that the cen
sus Of 1870, the correctness ofwhicl'
is not impeached, showed 67,N6
whites, and s6,9l3 colorea males ever
twenty-ene years Of age; that stats
tics and evidence before them, show.
ed no change in this proportion in
favor of colored voters, and yet the
registration Of colored voters exceed
ed by 1000 the total number of col0red
adaN males returned by the census,
while the registration Of white uote,ts
was 10000 less. The minority report
has not attempted to deny those
facts, partisan and bitter as they are
towards the people Of Louisiana
They would certainly have done 81
lift they could have had, even the slight
est ground Of a plausible showing in
their favor. But they did not, hence,
they stand before the world a self.
condemned trio, Of dishonest, preju.
diced and vicious supporters of the
unjustifiable, brutal, armed interfer-
ence of tho administration in the af.
fairs of our State.
Now, We ask, in the name Of truth
and decency, what becomes Of the
yelping radical cries of intimidation
and violence, on the part Of conser.
vatives, before, and at tho time o.
registration; in the interim between
registration and the election, and on
the day Of electioni How I When
Wherei We, and not they, have q
right to complain of intimidation,
violence and base fraud; because
tho Congressional investigation has
proven, that zoe have been the vic.
tins Of such outrages. This accounts
for the majority Of only 5000 vote,
which we fairly polled at the election
and not ''the Colfax and Coushatta
killing cases, tho circumstances. o.
which are disputed" To argue that
they have changed the result Of the
election throughout the State, is 8
violent assumption, not sustained by
actual facts, "when it is recsllected
that both those parishes elected a full
Kellogg ticket by an increased repub-
lican majority, as not to be received
if any other cause for the vote of the
State can be found" None other ha.
been produced by the radicals, be-
cause they had run out to their CO
ble's end, in the fabrication Of plan.
| sible lies.